OF CAMPANULA. 605 
at their base lodged in the cellular tissue of the style and two 
enclosed grains of pollen, highly magnified ; f.f. 4, 5, 6, inva- 
ginated pollen-collectors at different stages of pressure, mag- 
nified. 
W. WiLSsoN, 
Orford Mount, near Warrington, 
Sept. 1, 1842, 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
ALREADY we have given a favourable notice of the en- 
thusiastic and successful researches of Dr. Hostmann, in 
Surinam. Another consignment of plants has been received 
from him; so that the total number of species now trans- 
mitted by him is 1,000, and he bids fair to throw great light 
upon the Flora of a very extensive and highly fertile region, 
where few have ventured to botanize, on account of the pesti- 
lential nature of the climate. The following letter, which 
accompanied the plants just mentioned, will show that it 
requires no ordinary courage to traverse the primeval woods 
and swamps of Surinam. 
Paramaribo, May 10, 1841. 
The plants concerning which I wrote to you in my last let- 
letter, dated April 24th, having been since shipped on board 
the “ Paramaribo, Capt. Topper,” you will herewith receive a 
continuation of that letter. 
I was at full liberty to postpone my departure* to a more 
favourable season, but as experience is only to be gained by 
making different attempts, I decided on quitting Paramaribo 
on the 20th of March, 1840, during the heaviest rains of a 
Season, unequalled in the memory of the oldest: inhabitant 
for its excessive moisture. I was accompanied by a gentle- 
* To Anka—see p, 106 of the present volume, 
