403 



Hab. New Holland. Desvanx. 



191. L. elegans. Desv. Prod. Fil. in Ann. Soc. Linn. Par. v. 6. 

 p. 188. 



Hab. Isle of Bourbon. Desvaux. — Desvaux has observed 

 that this plant differs from L. pinnatum in its narrower and 

 more lax foliage ; but we are not aware of any Lycopodium so 

 named, except by Lamarck — a plant which Desvaux himself 

 refers to Jungermannia patula of Swartz. 



INFORMATION RESPECTING THE UNIO 

 ITINERARIA. 



Mr. Hunneman has been kind enough to send us the 

 following intelligence concerning this useful Institution, which 

 has just been communicated to him, in a Circular, from Pro- 

 fessor HocHSTETTER and Dr. Steudel, dated Esslingeny 

 Feb. 24, 1831:— 



" Agreeable to the wishes of several Members of the 

 Society, we had, during the preceding year, announced the 

 project of examining that part of the Pyrenees which had 

 not been explored during the travels of 1829 and 1830. Mr. 

 Endress will therefore set out for Paris in a few davs, there to 

 make preparations for his thirdand last journey to that country, 

 and to procure information from M. Gay respecting the exact 

 stations of the rare plants. He will hasten to Bayonne, with 

 the view to collect the vernal plants, especially those of M. 

 Thore in the department of the Landes ; thence to the 

 Western Pyrenees; and he will spend the summer in the 

 Hautes Pyrenees. 



" We flatter ourselves that the Members of our Society 

 will take an interest in this journey: the more, since the 

 former Pyrenaean expeditions proved so productive. For each 

 single share, there were distributed last year nearly 180 mostly 

 very interesting species. * Those who subscribed for double 



• " If, in this collection, there should be found a few of the not rarer species 

 amongst them, the circumstance, it is hoped, will be excused : for it is very 



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