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Mailer^ s European Herbarium, 



Mr. Miiller, who is the Conservateur of the herbarium of M. De Can- 

 dolle, at Geneva, where he has had great opportunities of determining 

 accurately and from the most authentic sources the species of plants (of 

 which he has fully availed himself), and being desirous of devoting more 

 of his time to the study of Cryptogamic Plants, has decided on disposing 

 of his own private hebarium of Phanerogamic Plants. The following 

 notice will give some idea of this extensive and well-preserved collec- 

 lection : 



*'L'herbier de Phanerogames du Soussigne, oiFert aux amateurs, 

 se compose de pres de 5000 especes spontan&s de la Suisse, de 

 I'Allemagne, de la Hongrie, du Piemont, de la Corse, du midi et de 

 Touest de la France et des Pyrenees, Ea terrae moyen chaque espece 

 est representee par 2 exemplaires (de deux localites), et chaque exera- 



plaire se compose de 1, 2, 3, pieds ou rameaux d'une plante. La flore 

 du Synopsis de Koch y est a peu pres complete; le pen qui manque 

 est surtout de Tlstrie, ou ce sont des formes hvbrides. Dans les 

 Eanuncul. Crucif. Legumin. Umbcllif. Composit. etc. on a mis beau- 

 coup de soins pour avoir les fruits, Le tout est tres bien conserve et 

 les exemplaires sont generalement tres beaux. Le prix en est de 100 

 liv. sterl. (Lettres affranchies.) 



" T. MuLLER, Conservateur de Thcrb. DC, 



Cour St. Pierre, a Geneve. 



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Mr. Spruce^s Collections. 



More collections of plants have lately been received from this enter- 

 prising botanist, from the vicinity of Tarapoto, in Peru. These, toge- 

 ther with what will immediately follow, are perhaps the last of a truly 

 tropical character that are to be expected by the subscribers ; for Mr. 

 Spruce informs us that he intends to proceed directly to the mountains, 

 on his way to Quito, the capital of Ecuador, whose position, by the side 

 of the great mountain Pichinca (itself at an elevation of 9000 feet 

 above the level of the sea), renders it perhaps one of the finest localities 

 in the world for the Cryptogamist, and as the researches of Dr. Jameson 

 would lead us to expect. 



