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Society of London as their collector in Mexico: to which 
are added specific characters and descriptions of the very 
‘numerous new species. A full account of this mission we 
believe is in the course of preparation for the Transactions of 
the Horticultural Society. The preface to Mr Bentham’s 
work, being written before the arrival of a second collection, 
only gives us the following information :—that * Mr Hart- 
weg, who set out for Mexico at the close of the year 1836, 
was commissioned to collect and transmit to the Society 
seeds, roots, and plants; but at the same time, he was allowed, ` 
under certain restrictions, to furnish on his own account, sets 
of dried specimens for those who should subscribe for them 
through the Society. The first remittance has now been re- 
ceived and distributed, with numbers attached to each speci- 
men; and it is the object of the following pages to make 
known the corresponding names to the subscribers, and to be 
the means of publishing such genera or species as appear to 
be new.” —“ The greater portion of this first parcel (Nos. 1 
to 258 inclusive,) was collected by Mr Hartweg in 1837, to 
the north of the town of Mexico, on his way to Zacatecas, 
chiefly about Guanaxato, Lagos, Aguas Calientes, and 
Bolanos, with, probably, a few picked up during his short 
Stay in the neighbourhood of Vera Cruz.”—While Mr 
Bentham's Catalogue was in the press, a second and a third 
collection arrived, amounting in all we believe, (for we 
speak at this moment from recollection) to more than 600 
Species ; and the list now under consideration extends to No. 
517. outs 
With that energy for which the author is remarkable in 
every case where he can further the cause of his favourite 
. Science, he has kept pace with the distribution, so that scarcely 
has a subscriber received his share of these most interesting 
plants, than he finds them recorded in this ** Enumeratio.” : It 
is true, that hitherto, prompted by a most liberal spirit, the 
author has gratified himself with presenting these pege 
to his personal friends, and wherever he thought them likely 
to prove useful; we trust, however, that he will comply Gt. 
