BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 93 



" I annex to this despatch a printed copy of a paper on the subject 

 of the fibre of the Tine " (given above), " which appeared in the ' Nassau 

 Guardian/ explanatory of its use at Vienna. 



*'Wlien the art of obtaining it with the greatest facility and in the 

 manner best adapted for use is fully known, and its value correctly as- 

 certained, it may possibly eventually become an article of no incon- 

 siderable export from this Colony, and, if only as a matter of reference 

 hereafter, your Grace may possibly not deem this despatch superfluous. 



" I have the honour to be, etc. etc. 



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(Signed) C. E. Nesbitt, 



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To His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, etc. etc." 



" Lieut. Governor. 



I believe Botanists in general were not aware of the existence of any 

 species of Pine in the Bahamas ; but if the situation of the particular 

 islands mentioned above as having " Pine barrens " of this vast extent, 

 it will be seen that they are those most adjacent to, and not very distant 

 from the mainland of Florida, where the Finns Aiistralh of Michaux 

 {Pinus paludru^ Willd.) grows in great abundance, the most southern 

 Pine indeed of the United States. And from a careful inspection of 

 the fibre sent, three long leaves may be traced arising from one sheath, 

 as is the case in that species. 



His Grace the Duke of Newcastle has most judiciously transmitted 

 samples of this fibre to the Society of Arts, which has undertaken 

 thoroughly to investigate the matter, and to communicate the residt 

 for the information of the Colonists. 



Plants of Armenia. 



Mons. Huet du Pavilion, a young botanist who had already collected 

 a good deal in the Alps and is well acquainted with plants, made an 

 excursion last summer into Armenia, as far as Erzeroum, and though 

 prevented from penetrating as he intended into the mountains of Kur- 



it home a considerable number of very interesting 

 plants, including above a hundred new species. He proposes to dis- 

 tribute these to subscribers in sets of about 700 species each, in well- 

 dried instructive specimens, at the rate of thirty shillings the hundred, 

 at Geneva, Any persons desirous of procuring sets may address them- 



