496 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Mr. Heward, Young Street, Kensington, is authorized to 
receive names of any persons who desire to have plants or 
seeds, from the regions Mr. Gordon visits. 
Heldreich's Oriental Plants. 
Letters have been received from M. Boissier, giving an 
excellent account of Heldreich’s herborizations during the 
present summer. He was lately in Cilicia, collecting on the 
flanks of Mount Taurus, “ot jamais Botaniste n'a mis le 
pied." Thence he will proceed to the neighbourhood of Kara- 
man and Iconium. We earnestly recommend those who have 
not already sent in their names as subscribers, but who wish 
to possess sets of these valuable plants, to lose no time in 
doing so. This can be done, as stated at p. 41 of the 
present volume of the Journal, through M. Reuter, rue de 
Constance, n. 136, à Genéve. 
Mr. Ibbotson’s Plants of the North of England. 
If we have Botanists carrying on their pursuits in foreign 
regions, so we can boast of indefatigable and most merito- 
rious collectors at home. Mr. H. Ibbotson, of Gruthorpe, 
near Whitwell, Yorkshire, has already announ ced* his inten- 
tion of preparing this season, a number of sets of British 
Ferns, containing each 100 specimens, at the price of 5s. 
Also a number of packets of the rarer flowering plants of 
Yorkshire, especially the many interesting ones of Teesdale. 
Of these, 200 specimens are offered for 10s., and 500 for 20s. 
‘Specimens of Mosses, Hepatice, and, like the Ferns and 
flowering plants, named and localized, are offered upon 
equally reasonable terms. We have seen collections formed 
by Mr. Ibbotson, and bear most willing testimony to the 
beauty of the specimens, and the care and accuracy with 
which they are named. Contrary to a general practice, Mr. 
* See the cover of the last (August) month’s Journal. - 
