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only regretted that want of food, my stock of provisions being 
wholly exhausted, obiiged me to quit the Andes. 
In a few days I trust to leave Valparaiso for Copiapo, 
whence I shall make my way by land from the borders of the 
* Desert of Atacama" to Valparaiso, stopping some time at 
Huasco and Coquimbo. This journey will occupy at least 
five months, and my route will lie along the base of the 
Andes—a route perhaps untrodden by any Botanist. I 
therefore expect to return hither in October or November, 
with an interesting collection of dried plants, land-shells, 
birds, insects, metals, and minerals. By the accomplish- 
ment of this journey I trust to complete my collection of the 
plants of Chili, and to possess myself of the finest herbarium 
ever composed of the vegetation of this country. It is my 
intention to write to you from Copiapo, and report progress. 
As it is probable that my whole attention will in future be 
turned to Natural History, so I entreat you to favour me by 
obtaining commissions from your numerous friends. I mean 
to study particularly the beautiful genus Chlorea, one species 
of which has been lately figured in the * Botanist.” These 
plants, when introduced into England, will prove, I am sure, 
great favourites ; being easy of cultivation, and only requiring 
to be kept without water for several months after flowering, 
80 as to imitate the dry season, and enable their tubers to 
ripen. lam now acquainted with about twenty species, and 
have sent home a quantity of the roots of six species, and 
also some Cacti. 
It gave me much gratification to see your Lobelia Bridgesii 
lately figured in the Botanical Magazine. The drawing is 
most faithfully executed ; and Iam confident that this fine plant 
would well bear the climate of England, if placed under a 
south-wall, and well covered up with manure during winter. 
It is herbaceous in its native state, as is Lobelia Tupa, found 
Em the same place. Allow me to correct an error in the 
habitat, which is Castillo de Amargos, not “Castello de 
. Amorgos.” 
Among the species from the Province of Colchagua, you 
