of this collection was transferred to the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid where his friend Antonio José Cavanilles served as director. Née's collection ultimately formed the nucleus of the herbarium of the Royal Botanic Gardens. Despite his intention to identify and describe the entire collection, Née did not publish extensively but he did help Cavanilles with his botanical works and, after receiving a pension in 1801, published regularly in the Anales de Ciencias Naturales. He described several new plant species including Quercus agrifolia (coast live oak) and Quercus lobata (valley oak), both from California. This has sometimes led to the mistaken assumption that Née was in California, but these specimens were gathered by others on the expedition while he was in Mexico. Most of Née's botanical work ceased after 1804 and he died on October 3, 1807. Née had two sons from two different marriages. In 1794, botanists José Pavón and Hipólito Ruiz named the genus Neea in his honour. Then in 1976, botanist Cyrus Longworth Lundell published Neeopsis, a monotypic genus of flowering plants from Guatemala, belonging to the family Nyctaginaceae also in his honour. See also European and American voyages of scientific exploration Notes References 18th-century Spanish botanists 1734 births 1794 deaths People from Rambouillet