scuted in an engraving to Cap's popular work, entitled 

 Le Mmce d'Histoire Naturelle, 1854, p. 15. But the plant 

 in question was brought, not from the Holy Land, which 

 indeed Jussieu had never visited, but from England. 



It is also true, that the zeal and self-devotion which the 

 Reviewer erroneously ascribes to Bernard de Jussieu, in 

 preserving the Cedar of Lebanon, was really evinced with 

 regard to another plant, the Coffee, by the individual to 

 whose care it had been confided. 



It appears, that when the French Government wished 

 to introduce the cultivation of Coffee into their West 

 Indian Colonies, they despatched a vessel laden with 

 a few of these plants to Martinique. In the course of 

 a voyage unusually protracted through contrary winds, the 

 crew were all placed upon short allowance, and the Coffee 

 plants in general perished of drought. One, however, 

 was kept alive by the captain, who divided with it the 

 scanty portion of water that fell to his share, and this 

 solitary specimen became the parent of all those now 

 found in the Antilles. 



The name of the captain, M. Declieux, has been per- 

 petuated by the name Declieuxia, given to a genus allied 

 to the Coffee, in remembrance of his services. 



By thus jumbling together these two stories, the Re- 

 viewer would seem to have concocted the anecdote, which 

 has been unwittingly transferred to the jmges of my Essay. 



Page 40. Dr. James Mitchell has published in a distinct 

 pamphlet, a fuller account of the Citrus wood of the an- 

 cieuts, than is given in my Essay. 



Page 50. Cornus mascula is not the Cornel of Eng..sh 

 Botanists, which is Cornus sanyuinea. 



Page 87. A writer in the Ann. of Nat. Hist., suggests 

 that the Lotus of Homer may have been Nitraria tri- 

 dentata, a plant common in Barbary. 



