12G Dr. Hooker on American Botany, 



species are included in the Flora Danica of Professor Home- 

 man n. 



Brief and scanty as is this catalogue, we anticipate, from 

 the mostly unpublished collections that have been formed, 

 and from the various expeditions that are now sent out, 

 or that are about to be so, that, in a very few years Great 

 Britain will be in a condition to fill up the void which exists 

 in her Flora of her portion of North America. 



The herbaria at present existing, as connected with the 

 plants of those countries, over and above those to which we 

 have already alluded, are perhaps not very extensive. Sir 

 Joseph Banks made collections on the Labrador coast, and 

 we believe that the missionaries of that territory have sent 

 home many plants to the Museum of their Society. Lady 

 Hamilton possesses numerous well-dried plants of Newfound- 

 land, and we have ourselves opened a correspondence with 

 some gentlemen of that island, from whom much may be ex- 

 pected. In Canada, besides what has been effected by Mr. 

 Pursh, we know of several individuals who are industriously 

 engaged in furthering the Flora of that country, and of Hud- 

 son's Bay. In the first rank of these, we are proud to be 

 able to mention the Bight Honourable the Countess of Dal- 

 housie, the lady of his Excellency the Governor, whose rank 

 and influence, no less than her superior acquirements and 

 great love of science, entitle us to hope for much from her 

 in the promotion of our wishes. On the sea coast of Hud- 

 son's Bay, collections made as far north as Chesterfield Inlet, 

 during Duncan's voyage of discovery, exist, we believe, in 

 the Banksian Herbarium. Mr. Graham in Foster's time, 

 sent plants as well as animals home from Churchill. Til- 

 den's plants, in the Sherardian Herbarium, are from Moose- 

 factory, near the bottom of Hudson's Bay. In the interior, 

 to the eastward of the rocky mountains, no one has botanized 

 but Dr. Richardson, during Franklin's journey. With the 

 fate of a large portion of that collection, and with the affect- 

 ing and afflicting cause of it, the public are well acquainted. 

 On the north-west coast, Mr. Menzies* has been the princi- 



* Many of these plants have been ably described by our valued friend Sir J. E. 

 Smith, President of the Linnsean Society, in the botanical part of Rees's Cyclo- 

 pedia. 



