Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 



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most religiously with the view of depositing them in the Herbarium 

 of the Edinburgh Botanical Society. 



" Next week the Beacon goes to Malta. If she had only remained 

 a month longer, I should have had a great many plants, now only 

 beginning to flower. I remain behind with a view of rejoining her 

 in Candia in May. I go up the country, but as it will be impossible 

 during that journey to collect many specimens of everything, I shall 

 content myself with making pretty perfect sets of Lycian plants for 

 the Botanical Society and a few botanists who will turn them to the 

 .benefit of science. I have not been fortunate hitherto in procuring 

 materia medica information, but I hope to be so ere long." 



Mr. Forbes also enclosed the following account of Lycian vegeta- 

 tion : — 



Table of the Winter Vegetation of Lycia. 



S2 



