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BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Swan River Botany. 
Our botanical friends will be glad to know that the inde- 
fatigable Mr. James Drummond, of the Swan River, with the 
assistance of one of his sons (Johnston Drummond, who 
evinces the same ardent love as, and we trust he will have the 
same degree of success in Natural History pursuits which 
has so eminently distinguished the father and the uncle) has 
again explored a very interesting district in the interior ofthat 
colony, and has sent, in continuation of his former series, sets 
of three hundred and fifty species numbered and in very ex- 
cellent condition, consisting of many rare and new plants. Mr. 
Robert Heward, No. 5, Young Street, Kensington, has under- 
taken the distribution of these plants, and to him letters may 
be addressed by those wishing to possess sets. 1t may be ob- 
served that in the thirteen sets now sent, there is no differ- 
ence in regard to number or condition; they are all equally 
good. These plants, as the former ones, are charged by 
Mr. Drummond at £2 the hundred species; to which will 
have to be added the share of expenses. 
Mr. Spruce; Plants of the Pyrénées. 
We rejoice to hear that Mr. Richard Spruce, of York, has 
the intention of spending the ensuing spring and summer in 
the Pyrénées, for the purpose of collecting and publishing spe- 
cimens of the rarer Flowering-plants, Mosses, Hepatice, and 
Lichens of those mountains; and we know of no one, who, 
from education and experience in preserving plants with the 
utmost care and neatness, is better calculated for such a task : 
and how well qualified he is for acquiring a knowledge of the 
Cryptogamie plants of the region in question may be in- 
ferred from his valuable Memoir on some new British Mosses, _ 
which appears in the present number of our Journal — — — 
