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végétaux, ef en sur “s Poirier” in the Mémoires de 
Ulnstitut National a —— s, tom 
eo sasha to a on xesord here L’Héritier’s 
é en adopter de trop mauyais, 
et cela coute lorsqu’on sent la possibilité d’en donner un bon. Je 
ne changerai point les noms donnés dans des ouvrages d’une certaine 
mptent e 
conséquence, en un m S ceux qui comptent 
Bota Mais pour ceux qui ne se trouvent insérés que dans des 
dissertations, ou mémoires académiques, je pen "on peut sans 
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soit dure et barbare et qu elle _ me plaise pas plus quwav 
letters 
relating a the bringing of Dombey s herbarium to this country by 
L’Héritier, of which an account is given in the interesting and 
sonally scigeain ta with to Rees’s Cyclopedia, and in the 
translation ze in a Konig Sims’s Annals of Botany, ii 
he story is too long for transcription ; suffice it to say that 
ombey, w 
not publish any of the results of his travels, except under certain 
conditions, was induced to part with his herbarium to Buffon, who 
in his turn confided it to L’Héritier, with orders Borge its 
contents. ‘‘ This,” says Smith, ‘‘ was no sooner kno 
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liberty and s e, L’heritier remained about 15 months devoted to 
the prosec ae "of his object, chiefly under the hospitable roof of his 
friend, Sir Joseph Banks. 
(To be concluded.) 
SHOR! NOTES. 
CentuncuLus minimus L. 1x Wixts. — This has never been re- 
corded, though it is locally abundant in the south-east of the county. 
I ai found it at (5) Hamptworth Common ; W. Grinstead ; Hound 
» Winterslow; (6) Clarendon Woods. The first- and 
bred stations are nine miles apart.—Epwarp J. Tatum. 
