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Mr DurancI of Philadelphia; Dr Darlington of Pennsylvania; 

 Dr Aikin of Baltimore; Rev. Mr Curtis and Dr Loomis of 

 North Carolina ; Rev. Dr Bachman of Charleston ; Dr Chap- 

 man and Mr Croom of Florida, have been prompt and 

 liberal in exchanging specimens from their several districts 

 with us. 



By the addition of these contributions to our own collec- 

 tions, we have been enabled to form a very extensive Herba- 

 rium which is daily increasing ; and thus are we becoming 

 gradually possessed of materials and information, out of which 

 we trust may be ultimately compiled a full and faithful Flora 

 of Kentucky. 



Nor is Kentucky, by any means, the only Western State 

 in which resident botanists are actively engaged. In Ohio, 

 on the contrary, the number of labourers is greater than with 

 us. Among these, Dr Riddell has published quite a compre- 

 hensive Catalogue of Western Plants.* In Cincinnati, he 

 is assisted by the co-operation of Drs Eberle, Locke, and 

 Colby, and Messrs Buchanan, Lea and Clark ; in Dayton, 

 by Mr Vancleve; and in Worthington, by Mr Paddock. 

 In Western Virginia we hear of Mr Townsend, at Wheel- 

 ing ; in Michigan, of Dr Houghton, at Detroit ; and on the 

 borders of Lake Michigan, in the new territory of Wiscon- 

 sin, of Mr Lapham, at Milwauke, all engaged in bringing 

 to the light of day the hidden treasures of their several dis- 

 tricts. Of our South- Western States we regret not to be 

 able to give a more favourable account ; but we have not the 

 pleasure of knowing personally, or by report, a single bota- 

 nist, or collector of plants resident in Tennessee, Alabama, 

 Mississippi, Arkansas or Missouri. What a wide, interest- 

 ing, and almost exhaustless field for future discovery ! In 

 Louisiana, Dr Clarendon Peck has made some investigation 

 into the plants of Sicily Island ; and Drs Hale and Ingalls 

 are respectively engaged on the Botany of the country 



* A Synopsis of the Flora of the Western States. By John L. Rid- 

 *'ell, xM.D., &c., Cincinnati, 1835, pp. 116. 



