de l'Acad._) he evinced his appreciation of the necessity of natural orders in botany by an attempt at the classification of plants, interesting though crude, and falling immeasurably short of the system which grew in the hands of his intimate friend Jussieu."-- _Encyc.

Brit._, Art.

LAMARCK.
A genus of tropical plants of the group _Solanaceae_ was named _Markea_ by Richard, in honor of Lamarck, but changed by Persoon and Poiret to _Lamarckea_.

The name _Lamarckia_ of Moench and Koeler was proposed for a genus of grasses; it is now _Chrysurus_.
Lamarck's success as a botanist led to more or less intimate relations with Buffon.

But it appears that the good-will of this great naturalist and courtier for the rising botanist was not wholly disinterested.
Lamarck owed the humble and poorly paid position of keeper of the herbarium to Buffon.