HISTORY OF THE SCIENCE. 4.69 
C. H. Persoon, born at the Cape of Good Hope, 
now residing at Goeitingen, has paid particular at- 
tention to the study of fune1, and is one of our first 
mycologists. Several of his treatises which contri- 
bute much to the elucidation of his subject, are in- 
serted in Usteri’s annals. One particularly im- 
portant is separately printed*. He has promised a 
larger work on the fungi. | 
Francis Masson, a gardener and zealous botanist. 
The king of Great Britain sent him in 1772 to the 
Cape of Good Hope to collect plants for the botanic 
garden at Kew. He remained there two years and 
a half. After his return he made several botanical 
journeys to the warmer climates at the expence of 
the emperor of Germany, and of the kings of France 
and Spain. He was sent a second, time at the ex- 
pence of England in 1786, to the Cape of Good 
Hope, where he remained ten years, and during this 
long time he made more discoveries than the first 
| i time, 
as now finished, but it will be continued by Mr Wendland 
alone under the title, Hortus Herrenhusanus. It contains 24 
plates, prettily coloured, of new and little known plants. 
Botanische Beobachtungen nebst einigen neuen Gattungen 
und Arten von J.C. Wendland. (Botanical observations, with 
a few new genera and species), Hanover, 1798. fol. with 4 
coloured plates, whic contain very distinct representations of 
33 dissected plants. 
Hijusd. Ericarum icones et descriptiones. Fasc. I. Hano- 
verae. 1795. 4to. ‘This fascicle contains drawings of 6 spe- 
e [3s . ; s ° o . 
cies of heath, very prettily coloured, with a description in 
German, and their characters in Latin. 
Observationes mycologicae, seu descriptiones tam novorum 
quam 
