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lived to make this grateful acknowledgment. He pre- 
fcribed for me ; adminiftered every medicine with his own 
hands ; carefully guarded my diet; and, after nurfing me 
as his own fon, at lad reftored me to health. When I 
recovered, he ranfacked his mufeum for drawings, charts, 
maps, books, antiquities, minerals, and whatever elfe 
might gratify our curiofity or promote the objefl of our 
travels; he accompanied us upon the mod wearifome ex- 
curfioils, in fearcli not only of the infefts and plants of 
the country, but alio of every document likely to illuf- 
trate either its ancient or its modern hiftory. His decline 
of life has been embittered by a variety of affliflions, 
which he has borne even with doical philofophy. Splendid 
as his refidence appeared, the air of the place was fo bad, 
that the mod rigid abdinence from all forts of animal food 
was infufficient to preferve his family from fevers. Yet 
we left him, determined to pafs the remnant of his days in 
cultivating vineyards among the rocks upon the fouth 
coad of the peninfula. We ufed every endeavour to pre¬ 
vail upon him ro quit the country, and accompany us to 
England; but the advanced period of his life, added to 
the certainty of lofing all his property in Ruflia, prevented 
his acquiefcence. Our entreaties were to no effedt ; and 
perhaps, before this meets the public eye, our friend and 
benefactor will be no more.” Happily, however. Dr. Pallas 
furvived the departure of our traveller upwards often 
years; when, determining once more to fee his brother and 
his native city, he took ajourney to Berlin, where he died, 
Septemberthe 8th, i8n,inthe feventy-fird yearof his age. 
Pallas fold his Herbarium to Dr. Clarke, who brought 
it to London, and fold it by audlion in May 1808. This 
valuable collection was purchafed by Aylmer Burke 
Lambert, efq. a viceprefident of the Linnaean Society, 
in whofe Tran factions, vol. x. he has given the following 
account of it. “ It contains fome thoufands of fpecimens 
in very fine prefervation, efpecially thofe which belong 
to the Rudian empire, colledted in his various journeys 
undertaken to invedigate and publifh the natural hidory 
of that extenfive country. The plants are the bed pre¬ 
pared of any I have ever feen, except a collection a few 
years ago from Cayenne, taken from the French, (who 
excel fo much in their manner of preparing their collec¬ 
tions of natural hidory in the countries they explore ; 
and who have of late years brought home fo many valu¬ 
able ones from New Holland, and from countries within 
the tropics.) It alfo contains many hundreds of fpecimens 
given to Pallas by various celebrated botanids. George 
Forder, who accompanied his father with captain Cook 
in his fecond voyage round the world, and who afterwards 
was engaged by the emprefs Catharine to join in a fimilar 
expedition, which never took effiedl, fent to Pallas fine 
fpecimens of all the plants gathered during his voyage 
with Cook. All the plants colleffed in Billing’s expe¬ 
dition, by Dr. Merke, the naturalid employed in that 
voyage, and others, appear to be here. Sir Jofeph Banks 
fent Pallas a fine colledlion of fpecimens, which were 
collected by him and Dr. Solander in their celebrated 
voyage with captain Cook. There are alfo a great 
number of fpecies from Profedor Thunberg, and Gre¬ 
cian plants from the late much-lamented Dr. Sibthorp. 
Among thefe is the true hellebore of the ancients, 
found by him on mount Olympus, the Helleborus 
officinalis of Dr. Smith’s Prodromus Florae Gi'aectc. 
The greater part of the plants found by Sievers in 
his journey r to difeover the tnre rhubarb, and by him 
communicated to Pallas, are in this colledlion, I find 
alfo many plants of the Flora Auftriaca from Jacquin, 
and feveral of Forfkahl’s, communicated by Vahl. Ca- 
vanilles appears to have fent to Pallas many plants from 
Spain. Here is alfo a curious collection from Perlia, 
made chiefly in the neighbourhood of Gilan by Gmelin. 
There are many fpecimens of Ruffian plants from Gmelin, 
Georgi, and others, all named and numbered according 
to their works, and having fynonyms of the older authors 
prefixed: alfo from Steller, with names and numbers 
from his unpublifhed Flora Ochotenfis, and other MS. 
works mentioned by Pallas in the preface to his Flora 
Roffica. 
