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sides near the city, and the aged M. Duby a short distance up on 
the lake. Besides these is a M. Thurie, professor of vegetable 
physiology. The laboratory of the latter has been recently fitted 
The botanical garden, although forming a very pleasant play- 
ground for children and their nurses, is hardly what one would 
expect from a city in which three generations of De Candolles 
have lived. It is whispered that the city government prefers to 
use it as a propagating garden for the supply of the public squares 
and parks. 
In herbaria the city is very rich, there being, at present, three 
distinct large collections; the De Candolle herbarium opposite 
the cathedral; the collection of M. Boissier at his residence ; and 
that of Delessert formerly in Paris. The latter is not yet ar- 
ranged and will be for some time particularly inaccessible. The 
De Candolle herbarium is in two divisions; the first, from which 
the earlier volumes of the Prodromus were written, remains as a 
classic memorial of that work, no additions or alterations mage 
made in it, but all purchases and exchanges are inserted in the 
second herbarium, which contains the materials of the later vol- 
umes. 
The curator of the herbarium is Dr. Miller, whom I found on 
my arrival resting from the fatigue arising from his work on Bra- 
zilian Rubiacez, by devoting himself to his favorites the lichens. 
With his assistance I was enabled to study the lichen flora of Ge- 
neva. This excellent botanist and most amiable man has an ex- 
tensive general knowledge of all branches of botany, and does 
not turn up his nose at the smaller plants as bencath his notice. 
In his knowledge of lichens he has few equals in Europe, although 
most of his time is given to the study of phænogams. e 
Vegeiations-punkt mania does not prevail at Geneva as in Ger- 
many, where it affects many of the younger botanists to such an 
extent that they are quite unfitted for practical work. The — 
Germans are constantly making the mistake that everything mi- 
croscopic is important, in fact more important than anything else. 
The flora of Geneva is exceedingly interesting, the city being 
Situated at a point where a northern and southern flora unite, 
It was too late to study the phenerogams when I arrived, but the 
lichens are always in season. A short hour from the city is 
the Pas de l’Echelle leading to the passage between the Grand 
and Petit Saléve. Here is the original station of a number of 
