116 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Lert (Lupovic). La Botanique en Provence au XVIIIe Siecle. 
Pierre Forskal et le Florula estaciensis, Marseille: Bar- 
latier. 1900. Pp. 27. 0. 
——- Indigénat en Provence du Styrax officinal. Pierre Pena et 
Fabri de meets Marseille: Aubertin & Rolle. 1901. 
Pp. 28. 
- La Bo sens en Provence au XVIe Siécle. Louis An- 
OS atiaea <Plarro Belon—Charles de 1’'Escluse—Antoine Con- 
stantin. Marseille: Aubertin & Rolle. 1901. Pp. 195. 8v 
Tur readers of the Journal of Botany are familiar with the 
a ph of the work which is so energetically carried on by 
M. Legré, the earlier issues of these publications having been 
poviawed | in 1899, pp. 88-92, 283; 1900, pp. 43-45. The three 
works named at the head of this article show that the author is 
continuing his enthusiastic researches into the botanic history of 
Provence. 
The first book on our list is of Coe recent date. Pehr 
Forskal, on his eastern journey which w end in his death at 
Jerim in 1768, touched at Marseilles, cae hile waiting for an 
2, So 2 continue his voyage, noted the plants he found at 
L’Estagn mall village on the western side of the bay in which 
PES is i kiakods This list figures as the Florula estaciensis 
of Forskal’s posthumous Flora Aigyptiaco-Arabica, pp. iti-xil 
C 
The account must be as a aona talk to a native of the South of 
France as Kalm’s statements as to the botany of England in 1748, 
when he was on his way to North America, are to English people. 
It may be mentioned in passing, that Linneus seems to have tried 
to preserve the pronunciation of his pupil’s name when establishing 
the genus Forskohlea in 1767, by varying the second vowel of 
Forskal’s name, 
The next work on our list again brings before us the name of 
Pierre Pena, which has been previously rescued by the author from 
the almost complete oblivion into which it had fallen; and also in- 
troduces Nicholas Claude Fabri de Peiresce, the antiquarian, philo- 
logist, and naturalist, whose sear have lately been published 
under the editorial care of M. Tamizey de Larroque in a series of 
volumes. Letters which passed ar hach Clusius—then finally 
settled at Leyden—and vhsigee show not only that Pena was the 
actual discoverer of Styrax officinalis in Provence, but confirm 
several statements sativa to the authorship of certain Rae in 
Pena and Lobel’s A Adversaria. 
enc’ ase of Luigi Agentins his travels, and his 
mio ames to place the store of his information, sO laboriously 
