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Masson died in North America. Mr. James Lee writes from 
аа March 11, 1806, to Sir James Smith (Memoir, vol. ii., 
p. 117 
“We are sorry to have to communicate to you the death of our dear friend 
Masson, who died at Montreal in January last. We lament his fate most sincerely. 
He was "hardly dealt by, in being exposed to the bitter cold of err e in the decline 
f life, after twenty-five years' service in a hot wir eee hie? > ne 
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memorial given of his extreme modesty, good temper, туйме апа tet alsin.” 
Lee returns to the same Ышы. July 9, 1812 (Smith, Memoir, ii., 
p. 183) :— 
“I mentioned to you -— — he had been ill paid, паи what he 
had done for the science of b He explored the Cape of Good Hope twice, 
Madeira, the Can i i j 
West Indies, and Canada. Masson w mper, persevering i 
pursuits even to a great enthusiasm, vt gat кшй у, — is is specitnetis € 
dra of fish, animals, inseets, plants, and views of the countries he armes 
hrough, evince; and though he pas sat a койш life in distant о countries fro 
society, his love of natural history never forsook him. Char s like him iu 
for the present, dwindling in the world, but I trust they will ier 
. He made his second voyage to the Cape, whence he again sent 
numerous plants to Kew M 1786 to s between the time of his 
L'HERITIER. 
L'heritier de Brutelle, a French botanist, came to England in 1786- 
7, and studied the Kew collections, which a pear to have been freely 
placed at his disposal. He published in 1788, in Paris, a large folio 
% Sertum Anglicum, seu plant rariores, nie in hortis juxta Londinum 
* imprimis in horto regio Kewensi excoluntur 
In the preface he says :— 
“ Indefesso — — d plantas delineandas euravi in suo genere 
pretiosissimas, п admiratione, qui et affluenti plantarum 
€opiá et indastrid ç Ee женен — RA non immeritá." 
e describes many of Masson's introductions. .Amongst these may 
be mentioned, Cineraria cruenta, the parent of our garden Cinerarias ; 
the singular үза арке Foot (Tamus Elephantipes) ; and the well- 
no dinis punctata. He also first figures an 
describes D orani har inconspicuus. He mentions its reputed use in 
China for scenting tea, but evidently does not believe it, ард remarks 
i “oqa no inodorus est." L'heritier was assassinated Paris in 
WILLIAM Совветт. 
William Cobbett was at Sere time (about 1773) employed as a 
gardener at Kew. He tells u 
ous түне НЫ ing of box-edges апа w weeding 
beds of flowers in the garden of the Bishop of А-ни. the Castle of 
Farnham, my P dati town. I had siap bum fast beautiful gardens; and a 
