M. Labillardiere formed one of a search party and they 

 traced M. Riclie to the shores of a salt lake (Lake Warden 

 presumably— J.H.M.) near Esperance. They finally found 

 him after an absence of 54 hours, and lie had been almost 

 without food, his slender supply being eked out with fruits 

 of the shrub now known as Leucopogon Bichei. It is Bgtmd 

 at t. 3251. 



Riche had lost all his specimens, but Labillardiere made a 

 collection in the search after him, his specimens including 

 Leucopogon Rich ei, Batiksia repens and n'n:- i. < '/lori^ema i'icifolia, 

 Eu-califptux curni'ln and A,uj/<r;a,dhus rufa. 



Labillardiere wrote later that Riche died from consump- 

 tion on his return to Prance, having, while ill, undertaken 

 a long and fatiguing journey in the cause of science. 



Besides the plant referred to, he is commemorated by 

 the genus Ilichca, R.Br., and Craspedia Richea, Cass. 



Ventenat, Etieune Pieire. I cannot find that the com- 

 panion (Louis) of Labillardiere, although a " naturaliste," 

 was a botanist, but Etieune Pierre (1757-1808), librarian 

 of the Pantheon at Paris and member of the National 

 Institute, was author of several works dealing with plants 

 brought home by, or raised from seeds brought home by 

 D'Entrecasteaux' or Baudin's Expeditions. For example: 



" Description des plantes nouvelles cultivees dans le jardin de 

 J. M. Cels. Paris (1800). 4to; (2) Tableau du regne vegetal, etc. 

 Paris (1799). 4 vols. 8vo ; (3) Choix des plantes . . . , dans le 

 jardin de Cels. Paris, 1803, fol.; (4) Jardin de la Malmaison, etc. 

 l'aris, 1803(-4), 2 vols, fol.; (5) Deeas generum novorum aut 



the genus Callitris. 



The following plants bear his name: — 



rhomboidea, Endl. 



