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his American Medical Botany, coinciding exactly with what I have 
myself witnessed of its effects, in a more mitigated degree, in the 
person of another friend, whose case I shall refer to hereafter. 
Dr. Bachman is confident that he did not approach the tree: the 
poison must have been communicated, either through slight inad- 
vertent contact with the specimen in the box, or by the exhalation 
from it on opening the latter. 
(To be continued.) 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
M. Bonezav's Plants of the Spanish Pyrenees. 
The sets of this beautiful collection of plants, made on the 
Spanish side of the Pyrenees, (in our case amounting to seven 
hundred and forty-three species), are now named and in the course 
of distribution from Paris. There are some, though but few, 
entirely new species, several of considerable rarity; and like 
those of the same indefatigable collector, made in Teneriffe, they 
are first-rate specimens, and as reasonable in point of price as they 
are good in quality, (£1. 2s. the hundred species). The friends and 
patrons of M. Borgeau, have, we believe, now advised his making 
collections in Sicily. ^ Wherever he goes, so indefatigable a 
botanist will procure valuable materials ; but a selfish wish will 
come over us, that the present political troubles of that unfortunate 
island may be the means of directing his steps to some more pro- 
ductive region. 
Plants of Canara, distributed by M. Hocusrerrer. 
Canara occupies a line of coast, on the west side of the penin- 
sula of India, about two hundred miles in length, lying imme- 
diately north of Malabar, of which the capital is Mangalore. A 
portion of it is very hilly, and it cannot fail to contain a vegeta- 
tion similar to that of Malabar, which would tend to illustrate 
many of the little known species of the Hortus Malabaricus. 
M. Hochstetter offers sets of specimens from this interesting 
