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lam ing so me defect, it may b ч eak in t| 
ату ап impure base, а dirty st amen, or a split 
petal. li is yes in the florists Т йам; however, 
that а ese flaws js а flaw. To the uninitiated, 
the flower is still as beautiful as ever. William Dean, 
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m сеи on E I - obtained. . Pinus ponderosa, Rubus veyance n an almost trackles ss country, ] he can he can only take such 
nrutkanus, Cupressus nutkaénsis, &c., all gd - i g as E has not seen in other places, noting, however, the 
fro the. MY. "t worthy of the seed be ient p: о of all others, in Parier to all such obsorvations as 
Wer — rned on the 20th of June with all the d cla ofa P онна ашар упш гы make. So many mishaps co ver опе" 
ful expedition. The weather, however, during the whole of | precious load before it gets to a place of safety, that sometimes 
our d а was very wet, the rain pouring from morning ќо | І have been mortified to find, after а laborious excursion, the 
night, for sometimes a week at а stretch. I landed, however, | tangible kA notwithstanding all my care, consisted on 
on every opportunity, going as far as the dense bush w ould | of a ‚ few blackened, indifferently dried specimens. I was pre 
FUCHSIA DEFORMITIES. 
Амоха the many beautiful Yaire of Fuchsia now 
in cultivation are some, the names of which I hayq 
р the petals show som 
interesting gradations i in form, between. that which is 
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А Horist will readily supply tbe names of 
varieties presenting these appearances, while the 
bot: anical interest of „Ње specimens is not lesse ned | by 
soon extinguished it. In the little ** pigeon house" of our|losing ail hope of being able to effect this jou d for the 
small —€— called а cabin, we had barely room to squat | present, I came down to ie ow ria in the 'Thami where 
about, unded by trading articles—blankets, beads, | І arrived after 20 hours’ steam 
obacco, sint s-wire, paint, calico, &c. ; and often when turn- I here take the Our 'of recordin ng my thanks to 
ing into our “bunks” л night we found that the rain had | Messrs. Anderson & Co. for the great kindness sci assistance 
penetrated е soaked our be An ES you may well suppose, | they rendered me through Mr. Gilbert M. Sproat, the resident 
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H H stri Tg: s, engage men, ап ve! one w out any | at m e re' , апа at tbe rcode in whic: conduct 
It will be remem in Fuchsias as we assistance from the whites. I need scarcely t rM the eg н, namong other n he offered me letters 
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h country, only peopled by a civilised ition in a few places [bed me be: о ut to resi 
The simplest and most uent deviation from the in the vicinity of the mines, &с., and where nothing can be | so, his loss, I am sure, w: will be a:deep blow to the success of the 
procured except at enormous MT colony, for, notwithstanding many differepces of opinion from 
On the 24th June, I started o other excu to intereat. or узсе ca Deco no man will ever be found. 
explore the botany of the edes ydg hither dy рды with Kaoh a thorough: knowled; f the wants of the country 
unknown. As the sawmills at Alberni were stopped at Vieri and all that e: it. Victo: mee а ra Pis July 24, 1803. 
time to undergo some repairs, four men accompanied me i 
my excursion. We proceeded up the Som-ass River to а мө, The following copy of a letter from Governor Douglas to the 
on the lower arm of which Anderson & Co. have established a | late Edward АЛА ДЕ M.P., shows how. cs his 
“logging camp." After exploring а small arm six miles long, Excellency desires to promote the objects of this expedition. 
nd sleeping for i о i т 
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than usually rolled inwards. In the next stage the 
inturned margins cohere, and :thus а more or less 
perfect cup is formed at the end of the stalk. 
