BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 7l 



first proposed, of fifteen florins per century. The same an- 

 nouncement confirms the original determination of the Direc- 

 tors, namely, that no new subscriptions shall be received at 

 that low price. New subscribers, whose aid is most respect- 

 fully and urgentl}^ requested, will be now required to pay at 

 the rate of not less than twenty florins per hundred. 



The first distribution of Kotschy's Cordofan (south Nu- 

 bian) Plants will be ready in the month of June. Each set 

 will consist of four hundred species. For these plants the 

 subscription price is still open, at fifteen florins per hundred. 



New Zeala7id Bolany. 



We have very great pleasure in announcing that Mr 

 M'Calla of Dublin, who has been long engaged in collecting 

 and preserving objects of Natural History for Professor 

 Scouler, and for the Royal Dublin Society, is about to 

 embark for New Zealand, for the sole purpose of making 

 Botanical collections and chiefly in the southern and less 

 frequented districts of the group. We believe him to be 

 entirely competent to engage in so important an object. We 

 have ofllered him every facility in our power towards further- 

 ing so laudable an object, and especially in naming his 

 plants ; and have suggested that he dispose of his well-dried 

 specimens to the public, at the price of £2 the hundred spe- 

 cies, for phaenoganious plants and Ferns; and £1 the hun- 

 dred species for the other Cryptogamiae, a family of plants 

 which has already occupied much of Mr M'Calla's attention. 



The ardour with which Mr M'Calla enters upon this un- 

 dertaking, warrants us in believing that he will not disappoint 

 the hopes of those Naturalists who are disposed to encourage 

 him. 



We are informed of the following Hortus Siccus beins 

 now on sale in Paris: — 



