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North America, by his son ; that of the plants of 

 Taurus and Caucasus described by M. Marshall ; 

 that of the plants of France presented by M. de 

 Candolle, which is the type of his French Flora ; 

 and lastly, that presented to the Museum by M. de 

 Humboldt, containing all the species collected in 

 his travels, and published by him in concert with 

 M. Bonpland, in the Equinoxial Plants, and with 

 M. Kunth, in the Nova Genera and Species, etc. 

 The herbarium of Tournefort has been scrupu- 

 lously preserved, from respect to the father of 

 French botany : almost all the plants collected in 

 his voyage to the Levant, which are only indi- 

 cated by a phrase in the Corollarium institutionum 

 Rei herb ar ice , are found in it, labelled by himself, 

 or by Gundelsheimer. 



The species contained in these three collec- 

 tions and wanting in the general herbarium, are 

 at least six thousand, making the whole number 

 more than thirty thousand. It is admitted by 

 botanists, who have visited the principal cabi- 

 nets of natural history in Europe, that there no- 

 where exists so numerous a collection ; and it is 

 daily increasing by the contributions of travellers 

 and by exchanges (1). 



(1) In 1821 were received eight hundred specimens, collected on the 

 borders of the Black Sea by M. d'Urville, who has lately published 

 a catalogue with the synonymes of the species already known, and a 

 description of the rest : one thousand two hundred specimens of plants 



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