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ing or curious (and they are not a few), would have been 

 given to the public, instead of lying unknown in the attics of 

 our Linnaean Society. 



Professor Fries is devoting himself, with his usual zeal, to 

 the investigation of the Scandinavian Flora (that of the Scan- 

 dinavian Peninsula from Petersburg to the North Sea), and 

 has been specially studying Hieracium, Salix, and Carex. 

 The general result of his observations has lately appeared 

 under the title of " Summa Plantarum Scandinavia/' being 

 an Enumeration of the Flora of the country, with geographical 

 indications of each species and detailed characters for such as 

 are not in Koch's Synopsis, or are differently characterized by 

 Fries. It appears to be a useful work, more especially as a 

 kind of resume of the conclusions drawn by Fries from a long 

 and careful study of many difficult species. 



Returning here on Monday evening, my first care was to 

 find out the botanists. Professor Wikstrom, who has the 

 care of the herbarium of the Academy of Sciences, devoted 

 himself to us with the greatest politeness, and did the honours 

 of the Horticultural and Agricultural establishments as well 

 as of the parks attached to the royal palaces, &c, in the 

 neighbourhood of this town. He is chiefly occupied with the 

 arrangement and determination of the herbarium of the 

 Academy. This consists of Swartz's West Indian collection, 

 and of a general herbarium of a mixed nature, containing some 

 good things from French and English botanists, Swartzs 

 contemporaries, and some modern collections of Swedish tra- 

 vellers, chiefly West Indian and Brazilian, with a number of 

 Macalisberg (South African) plants from a brother of Profes- 

 sor Wahlberg. Swartz's specimens are good and satisfac- 

 tory, and looking through the Mimosea of the general her- 

 barium, it appeared to me a very fair collection, though far 

 inferior in extent to the principal herbaria of England, France 

 and Germany. Professor Wikstrom is most anxious to 

 increase it, and spares no labour in making up parcels to 

 exchange, but the Academy is unable to allow sufficient funt s 

 for the purchase of specimens ; and whether from the di 



