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of the day. It was embellished with descriptions and figures 
of new plants, and with collections of the names given by 
the writers who preceded him. His zeal, learning, and good 
sense, aided by unwearied industry, contributed greatly to 
the advance of Botany, and was exceeded by none except 
Linnaeus in this department of the science. His book was 
for years considered a standard work, and was constantly 
resorted to by those who wished to become acquainted with 
the characters and habits of the various portions of the 
vegetable world. Forty years were devoted to the com- 
pletion of this publication, and if we wish to ascertain the 
name given by any old writer to a plant, we have only to 
consult Graspard Bauhin, and there it will be easily dis- 
covered. The chief blemish in his work is a want of order 
and arrangement. He seems to have been reproved by our 
countryman Morison, for placing the Lobelia under a wrong 
genus. He died at Basle in 1624. 
Monnier, Louis William. This writer is less known than 
the others whose works are quoted by Hudson. It seems 
that Louis XV. was anxious to have a correct map of France. 
To accomplish this, M. Cassini de Thury made a trigono- 
metrical survey of that kingdom, and in 1744, published an 
account of it under the title of “ The Meridian of the Obser- 
vatory of Paris, verified throughout the whole extent of the 
kingdom by new observations, &c.” The map was not finished 
by him, but by his son. That the publication might be more 
complete and more interesting, M. le Monnier, a celebrated 
physician and naturalist, inserted what is in fact an Appen- 
dix to the main treatise, “ Observations on the Natural 
History of the Provinces in the Soush of France.” He was 
a member of the Boyal Academy, and made these observa- 
tions in the year 1739. In the page which is marked 
cxxxj,* with small Eoman numerals, he calls the Lobelia 
the stinging Bapuntium of Sologne,t and quotes Morison’s 
Eoyal Garden of Blois, as his authority for the name. 
‘^This plant” he remarks, ‘‘is common enough in all” (the 
province of) “Berry ; its leaves are much larger and more 
* There is another page in the hook marked 131 . 
t Eapuntium urens soloniense. Mor. H. K. Blaes. Cette plante est assez com- 
mune dans tout le Berry ; ses feuilles sont beaucoup plus grandes et plus succulentes 
dans le Eendonnay que dans les pres humides de la Sologne ; mais elle n’en pas 
pour cela moins brulante. 
