398 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Jaeq., the erucifolius of Linnzus being, according to the author, merely 
a form of S. sylvaticus ; S. erraticus, Bert., is continued to be held dis- 
tinct from S. aquaticus, which has not hitherto been found in Italy; 
S. calvescens is a rare species from the island of Capraja; 5. Jacquinia- 
mus is joined to S. nemorensis.—Aster is the last genus described, but 
only in part. 
I am sorry to add, Professor Parlatore's health continues unsatisfac- 
tory; he is still under medical treatment, and can study but little com- 
pared to what he was accustomed to do. 
Dr. Planchon arrived here three weeks ago, and will remain with us 
some time, as he has come for the purpose of determining the plants 
cultivated in Prince Demidoff's Gardens. Mr. B. Ker, the son of the 
well-known botanist, and a botanist himself, is also here.—Seemann’s 
Bonplandia. 
Extracts from various Letters from Mn. James DRUMMOND, relating to 
the Botany of Swan RIVER. 
(Continued from p. 347.) dapes 
At our first bivouac after leaving the river and turning east, we 
found our intended quarters, at a spring of water, pre-occupied by a 
tribe of natives. We arrived before the people, and had time to ob- 
serve all their spare moveable property, suspended from the trees in 
nets instead of the kangaroo-skin bags used by the aborigines of the 
Swan River district. As we expected, a little before sunset the party 
returned; there might be twelve or fourteen men, besides women and 
children. Several of them had never seen a white man before, but 
they were very friendly ; and during the two days we stopped in the 
. place, they often went out hunting with my son, Mr. Butcher (a young 
settler, who had accompanied us), and our servant. They catch a small 
kind of kangaroo in nets, shaped something like our common cabbage- 
nets, and having a running string near the mouth, which is the nearest 
approach we have seen the natives make to the running noose : a know- 
ledge of which would enable them to procure abundance of food with 
little trouble. These little animals retreat, during the day, into dense 
. thickets of Eucalyptus and other shrubs, through which the people make 
