JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



Eemarks on the Botany of Madeira and Teneriffe. By Chaeles 



J. F. BiJNB^T, Esq., F.E.S., F.L.S. &c. 



[Read March 6th and April 3rd, 1855.] 



I OFFER to the Linnean Society the botanical observations made 

 during my recent visit to Madeira and Teneriffe. Some apology 

 may perhaps be necessary for writing anything on the botany of 

 islands so well known and so much frequented. But, numerous as 

 may be the botanists that have visited Madeira, I must say that I 

 have been able to find but very \itt\e published information, of a 

 satisfactory kind, relating to its. vegetation. In the beginning of 

 my visit to that island, I felt much the want of some memoir which 

 might give me a general idea of its leading botanical features, and 

 serve as a guide to my researches. Madeira is not like the neigh- 

 bourhood of Cape Town, in wliich the botanist can liardly take a 

 wrong direction, or make an unproductive excursion. I lost much 

 time for want of such information as I have here endeavoured in 

 some measure to supply, Mr. Lowe's researches in the island 

 have indeed been so careful and persevering, that there is little 

 likelihood of the detection of any absolute novelty, imless perhaps 

 in the minuter cryptogamic tribes ; but what he has published on 

 the subject, as far as I am aware, consists chiefly in the description 

 of some new species. A few general remarks on the Flora of 



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