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of the seaweeds between 1855 and 1865, which he presented 

 to the late Dr. Henri Van Heurck, of Antwerp, when the latter 

 was collecting materials for the preparation of his Prodrome de la 

 Flore des Algues Marines des lies Anglo-Normandes. Of his 

 collection Professor Van Heurck said: — " L'herbier algologique 

 de M. Piquet a ete fait avec grand soin, les localites y sont 

 bien indiquees et on y trouve aussi un certain nombre d'echan- 

 tillons de Mile. White et d'autres collecteurs de Jersey." On the 



local flowering plants and ferns Piquet was the acknowledged 

 authority, and w^as always pleased to accompany the many 

 English botanists who at various times visited the island, and to 

 give them every assistance. There are probably few of them who 

 have not, during the last forty years, secured for their herbaria 

 some of his beautifully prepared specimens. 



In 1896 the Societe Jersiaise, of which Piquet was a member, 

 published his "Phanerogamous Plants and Ferns of Jersey" — a 

 list containing seven hundred and twenty-one species, exclusive of 

 varieties — which was followed in 1898 by a Supplement contain- 

 ing twenty-four species. With regard to the former of these its 

 author stated that he had himself collected all the plants men- 

 tioned therein ; Mr. Lester-Garland thus refers to it in his Flora 

 of the Island of Jersey (London, 1903) : " Mr. Piquet's hst is an 



