86 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
. Botanic Garden, and published by Link and Otto. The species dis- 
covered by Schiede and Deppe are: B. nelumbiifolia and heracleifolia, 
Cham. et Schl.; Martiana, monoptera, bulbillifera, and incarnata, Link 
et Otto. "Two species more, raised at the Berlin Garden from Mexican 
seeds, have been described, namely B. peltata, Otto et Dietr., and 
punctata, Klotzsch. The following have been raised and described in 
English gardens, without the discoverers or localities being indicated : 
B. Barkeri, Knowles et Westcott in Flor. Cab., longipes, Hook. Bot. 
Mag., and incana, Lindl. Bot. Reg. And finally B. reptans from 
Mexico has been described by Bentham in ‘ Plante Hartwegiane.’ 
These fourteen species comprise all Mexican Begonias hitherto known. 
As yet we are acquainted with only three species from Guatemala: B. 
crassicaulis, Lindl., Lindleyana, Walpers, and setulosa, Bertol., which 
last species is exceedingly imperfectly described. None is known from 
Nicaragua or Costa Rica. In the ‘ Voyage of the Sulphur,’ Bentham 
has published B. filipes from Panama. To these must now be added my 
harvest gathered in Mexico, by which its Begonia become more than 
doubled, being raised from fourteen to thirty species. We are indebted 
moreover to M. Oersted for not less than ten new kinds from Nicaragua 
and Costa Rica, whence none had before been known. 
(The systematic enumeration of the species which now follows is 
omitted, as it will be taken up in the works of De Candolle and 
Walpers.— Ep.) 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Notes on Botany in Italy. (From the * Bonplandia.") 
Florence, January 15, 1853. 
Professor Bertoloni's *Flora Italica* continues progressing very slowly, 
as is usual with botanical works on a large scale. "The last number 
published, the fourth of volume eight, comprises the description of the 
species belonging to the genera Sonchus (Sonchus, Mulgedium, Picri- 
dium, and Zollikoferia of modern botanists), Lactuca, Chondrilla, Pha- 
nopus, Prenanthes, Leontodon (Taraxacum, Auct.), Apargia (the genus 
