482 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
could not ascertain the point. Gallesia Scorodendrum is 
perhaps, as a genus, not sufficiently distinct from Seguieria. 
Dr. Casaretto's herbarium is ultimately to be incorporated 
with that of the University of Turin. 
This Turin herbarium, deposited at the botanical garden, 
under the care of Professor Moris, assisted by Dr. Delponte, 
consists at present chiefly of the late Professor Balbis 
collections, partly made by himself in Italy, or in gardens, 
and partly obtained from various European correspondents, 
with the valuable addition of Bertero’s West Indian, Porto- 
rico and Santa Martha herbaria. Many of these plants are 
the original specimens described by De Candolle in the 
Prodromus, and by Sprengel in his Systema, and are impor- 
tant for aiding the too short diagnoses of the first volumes of 
the Pradreiblas, and explaining the riddles bequeathed to 
botanists by Sprengel in his Systema. The Turin herbarium 
has also obtained a few collections lately by purchase; and 
when it shall further have received Casaretto's herbarium, 
and Moris' rich Sardinian and Italian collections, it will 
assume a respectable rank. There is no library at present 
attached to it; but Moris has a very fair private botanical 
library, Especially in works connected with the Meier 
ranean Flora. o we gt 
Botanical ENS to Mount Ouymrus, in Van Diener 2 
: Land; by R. GUNN, Esa. e 
cda Ms. Oii s name is familiar to our readers as à most aa 
. active and intelligent botanist of Van Diemen’s Land; but — 
. the extent of his discoveries in that interesting country n s 
be fully appreciated till the catalogue of new species 5' shall | x 
appear in this Journal, to be followed by the “ Flora TA 
. nica, of the Voyage of the Erebus and Terror.” We give 
following extract of a letter, ldress Mapa pesi. 
