26 Foreign J^otices. 



having knobby roots of the same kind." It possesses but slight 

 beauty: the flowers are small, about two terminating a scape six 

 or eight inches in length, of a pale rose color. It flowered in 

 the collection of the Messrs. Loddiges last April. (Bot. Reg., 

 Oct.) 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art.^I. Foreign Notices. 



RUSSIA. 



Great collection of Dried Plants for sale. — We perceive, by the 23d 

 No. of Dr. Hooker's Companion to the Botanical Magazine, that the 

 immense botanical collections of the late John Prescott, Esq., of St. Pe- 

 tersburg, Russia, are now offered for sale. This splendid herbarium, 

 one of the largest in Europe, is warranted to contain twentj'-five thou- 

 sand species, and is particularly rich in all the vegetable productions of 

 European and Asiatic Russia. Among the most valuable portions we 

 notice Sieber's collection. Dr. Blume's herbarium, Poepig's collection in 

 Chili and all Central America, large contributions from Fischer, Bieber- 

 stein, Gmelin, Hohenacher, &c. towards the floras of Russia, Cauca- 

 sus, Persia, and Kamschatka, together with a suite of all Douglas's 

 North American collections, two thousand specimens from Nuttall, and 

 a very rich herbarium of American plants, from Torrey, Goldie and 

 Gray; Ecklon's, Merton's and Emerson's Cape of Good Hope plants, 

 and upwards of three thousand species of East Indian productions, from 

 Dr. Wallich and Arnott, and Wight; there are also rich suites from the 

 South Sea Islands, Madagascar, Senegal, California, the West Indies, 

 as well as many unpublished plants from Egypt, vSyria, and Palestine. 

 The price stated for the whole herbarium, well preserved, labelled and 

 arranged in the natural order, is one thousand pounds. Mr. Prescott 

 was one of the first merchants in St. Petersburgh, and gave his whole 

 leisure time to the enriching of his herbarium. — Ji. J. D., Botanic Gar- 

 den and Nurseries, Newburgh, N. Y. 



Art. II. Domestic Notices. 



Death of Mr. Croom. — Many of your readers are doubtless acquaint- 

 ed with the death of this gentleman, who ])erished, with his whole fami- 

 ly, in the steam-])acket Home, off the coast of North Carolina. Mr. 

 Croom was an ardent devotee of science, and his labors in the botani- 



