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is oue of the most valuable contributions to descriptive botanical 

 literature which it has been our good fortune to notice. 



These notes evince that the greatest care has been taken to 

 secure accuracy and perspicuity ; and where the author consci- 

 entiously diflfers, as he occasionally does, from eminent living 

 authorities, his views are advanced with singular moderation, 

 and with becoming deference to the opinions of those who have 

 gone over the same course. There is not the slightest trace of 

 egotistic conceit, nor flippancy, nor depreciation of other men's 

 labours, nor an exaggerated over-estimate of his own, in this slim 

 tractate. With a complete mastery of his subject, he excels in 

 the curiosa felicitas of style, neither affectedly learned nor de- 

 plorably mean ; neither too copious nor too concise. The bro- 

 chure is confidently recommended to all our readers ; and if they 

 will take our advice, and read it carefully, and ponder its con- 

 tents, they will both thank the giver of this counsel and pro- 

 bably be better, if not wiser, after the perusal. 



Our readers will again, at another time, be edified by more 

 extracts from these judicious notes. 



BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. 

 Answers to Correspondents, and Remarks on Communications 



RECEIVED SINCE THE 27tH OF AuGUST. 



Information has just arrived from an unknown correspondent, that an 

 "Expedition to Vancouver's Island and British Columbia" has been 

 organized in the northern capital. The object of this Oregon association 

 is the collection " of seeds of hardy trees and plants, and the seeds and 

 roots of flowers." 



Mr. Robert Brown, a naturalist well known in Edinburgh, has been ap- 

 pointed to proceed to Columbia in the capacity of collector, to carry out 

 the intentions of the association. 



Such of our readers as desire to aid in realizing the objects of this 

 society should apply to James M'Nab, Esq., Superintendent of the Royal 

 Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Treasurer to the Society. 



Mr. Briggs, of 10, Torrington Place, Plymouth, informed us, August 

 27th, that the Epilobium announced in the August number, p. 286, is not 

 rare about Crabtree, a village two or three miles from Plymouth, adjoining 

 the Laira, a large inlet from the sea into which the river Plym liows. 



" The plant abounds on a wall in the village, by the side of the Ply- 

 mouth and Exeter road, intermixed with plants of Ejulobium moiUaimm, 



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