ts | Qublous pleasure of. hearing the **wolf's long howl Ё тош |. Му DEAR Sm,—I have received your note by Mr. Robert 
Unalaska's shore" (by the way, we were only a few days' sail Brown, Collector for. „tho Bo tanieal Association ot Scotland, and 
The next ation shows that the organ has assumed | from Unalaska), owing to а storm arme оп the lake we were | І may assure you [о it will a € rd me great pleasure to 
~ dm See e tion а іп ме in this 
oods country. It oifers a wide field to the lovers of natural science, 
That AL Ela, diae ie Bien na ТИ апа тюе! deeply solicitous that it should be better known to 
guide (Quasson, 3d chief of the Opis-chesats) up along arm of the world through some work of respectable character 
the Паке, which по опе) knew the termination of. We systematically describing its climate and native а 
paddled along all day, landing here and there along the The results of Mr. Brown's researches are d met —: 
ed banks to cook our dinner, or to * он. ” on an keines amie the www there isa wide lored 
like wing, projecting fro m the side |o де anther and 
Me d the position of. one of its lobe 
Hen hen, these deviations on tend to confirm, 
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island. I found а Thuja e. to Thuja gigantea (Crai untry, with much that is new and oani Ws 
Бо пое енна Baith РФны раа amd шр шуы рар а саи 
.|cones of Abies gran an x nus contorta, » 
а, eb M em wr Ma ‘representat tives T1 З Doug" T birod” "te tree, and will return in the sir, very truly yours, James DOVGLAS. 
ri m difi the an ms ivt age qme zd ре Эг satama toit, if I do hot find it о Li P the А suh Edward Ellice, Esq., M.P., 
ut modifications 0! setting, we came to the termination of tho Jake, whic! 
these the only inferences to woe Ж ie а ivo вашей" Sproat'a A: -- кен ver : pne ROBEK 
í been rtin the of Messrs, erson о, - 
у have жый: чыш a 0 — man—Gilbert Malcolm Sproat. It is about 23 miles in len h " vd gg 
taea up зоп: Ap врасе uds ch imo "fuo of бем bos - | in its Jongest ax axis, Hem we в found a river flow ing gin y Tu remi ия uy m M ONTE- E Nem 
es e Sutures | ascen: thi: mile, when, the n: Neg ONTE-ROSA your epist! 
of the anther, those chinks irren whi pollen becoming вош wb yea Ae оче а чут «ч у ^ ber always see 4 cane ы, "p while T heartily 
blazing fire, notwithstanding the mosquito and various other subseri mu at you a indited (p. 964), I cannot 
makes its ів not so фону нй б iu, 0d which, to those "pm have camped *'sub frigido Jove" | but take exception to some гій m. matters on which, w кес = 
Originally, most t anthers hav lo cavities or com- | in North-West America, there requires no ир Next | bro omni А affection, 1 would seriously invite your fur! 
т а мды one (ог outer and | morning, after pork and biscuit, we took to the woods, | reflection. 
рре ( ascending the айка of the river through a fine КЕЕ ШУ, "Тһе same snows which have whitened alike your head and 
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Do the chinks or su m 
атор suppose, correspon o the merging of 
ард leaf, g do they answer to the lines that 
the two cavi it ? 
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anther, ^ А. m the?other ? i h w] me dn Send M UND т 
question, I must, refer rof. Oliver’ per in кы базе discovery in the examination of wi ich T found | remo Rosos and Dahlias, bècause your 
nsactions, чое xxiii, 1862. e Professor | Abies canadensis of a Atlantic slope; but which I foun of, your селге, 
8 in favour of the latter a йм, risi represented by a which may be itle known in XI Tune $02 feet [rv that 
alternatives just ciu: egt The в abo England. It has only Miet recently жүүт by my iud are mim things eaven and earth than seem "e in 
J 2 : | Dr. Al Kellogg, — e — — an Academy, ір | your philosop x АП that you have said of new Roses and 
described add on ion. to this | their Lebens rri vol. мү me of Abies | new Dahlias, and something 1 of other new 
n:t sutures of the anther correspond | Bridgei. I will send you dont enty of it "e in the season. | flowers, and ^d especially o ew fruits. Do you not think, dear 
e divisions betw: thickened pollen-bearing | It is а t to 100 "feet іп height, c^ dark Vefdbro ax and | Mon that the new Pears, the new Grapes, the new 
m t anther jecting into graceful appearance. anchlets are s, slender, | Strawberries, are min нтте UM s A + е 
» ; а droopi The timber is said to ы rmer, finer, ew even more questionable as objects of value 
the petal-like cup, does its pollen along a line | straighter grained than the Canadian Hemlock Spruce; Which | because the palato hasa lees varied standard of excellence than 
i Ы 1 t. Itis certain] e eye. To have consistent you should at least have 
lr add cmq n oie гы p е neis, bu " nd ЕЕ еч КЕ уе d , that it is | included in your censure the new fruits. Who has told us all 
i КУ NOR 8, uos 
anther from the коп, 0 Eve e о are t | that we d. to know of them ? tM the brief but honeyed 
which under ordinéry circumstances would also be to e nsque that Кее n ob entity, E apply “old | descriptions sometimes met with, t initiated would almos 
ү ith pollen. The true mens of the leaf are | country " Hor 75 yth at all resembling what they are = К to gather ''Grapes ^y horns" and 
olded, “4 as we have seen, become fused Wo ret йите to о заб rmi T E ауа and| lt stri e that your ce on the describers and 
together to form very hungry, and sweet ; did we that T night enjoy our bed of | descriptions of new Roses is rather severe and invidious. 
