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in the deepest and brightest blue, and all things breathe a 
May air. I am now very busy in putting my collection in 
order for packing, marking the localities and fastening on 
paper many of the marine Alge. The Tagus is much richer 
in Algæ than I should have supposed from the representations 
of preceding travellers." The last communication to Mr 
Pamplin was dated Lisbon, January llth, 1840. “Ina 
short time I shall send through you, my collections already 
made in Portugal, amounting to at least 11,000 specimens, 
and more than 100 bulbs, which you will kindly forward, by 
the most expeditious conveyance, to the Directors of the 
Unio Itineraria. The collection of cryptogamic plants, I 
consider peculiarly rich, amounting to from 130 to 150 
species, and 20 to 30 specimens of each. They are all in the — 
best and most perfect state; and among the Lichenes are 
some which I believe will prove new species or well-marked 
varieties. Ihave but just returned from a week's excursion in 
the Serra de Cintra with a good booty. All the declivities of 
the Serra are spangled with the golden blossoms of Narcissus 
Bulbocodium. Among the bushes and various shrubby plants 
appear the blue flowers of the Lithospermum fruticosum; 
and by the margins of the now swollen mountain rills, 
Narcissus stellatus, DC., and a species of Asphodelus abound ; 
while in the higher regions of the Serra, numerous species of 
Ferns and Lichens are to be seen among the mossy stems and 
rocky precipices. The temperature at the coldest part of 
the day, is generally = + 5—8° R., and at noon= zh 12— 
15° R.” 
It is understood that Aucher Eloy’s plants are on. thelr way 
from Constantinople to Paris; but it is not yet known whether 
they are the result of his unfortunate Persian journey, or the 
remainder of the collection he left behind him. M. Boivin 
has still on sale the collections of Verraux's Cape of Good 
Hope plants. They are good specimens, named, and offered _ 
on the very reaspnable terms of 33 francs the 100. 
Boué’s second series of the plants of Algiers are in the E oe 
/— €ourseof iude (we havereceived Our owns amounting M 
