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The West India Islands have been proved to be too hot 
for the Bermuda Cedar ; at least, in St. Vincent, it is buta 
stunted tree.” 
W. R. 
BoissrER, Botany of Spain and of Greece. 
Our readers will be glad to be furnished with the following 
intelligence, communicated by M. Boissier. 
“ Our late political disturbances have caused my correspond- 
ence to fall much into arrears. You are perhaps aware that 
I received a wound during these commotions, and though - 
happily not in itself severe, the consequences of this accident 
have kept me long indisposed. 
My work on Spain is immediately to be resumed, and 1 
trust quickly completed ; for all the plates, except four or five, 
have already appeared, and I have only to give a few general 
remarks on Botanical Geography, and some additions and 
corrections. : 
You do me much honour in asking for some particu- 
lars respecting my last journey, with a view to their inser- 
tion in your Journal of Botany ; but hitherto I have been 
unable to comply with this desire. The expedition in ques- 
tion was of too rapid and, if I may so express myself, too su- 
Perficial a nature, to allow of my making many connected 
observations ; but you may rest assured that I will, if possible, 
during the approaching summer, draw up a sketch, at least, 
of the vegetable productions and botanical aspect of the coun- 
tries which I visited. As regards my collections, I was suc- 
cessful in procuring many fine plants in Greece, where I 
Spent April and the early part of May, botanizing, to my great 
delight, over those classical localities whose names are full of 
stirring associations. Mounts Parnassus, Hymettus, and 
Pentelicus were explored, and Taygetus ; the latter, indeed, 
still much covered with snow. In spite of the noble Flora 
Greca, published by Sibthorp and Smith, much yet remains 
