J 98 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 



Mr. Thos. Lobb's Java Plants. 



Mr. Heward, Young Street, Kensington, is charged with 

 the distribution of the sets of the exquisitely beautiful and 

 rare specimens of the mountains of Java, collected by Mr. 

 Thos. Lobb. The number of sets is but small, and the 

 amount of species in each varies from 100 to 200, or nearly 

 so. More perfect specimens have never been offered for sale, 

 and the price is £2 the 100 species, exclusive of share of 

 freight and commission. A list of the names of many will 

 soon appear in this Journal. 



Notes on the Vegetation and general character of the 

 Missourt and Oregon Territories, made during a 

 Botanical Journey in the State of Missouri, and across the 

 South Pass of the Rocky Mountains, to the Pacific, 

 during the years 1843 and 1844 ; by Charles A. Gbybb« 



(Continued from p. 41, Vol. V.) 



Preliminary Remarks. — The great Rocky Mountain chain 

 and the broad desert of the Blue Mountains divide the Oregon 

 eastwardly from the comparatively civilized parts of North 

 America. The means of communication north and south- 

 ward is equally obstructed by mountains, woods and tor- 

 rents.* Only from the west is this region accessible by a 



* There is very little or no hope that these impediments to communica- 

 tion, especially towards the south-east and west, will ever be successfully 

 overcome. Allowing the possibility that (according to the sanguine wishes or 

 expectations of Mr. Parker and others) railroad-stations may be established 

 over level regions, the greatest difficulties would be experienced by the 

 fully six months long, snowy and stormy winters ; and the masses o 

 flying sands in the wide deserts, which must still be traversed, for at leas 

 three months out of the remaining six. Nor is there any possibility, a * 

 cording to the opinions of the Hon. Hudson's Bay Company's sea-officers, 



