LA BOTANIQUE EN PROVENCE 91 
The concluding volume of this series of biographic monographs 
now before us has, like its predecessors, to do with some whose 
a are imperishably enshrined in the annals of the science, and 
ne whose modesty has hitherto hidden him from view, though the 
Slant batted after him Samolus Valerandi, is a fitting memorial to 
a modest student of plants. It is of interest to remark, = the author 
points out, that the two brothers Bauhin were spr ung f rom French 
parents, who left their native country for conscience’ sake, and found 
that security in Switzerland which was wanting to them at Amiens. 
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Caspar was born in the same city. M. Legré then follows the 
career of the elder, and especially the one year which he spent at 
Montpellier: three years later Pena and Lobel traversed the same 
ground, which has become classic from its constant mention in the 
books of the numerous botanists who studied in the same university. 
Many passages are given from the Historia Plantarum, in which 
Bauhin notes the various localities in which he had found plants; 
the three folio volumes with their 8600 pages in double columns 
have been closely scrutinized by tle author—a labour of immense 
much is to be ascribed to his son-in-law, Cherler. The result is, 
that most of the book is the work of Bauhin; his son-in-law is oc- 
casionally revealed by some such sign as the use of ‘Ego ergo 
b ar more frequent to find ‘Tigo Bauhinus” so Rome 
in the text, unmistakably showing whose was the ‘leh 
wrote that portion of the work. The writer of this vast por tebe 
died in 1612, with no prospect of his long labour ever attaining the 
dignity of print; his son-in-law had predeceased him about two 
years before, and it was not till thirty-eight years later—that is, in 
1650—that the first volume issued from the press, under the care 
of Chabrey, and at the expense of Graffenried, who provided the 
40,000 florins requisite to ns ds t. 
Cherler’s life was a short one, and was not marked by the issue 
of any important work of bis own, save only his Sages his 
share in bringing out the Historia Plantarson, as just mentioned, is 
his chief title to “she: Still, M. Legré in his rata peat ae ll 
of that vast work is able to bring out, on the direct statement of his 
father-in- law, the fact that Cherler had botanized in aa ce. 
Following these two notices, the author of the work before us 
who is so well known by his Pinaz, the handbook of reference to pre- 
Linnean botanists, ‘ies gathered plants in Provenc ce, and M. Le egré 
discusses his material in the same method as in the foregoing 
examples. 
The last individual brought forward in this volume is Dourez. 
He was born at Lille, in Flanders; but all details appear to be 
wanting, except that he seems to have been of Spanish descent ; 
in some way he was a connection of the Bauhins, possibly by 
