l64 DESCRIPTION OF THE MUSEUM. 



M. Defontaines contains an exact list of the names 

 and synonymes. 



The plants seen in the middle of the beds 

 without labels, are species lately received and 

 not yet determined, but whose general appear- 

 ance indicates their family and genus. 



To examine the garden in its order we must 

 begin at the western extremity of the beds pa- 

 rallel to the avenue of lime-trees. The plants are 

 disposed in two rows at suitable distances. The 

 first orders, or the fungi, algae, and musci, are 

 suppressed, from the impossibility of cultivating 

 them, and we begin with the ferns, filices, of 

 which there are more than fifty species (i) : next 

 come the naiades, the aro'idea?, the cjperoidew, 

 and the graminece^ which commence towards 

 the end of the first row, and form the second in 

 returning along the other side of the beds : the 

 number of species is about five hundred and forty, 

 three hundred and ten of which are grasses. 

 The greater part of these plants would suffer by 

 intense heat, and are pleased in the shade of the 

 avenue. 



Towards the right, in the angle of the garden 

 near the green-house of Dufay, begin the palms. 



(1) Several of the filices which grow in damp and shady situations 

 soon decay, and as it is difficult to collect the seeds, the species enume- 

 rated in the catalogue are not always found in their places. 



