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gathering the more showy liliaceous species, and growing 
them at the Cape, where they will be well looked after during 
his absence on his excursions. His motive in thus cultivating 
them before they are transmitted to Europe, is that they 
may be well ripened after flowering; for it is well-known, 
that Cape bulbs have suffered much from being sent off 
immediately after being gathered in their flowering state. 
He has already set out on a journey to the west, into Namaa- 
qualand, where the vegetation is extremely different from 
that of the eastern extremity of the colony, where he has 
lately passed so many years. M. Zeyher’s address is at 
Vygekraal, Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope. 
Plants of Caucasus and the Volhynia. 
- It is announced by MM. Hochstetter and Steudel, that 
M. R. F. Hohenacker, of Esslingen, near Stuttgard, on his 
return from the countries of the Caucasus, when it had been 
his object to pursue his investigations again in Syria and 
Palestine, was induced to abandon this design, from a con- 
~ Sideration of the present state of those regions, and in conse- 
quence of the advice of well-informed persons, especially the 
learned heads of the Unio Itineraria, to adopt the following 
Plan. He is about to settle a while at Esslingen, and aided 
by the information and botanical knowledge possessed by 
Professor Hochstetter and Dr. Steudel, to arrange and d 
Pare for sale the plants that may be collected by travelling 
botanists. The purchase of the highly interesting herbarium 
Which M, Th. Kotschy had gathered last year in Koordistan 
. 8nd in the vicinity of Mossul and Aleppo, has been favour- 
able to the commencement of this scheme. The arrange- 
Ment of these plants is now proceeding, and will be an- 
nounced as soon as completed. Meanwhile, M. Hohenacker 
offers for sale the following collections of dried specimens. 
T. a -—Caucasian Plants, a very complete set: first part, con- 
. taining 579 species, to comprise those species which the 
