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with those in the herbariums of MM. dc Lamark 

 and de Jussieu. 



The botanists, who have published renogra- 

 phies of genera or families, on consisting the 

 herbal ; were invited by M. Desfontaines to annex 

 the names adopted in their works to tie plants 

 which had not been described : thus many spe- 

 cimens are original types corresponding to the 

 descriptions of M. Decandolle, in the two first 

 volumes of his Regnum V egetabile; of M. Duval 

 in the monography of the solarium; of MM. Bon- 

 pland and Kunth, in that of the melastoma; and 

 of MM.Mertens, Aghart, and Lamouroux, in that 

 of the fuel, etc. 



The herbarium of Vaillant, which wasarranged 

 after the method of Tournefort and shut up in 

 boxes, was of little use, when, in 1797, M. Des- 

 fontaines undertook to reduce it to the natural 

 order, and to insert the other collections of the 

 Museum, viz. that made by Commerson in his 

 voyage round the world, and during his resi- 

 dence in the Isles of France and Bourbon ; that 

 brought by Dombey from Peru and Chili ; the 

 plants of the South Sea Islands, given to Buffon 

 by Forster ; an herbarium sent by Mace from 

 India ; one from Cayenne, by Martin ; one from 

 Madagascar, by Chapelier ; one from St. Thomas 

 and Portorico, by the botanists who accompanied 



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