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are to be described by the Naturalists’ Society of Moscow? 
and chiefly by Prof. Alexander Fischer Faldheim, (the same 
who published the pancreatic microscope), and Dr. Alex- 
ander Richter; and I suppose we may look for them imme- 
diately. 
“ Steven is rather too much occupied in the affairs of ad- 
ministration, which press heavily on his shoulders, to do any- 
thing in botany. M. Hartwiss, Director of the Imperial 
Garden at Nikitz (Crimea), has received many interesting 
plants from Abcharia, sent by’ Count M. Worontzoff. 
Among them he has found a yellow-flowered Peonia, 
Epimedium pinnatum (confined hitherto to 'l'alysk alone), 
Pinus Nordmanniana (an Abies), said to be a showy and 
beautiful tree; of these plants I hope to communicate a 
portion to you, when I shall receive my share from M. 
artwiss. 
* M. Hohenoche has quitted Russia, to my great regret, 
(you know how many good plants we owe to him), and has 
returned to Zurich, his native country; intending to make 
that town the starting point for any place where he can hope 
to find materials worth collecting. 1 am very sorry to say 
that his health is none of the strongest, and he could never 
bear the trial of a tropical climate. 
* Dr. Meyer is about terminating the publication of Altai 
plants, described by Dr. Bongard, from a collection destined 
to form a supplement to the Flora .ditaica ; this is printed for 
the Academy of Sciences. There will be likewise an interesting 
anatomical Monograph of Cacti, by Schlieden, in the next 
volume of the Mémoires de l'Académie. I am not aware if the 
plates are already engraved, but I hear they are numerous. 
" I lately received the section ef a trunk of Taxodium sem- 
Pervirens, which will afford a good criterion for determining 
the age and longevity of those gigantic trees. The largest, 
lately measured, had a diameter of 11 feet 9 inches, at about 
5 feet above the ground: 20 feet higher up, it still measured 
7 feet 6 inches. The tallest of these trees was 238 feet high. 
The segment I possess is from a tree 7 feet in diameter, and 
