BOTANY 
OF THE 
NIGER EXPEDITION.* 
NOTES ON “MADEIRA PLANTS." 
So great was Dr. Vogel’s zeal in the cause of Botany, 
that his collections were commenced before leaving England, 
during the few days spent by the Niger Expedition in 
Plymouth Sound. The plants in question consist princi- 
pally of Alge, and being only the common South of England 
Species, and foreign to the object of this Memoir, need no 
tther notice. 
During his four days’ stay at Madeira, although unable to 
make any distant excursions, Dr. Vogel formed a very ex- 
cellent Herbarium, having been assisted in his investiga- 
tions by the Rev, Mr. Lowe. These plants we deem worthy 
of enumeration 3 as shewing what future voyagers may expect 
to obtain during an equally short visit; and facilitating the 
troublesome task of determining their names by those general 
Works on Botany in which alone the Madeira plants are de- 
Scribed. The names of those collected by the Antarctic 
Expeditiont on its outward voyage are added to this list: 
e majority of which, having been gathered (in October) at a 
very different season, were not met with by Dr. Vogel. : 
All the species have been determined by Dr. Lemann; 
* By Sir W. J. Hooker and Dr. J. D. Hooker. : 
.. t The smallness of this collection is to be attributed to the PERSE 
ill health of the Botanist of the Antarctic Expedition during the ships 
ten days’ sojourn at Madeira. : 
