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they inhabit. The collection is also rich in plants belonging 
to the tribe Mutisiee, one of them being a magnificent species 
of the genus Mutisia itself. There are likewise many beautiful 
Andromedas and Vacciniums; three fine species of Luxem- 
burgia, and two or three of Lavradia, both shrubby genera, 
belonging to the natural order Violariee ; three Lupines, one 
of which isa shrub six feet high, all with simple leaves ; 
two kinds of the splendid genus Physocalyx; and a host of 
other remarkable and interesting plants, far too numerous to 
be alluded to in this short notice. 
Mr. Gardner believes that the present collection contains 
about eight or nine hundred species. There willthen remain two 
or three hundred more, collected after his return to the coast, 
near Rio, and on the Organ mountains, but differing from the 
species already distributed from those quarters; and a very 
few from the province of Maranham, in the north of Brazil. 
Many of the plants from the Organ mountains are strikingly 
curious and interesting, particularly those from the summit of 
the mountains; such as Prepusa Hookeriana, which was lately 
figured i in the Bot. Mag. (tab. 3909) : an Ufricularia, with a 
flowering stem more than two feet high, bearing numerous large 
purple flowers, the leaves about SCH inches in diameter, pel- 
tate, cucullate, and borne on footstalks more than six inches in 
length. But what is most remarkable respecting this plant, 
is the circumstance of its only being found growing in the ` 
water which collects in the bottom af the leaves of a large 
Bromeliaceous plant that inhabits abundantly an arid rocky 
part of the mountain, at an elevation of about 5,000 feet 
above the level of the sea. In fact, the plants found by Mr. 
Gardner on the Organ mountains, during his last visit to 
them, are quite as interesting, if not more so, than those for- 
merly gathered by him. Several of them we hope to be able 
to figure soon, both in this Journal and in the Icones Plan- 
tarum. After all these sets shall have been dispatched, there 
will still remain the whole of Mr. Gardners Mosses and 
Lichens ; for neither of these tribes has yet been distributed. 
The Mosses are in the possession of our friend, i Wilson, 
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