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it must be observed containing a beautiful suite of the Lisbon Flora, 

 and a great number of rare and novel species ; for instance, some 

 undescribed Carices, a new Laurus, a new Vaccinium, a large-flowered 

 new species of Euphrasia, an undescribed Frankenia and Veronica, 

 together with several recent discoveries, the fruits of the Rev. Mr. 

 Lowe's labours in Madeira. For these, subscriptions are received 

 of from 10 to 36 florins (22 to 75 francs, which must be sent free 

 of postage), and for which the collections will be transmitted early 

 in the following year. 



Peofessor Hochstetter. 

 Dr. Steudel. 

 Essliiigen, Sept. 10, 18.38. 



We learn by letters lately received from Switzerland, that Dr. 

 Brunner of Berne has returned from the Cape de Verd Islands with 

 a collection of from 500 to 600 species of plants, which it is his in- 

 tention to offer to botanists at the rate of about 21. the hundred spe- 

 cies. 



Mr. Gardner is prosecuting his botanical researches in Brazil 

 with unabated ardour. At p. 463 of vol. i. we mentioned his arrival 

 at Pernambuco, and gave some account of the vegetation of that di- 

 strict, which he had communicated in a letter dated Jan. 24, 1838. 



Since that period several letters have reached us from this enter- 

 prising naturalist (the last dated in July of this year), from which 

 we extract the following passages. 



" Maceio, Province of Alagoas, April 5, 1838. 



" I am highly gratified to hear that my collections from the Organ 

 Mountains give so much satisfaction. After the labour bestowed on 

 collecting and preserving them, this intelligence becomes doubly 

 agreeable. It is peculiarly pleasant to me to know that the Cactus 

 which I named after my noble and generous patron the Duke of 

 Bedford is doing so well in the Glasgow Botanic Garden. It is a 

 remarkably pretty species, and will soon, I trust, blossom with you ; 

 the specimen which I first saw, and of which the discovery gave me 

 more delight than I can describe, was adorned with upwards of 200 

 flowers. 



" Since I last wrote to you I have done and sufi^ered a good deal, 

 having been within an inch of the grave from a severe attack of dy- 

 sentery while on a voyage up the Rio San Francisco. On the 30th 

 of January I left Pernambuco in a canoe for this place, where I pur- 



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