BOTANY OF THE AZORES, 583 
enumeration would give the opportunity for filling up blanks 
in names, and for correcting any errors of nomenclature, 
which might be found in the earlier notes, partly written 
before my collection had arrived in England, or could be 
submitted to proper examination. 
My progress was arrested, when I learned that a list of 
the plants collected in the same islands, by Messrs. Hoch- 
stetter and Guthnick, in 1838, had been published in Weig- 
mann’s Archiv. (1843); and likewise, that a more complete 
Flora Azorica was in course of preparation, by botanists 
much better qualified for the work than I could pretend to 
be. To have still proceeded with my own notes and list, 
under these circumstances, must have led to an inconvenient 
double naming of all the undescribed species which had 
been gathered by both parties; though the right of priority 
clearly belonged to Messrs. Hochstetter and Guthnick, whose 
collections were made four years earlier than mine, and had 
been distributed with names on their labels. 
The expected Flora Azorica is now before the public, from 
the pen of M. Seubert, and it has just (September, 1844) 
reached my hands. This work, with upwards of a hundred 
Azorean specimens, sent by Guthnick to Sir W. J. Hooker, 
includes all that I have been able to see relating to their 
observations and collections in the islands. It appears that 
M. Hochstetter visited all the four small Westerly islands, 
9n which I was enabled to land; as likewise the two princi- 
pal islands of the group, Terceira and San Miguel, which 
Were not seen by myself. M. Guthnick was his companion 
on four of the islands. Altogether, six of the islands have 
€n examined partially, and three others apparently remain 
. Still unexplored by botanists. The Flora Azorica is a cata- 
logue of the species found by Hochstetter and Guthnick on 
the six islands, with some few additional species, either pub- 
lished in other works, or incidentally mentioned in my former 
notes, 
As might be expected, from the superior facilities enjoyed 
