PREFACE. ; Ix 
Flora Peruviana, containing in all two hundred and twenty- 
three figures. : 
Tn the last place, he may notice a circumstance, which, although 
foreign te the present subject, will nevertheless be interesting 
information to all the lovers of botany im this country. In 
a letter he lately received from his friend Don Mariano Lagasca, 
Professor and Director. of the Royal Botanic Garden at Ma- 
drid, he netices the safe arrival there of the whele collections 
of the celebrated Don Jose Ceelestino Mutis, of Santa Fe de — | 
Bogota, New Granada, comprising six thousand seven hundred 
and sixty-nine splendid drawings of his intended Flora Bogo- 
tensis ; besides eighty-five boxes containing specimens of plants, 
gums, Woods, fruits, seeds, kc. with many very Valuable manu- 
Just as this work was printing, a ed-in two volumes 
octavo, The sseseapitt a Toawore caved by Sir James Ed- 
ward Smith, the learned President of the Linniean Society, among 
“scripts. 
which are several letters of Mutis, containing many observations 
‘on the plants sent by him to Linneus from South America; but, 
what is to be lamented, many of his letters never reached Lin- 
nzeus; mention is made, however, of copies of them being kept 
by Mutis; and it is to be hoped that when his immense collec- 
tions, which have arrived at Madrid, shall be examined, these 
letters may be feund and given to the public. I have only to 
acknowledge my thanks te Mr. D. Don for his kind assistance 
an this work. 
London, Junc 2, 1821. se 
