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to the Caprifoliacea, which Booth, of Flottheck, has flowered 

 lately from Liebmann's seeds, and sent to Dr. Lindley* 

 who will, I suppose, figure it in the Register, if, as it appears 

 to me, it be quite new. Dr. Liebmann's collection of 

 Ferns, Grasses, Mosses, and other Cryptogamia, he says, is 

 very extensive ; I only regret I have not had time even to 

 look at them. Besides dried specimens, he has brought many 

 m spirits of wine, and drawings made on the spot, of Orchidea 

 and other interesting plants ; for example, an orchideous 

 genus with one perfect stamen, like those of Scitaminea ; a 

 new Thonningia, of which he has very detailed drawings of the 

 male and female flowering plant, and of the fruit, a fleshy 

 mass with naked seeds ; a new genus allied to Cytinus, para- 

 sitic on the roots of the Bamboo, &c. If this collection 

 really proves, when sorted and arranged, to be nearly so 

 extensive as it is estimated at, it is certainly by far the 

 finest collection ever brought from Mexico. Dr. Liebmann 

 is not able yet to do much towards the publication of 

 these plants ; his lectures (two every day for four or five 

 days in the week, an herborization on the Saturday, and more 

 or less of lectures nearly all the year round), take up the 

 greater part of his time. He has, however, got ready his 

 Palms in the form of a Supplement to Martius, and had 

 worked up his Orchidea, when he saw Richard's Enumeration 

 announced in the Annates des Sciences Naturelles, and is 

 waiting to publish till Richard's work is out. 



July 9th. — I send this off from Gottenburg, where we landed 

 yesterday evening at eight, instead of the morning at seven, 

 as we should have clone had we had the perfect calm of the 

 two days before, and enjoyed the beauties of the coast instead 

 of beating up against a north-west gale for twenty- six hours 

 in the « wilde Kattegat," as it is called in the " Rose of 

 listelon," which we have just been reading. 



Stockholm, July 23, 1846. 

 During three days that we remained at Gottenburg, I had 

 no opportunity of seeing anything botanical, there being 



