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dant and fine in the neighbourhood. A proper regard to the 
quantity of moisture is the only point that requires at- 
tention. 
** Some of the genera you mention have not fallen under 
my observation hereabouts; Trillium, for instance; while 
others that are not named by you are abundant. I may 
instance the genus Liatris, great favourites of mine, and of 
which I can send you six or eight species. For the last few 
weeks, I have been enchanted with the profusion of Gelse- 
mium sempervirens and Pinguicula lutea, the former hanging 
in rich festoons from almost every tree and shrub, and the 
latter presenting the eye with all the richness of a golden 
carpet. I think there is another and undescribed species © 
here of Pinguicula; but all my books having been lost 
in our wreck, I cannot be positive; a Sarracenia, too, 
differing i in many points from S. purpurea, to which, how- 
ever, it is much allied. 
* Perhaps I may be able to send some of the specimens 
by a ship from hence in the end of June: the seeds and 
growing plants will go in October or November. 
* p.S. —Since writing the above, I have been to a distance of 
forty miles, to collect Sarracenia Drummondi. Only imagine 
a space of forty acres, or more, a dense mass of that splendid 
plant !” 
It is impossible not to admire the ardour with which Mr. 
Gordon thus carries on his botanical investigations in North - 
America; nor is this, we know, by any means the first time, 
that, when circumstances required it, he has hired himself 
out as a gardener for some months, or a year, thereby earn- 
ing, with the sweat of his brow, the scanty means for prose- 
cuting his favourite pursuit; and we trust that when his 
Alabama plants arrive, (and they may be expected about the 
commencement of the next year) purchasers will be found 
for them: thus enabling him to collect the more extensively 
and more successfully in the mountains of Texas and of 
North Mexico. - | 