“ Pallas’s plants of his own collecting are very rich in 
duplicates ; of fome there are as many as fifteen or twenty, 
in every ftate he could find them both in flower and fruit; 
and, whenever he difeovered the fame fpecies altered by 
foil or fituation, he feems never to have negleCted pre- 
ferving it. Every fpecimen is named in his own hand¬ 
writing, and the habitats noted, fometimes with obfer- 
vations; as for inftance, with refpeCt to his Phlomis 
herba-venti, of which Wildenow' makes a.new fpecies, 
Ph. pungens, he obferves, that a decoction of (this plant 
is ufed by the Ruffians as one of the belt means of hard¬ 
ening fteel. In this Herbarium I find the greateft part 
of the plants figured in the Flora Sibirica of Gmelin; 
feveral very good fpecimens of that fine plant Campanula 
pundata ; and thofe figured in Amman’s Stirp. Rarior. 
with Ci/pripedium guttatum, which our prefident informed 
me he had never been able to find in any other collection. 
The plants of Flora Roffica, and thofe of Pallas’s Travels ; 
all his Aftragali and Salfolse, and all the plants collected 
in his laft tour in the Crimea, are here ; befides a great 
number of new fpecies not noticed in any of the above- 
mentioned w'orks, and which, no doubt, he intended to 
have publifhed, in continuation of thatfplendid work the 
Flora Roffica, of which plates have been already engraved 
fufficient, as I underftand from Dr. Clarke, to make 
another volume ; and which, I hope, will foon make its 
appearance, as it only waits for fome bookfeller to under¬ 
take it.” The preceding account is accompanied with 
deferiptions and engravings of fome of the molt remark¬ 
able and curious fpecies in this valuable herbarium; 
concluding with a hope “ that, in future, every botanift 
fent on fimilar expeditions, may execute his charge with 
as much affiduity as Pallas has done, and bring us home 
as extenfive collections.” Linn. Tranf. 1811. Clarke’s 
Travels. Tooke’s View of the Ruffian Empire. 
PALLAS'IA, f [deftined to commemorate the very 
eminent fcientific merit of the fubjeCt of the preceding 
article. The original Pallafia, publifhed by the younger 
Linnaeus, in his Supplementum, p. 37. was what Pallas 
himfelf, in the 2d vol. of his Travels, had named Plero- 
coccus. He fubfequently referred it to Calligonum, to 
which it unqueftionably belongs; and l’Heritier, having 
adopted the fame meafure, chofe a new Pallafia in the 
Encclia of Adanfon.] In botany, a genus of the clafs 
fyngenefia, order polygamia-fruftranea, natural order 
compofitse, Linn, (corymbiferae, Juff.) Generic charac¬ 
ters—Common calyx of numerous, oblong, imbricated, 
nearly-equal, feales. Corolla: compound, radiated ; flo¬ 
rets of the.difk numerous, tubular, five-cleft, all perfeCt; 
thofe of the radius ligulate, fpreading, oblong, fomewhat 
wedge-fhaped, with three or four obtufe terminal teeth. 
Stamina: in the florets of the dilk only, filaments five, 
capillary very fhort; antherte united into a cylindrical 
tube with five teeth. Piftillum : in the florets of the difk, 
germen obovate, comprefled, fringed; flyle thread-fhaped, 
the length of the ftamens; ftigmas two, fpreading; in 
thofe of the radius, germen obfolete or abortive, fmo'oth ; 
flyle and ftigmas imperfeCl or wanting. Pericarpium : 
none, except the permanent calyx. Seeds in the florets 
of the difk folitary, obovate, comprefled, notched at the 
top, bordered and fringed at the margin ; thofe of the 
radius obfolete and fmooth. Down none. Receptacle : 
flightly convex, chaffy; its feales lanceolate, keeled, 
acute, nearly as long as the florets of the difk.- -Ejjeutial 
Charader. Receptacle chaffy; down none; feeds com¬ 
prefled, bordered raid fringed ; calyx of numerous, im¬ 
bricated, nearly-equal, feales. 
1. Pallafia halimifolia, or downy pallafia : leaves blunt, 
nearly entire, downy on both fides; radiant florets deeply 
and unequally four-toothed, fcarcely twice as long as 
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