836 HTSTOKY OF BOTANY. 



Michael Feiix Dunal, professor at Montpellier, cjcamined 

 the genus Solanum ; (Histoire cle Solanum, Montpellier 1813, 

 quarto ; Solanorum Generumque affiniuni synopsis, Mont- 

 pellier 1816, octavo.) 



A complete revision of the Contortae was published by Ro- 

 bert Brown, (Transact. Wern. Soc. vol i. p. 40. s.) ; and ex- 

 cellent monographs of the genus Stapelia have been drawn up 

 by Francis Masson (Stapeliae Novae, London 1796, folio), and 

 by Nicolaus Joseph von Jacquin (Stapeliarum Descriptiones, 

 iconibus ilhistratae^ Vienna 1806, foho.) 



The species of the genus Erica have been described and 

 figured by H. C. Andrews, (Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 

 vol. i. — iii. London 1803 to 1809? folio) ; and by John Chris- 

 topher Wendland, (Ericarum Icones et Descriptiones, fasc. 

 1—17, Hanover 1798 to 1806, quarto.) 



A new tribe of the Compositae was constructed by Marian? 

 Lagasca (Amoenidades Naturales de las Espanas, Orihuela 

 1811, quarto), and by Augustus Pyramus de Candolle, (Ann. 

 du Mus. xix. p. 59. ; Recueil de Mem. sur la Botanique, Pa^ 

 ris 1813, quarto). But Henry Cassini (Journ. de Bot. Nouv. 

 iv. p. 23L s. ; Dictionnaire des Scien. Nat. x. p. 131. s.), and 

 Robert Brown (Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xii. p. 75.) have pub- 

 lished interesting observations on the whole family. 



The Valerianae were examined by P. Dufresne, (Histoire 

 Naturelle de la Famille des Valerianees, Montpellier 1811, 

 quarto.) 



Of the Rubiaceae, the genus Cinchona was described by 

 Aylmer Bourke, (A Description of the Genus Cinchona^ 

 London 1797, quarto.) 



The umbelliferous plants were examined after Peter Cus- 

 son, professor at Montpellier, who died 1783, (Hist, et Mem. 

 de la Soc. Roy. de Medec. 1781, 1782, p. 275.), by George 

 Frederick Hoffman (Genera Umbeliiferarum, ed. nov. Mos- 

 cow 1816, octavo,) and the author of this history, (Plantarum 

 Umbeliiferarum denuo disponendarumProdromus, Halle 1813, 

 octavo ; Species Umbeliiferarum minus cognitas, Halle 1818, 

 quarto.) The genus Eryngium was described by Francis de 

 la Roche, (Eryngiorum Historia, Paris 1808, folio.) 



