Ploricultiiral and Botanical Notices. 369 



Art. VI. Floricultural and Botanical Notices of Neio and 

 Beautiful Plajits figured in Foreign Periodicals ; with 

 Descriptions of those recently introduced to, or originated i7i, 

 American Gardens. 



California Plants. — In our last, number, we gave an ac- 

 count of several new annual plants introduced into the London 

 Horticultural Society's Garden, by Mr, Hartweg, in his late 

 expedition to California. In some prefatory remarks, we 

 stated that we hoped our own government might do something 

 towards exploring the botanical riches of the newly acquired 

 territory of New Mexico and California. 



Since then, we have noticed, in a late number of Silliman's 

 Journal of Science, that Mr. Fendler has undertaken to make 

 "Botanical collections in New Mexico and in the Rocky 

 Mountains, and that the first part of the account of the plants 

 already collected, with descriptions of the new species, crit- 

 ical remarks, &c., is printed as the first article of the fourth 

 volume of the Memoirs of the American Academy, now in 

 press; and separate copies (of one hundred and sixteen pages 

 quarto) are distributed to the subscribers to Fendler's Collec- 

 tions. Several sets of the Santa Fe Collection, in specimens 

 of unrivalled beauty and completeness, are still in the hands of 

 Dr. Gray, at Cambridge, and of Mr. Reward, of London, who 

 may be applied to for them. Mr. Fendler is now on his 

 way to explore the great interior basin between the Sierra 

 Nevada of California and the Rocky Mountains, especially 

 around the Great Salt Lake, the Utah Lake, and the adjacent 

 mountains. The collections are to be studied and distributed 

 by Dr. Gray and Dr. Engleman, to whom those desirous to 

 subscribe for them, should apply, and will be issued at the 

 same price as the Santa Fe Collection, namely, at ten dollars 

 per hundred specimens. 



Mr. Charles Wright is also on his way from Texas, across 

 to El Passo, on the Rio del Norte, a little below lat. 32°, in 

 the vicinity of which he will collect, the present season, and 

 another year extend his explorations into other parts of the 

 country never yet visited by botanists. The price will be the 

 same as that of the collectionSj and applications may be made 

 to the same gentlemen. 



VOL. XV. — NO. VIII. 47 



