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than break the ground for those who shall follow him in ex- 
ploring it, and yet his collections comprise much that is new 
and nothing but what is interesting, while those very plants 
are in the hands of so very few botanists, that even the same’ 
that he gathered will not fail to be generally acceptable. The 
precise time of the appearance of the Spanish plants cannot 
at present be assigned; but we may add that like those of the 
Pyrénées, they will comprise a large proportion of Crypto- 
gamia, 
Botanical Geography of Britain. 
Mr. Hewett Watson is induced to address a Circular to his 
. botanical friends, in consequence of repeated inquiries, whe- 
ther it is his intention to proceed with the enlarged edition of 
his work on “The Geographical Distribution of British 
Plants.” After long hesitation, and not without much reluct- 
ance, he has finally resolved to discontinue that work, as 
being on a scale too extended for completion within any mo- 
derate time. Such a treatise must be comparatively useless, 
until the whole series of Natural Orders becomes complete ; 
and the experience acquired in preparing some of the other 
Orders for the press, which should have next followed those 
already printed, has clearly convinced him that too many years 
of close application would be required for bringing the whole 
work to a satisfactory conclusion. He has therefore resolved: 
to begin afresh, under such an arrangement of the subject, as - 
will give to each successive volume the character and useful- 
ness of a work complete in itself; bearing reference to pre- 
ceding volumes, indeed, but independent of those which may 
(or may not) follow. It is now proposed to divide the general 
subject into the three following heads, which may be taken 
either as three separate works, or as three divisions of a more 
comprehensive work : i 
lst. Botanical Geography—intended to embrace those ap- - 
parent connexions which may be traced between the floral 
productions and the physical geography of countries; and in + 
