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caplaio ftaudin ; one from St. Domingo, presented 

 by M. ?3itcau ; one from Java, given by M. Les- 

 chenauL ; and one from Persia, Egypt, and the 

 Levant, composed by MM. Olivier and Bruguiere, 

 during iheir residence in those countries. 



The numerous species from New Holland have 

 beenadled to the general herbarium; which has 

 been still further enriched by the presents of tra- 

 vellers ind botanists, and principally of Mr. Pto- 

 bert Brown. As it is essential that it should not 

 be too voluminous, the duplicates have been re- 

 served for particular collections; thus we have 

 herbals of New Holland, of Cayenne, of the An- 

 tilles, of the Cape of Good Hope, of India, and of 

 the Mauritius ; which, besides the convenience of 

 studying the plants of a given country, are parti- 

 cularly useful in the composition of monogra- 

 phies. The analysis of the plants in the great 

 herbarium is strictly forbidden, but with the 

 leave of the professor the duplicates may be 

 examined in detail, and they are also given in 

 exchange. 



We have other particular collections from 

 which the duplicates only have been taken for 

 the general herbarium, and which form the type 

 of printed works ; such as that of the elder Mi- 

 chaux, containing the species described in his 

 Flora Boreali- Americana; that of the trees of 



