BOTANICAL INFORMATION. Ill 



Plants o/M. BouRGEAU, collected in Teneriffe. 



This excellent and indefatigable Collector has again safely returned 

 to Paris, after a spring and summer devoted to botanical researches 

 in the Canary Islands. Besides a beautiful suite of samples of the 

 woods of Teneriffe and living succulent plants (chiefly CrassulacecB), 

 and cuttings from the celebrated Dragon-tree of Orotava, for the Eoyal 

 Gardens of Kew, M. Bourgeau has brought home a noble harvest of 

 dried specimens. In forming this collection he has neglected all the 

 well-known European plants, and has gathered, of the more interesting, 

 sixty sets of 390 species, for which there are already fifty subscribers. 

 Those who know the beauty and perfection of M. Bourgeau's speci- 

 mens, and the very moderate price (30 francs the century), will not 

 delay procuring them. Letters may be addressed to M. Bourgeau, 

 14, Kue St. Claude-au-Marais, Paris. 



The late Mr. David Douglas. 



We were glad to read in a Californian newspaper, of the present year, 

 the following intelligence from Hawaii, in the Sandwich Islands : 



" On a regu de San Francisco un monument en marbre blanc, erige 

 par M. Julius L. Brenchley a la memoire d'un illustre voyageur. Tin- 

 fortune David Douglas, qui mourut en 1834 an pied du Maunakea, 

 dans rile de Havaii, assassine, suivant les uns, par un convict echappe 

 de Botany Bay ; massacre, suivant les autres, par un boeuf sauvage et 

 furieux. Ce monument, qui fait bonneur an patriotisme et a la gene- 

 rosite dont M, Brenchley a laisse tant de traces dans nos iles, porte 

 Tinscription suivante : — 



Hie jacet 



D. David Dolglas, 



Scotia, anno 1799, natus; 



Qui, 

 Indefessus viator, 

 A Londinensi Regi^ Societate Horticulturali 



In Havaii saltibus 

 Diel2a Jnlii, A.D. 1834, 



Victima sciential 

 Interiit- 



* Sunt lacrymce rerum et ment^m mortalia tangunt.'— Vieq, 



" Doufflas est enterre dans le Cimetiere de la grande eglise a Ho- 