The doublefowered Arbutus Unedo, amid very | Pine масо, » profaoed by а substantial supper of salt pork, | More reliable and precise information is no doubt desirable in 
many other insi t have к Ў ex ШУ own | hard biscuit, and tea—ou rovisions on all such eg i in | reference to all novelties іп утарен but РЕЯ ? 
А ; : В "Wil ttin e branches for my LAE v no де o е 
Observation, Р: iy noti ffording Taxus brevia M CENT Murr.), but without fruit. Our | supply the desiderata? Reflect, and tell me whether you are 
further. support to the notion originally "brought fire was of Pi Douglas Abies Menziesii was not un- | not D bliged t o prove all new produetions before you can give a 
forward by Bischoff, and n ow supplemented by the | common, but the M was the former-—Abies Bridgei | lengthened and reliable сака, а ү ик, and by the time 
bservati ' Oli and Pinus Strobus, "with Rubus spectabilis, K. nutkanus and | they are proved they are no longer 
“Т; presence o ovulos an ti margina ofa structure nien aus (s eri nasse E reri mide Mri 
e presence of ovules on e margins of a ctu in our English shrubberies; but it is | very nt colour es arles Lefebvre an 
ое the form апа а tributes of d and ao etel: mph — southern part, of the island, par- | Benateur Vaisse. Ihave seen such "dogmas advanced over апа 
ften epi: with in the flowers | ticularly the In e at, Victoria—Vaccinium ovatu і the last 20 years, апд refuted by some new 
нус A i and occasionally the Indian Bal-ul (Gaultheria Shallon) Next | freak of Nature almost before the penman's ink was dry. І 
of the eek, forms no alid o ане orning, looking about the ne оой, we re-entered our | thís doctrine of *' finality " I have no faith ; Nature's s are 
to this view, as Mohl long ао remarked ; but it i canoe (hollowed out of Cupressus зараас К ats ° | езд stib ; Кой, По, ма ше E Ki to -Sonoel and 
mstan ; | nd apply, urces о а! а! 
помно T Sue се "un A еў quon "^ de the me material tm шоу r3 Thuja риска) The With "Том m. Paul's Rose dicta, term them, 
r yo ke excepti . à . 
petals and mde Or between anthers and carpels, Taylor, an Edinburgh man, who had formerly acoompaŭjod 6 is, you say, out M: pata That, I apprehend, із a mere 
that it is the ul or inner surface of the da bn. me on my first journey on the island, when we were that substitute 
bears th | ‹ he lower the Nauaimo Mountains, w et апа halt starved, for two дау, mend for fobacon-Wa Mr. 
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MR. BROWN'S BOTANICAL EXPEDITION 
TO PTEE S YE 
SH FARM 
ЫЙЫ ый wrote T vas abont to il for Айылы, After 
ed both in Victoria and Barclay ea фт 
Pe oho а On tbe 3d of June I started ina 
а trading expedition with the Indians wwe, 
\ M rend прера уати аар do үиі Ли ,Nootka, e temi д 
erouse, Meares, | t| berni Can 
Vancouver, and also Menzies, who collected here the few | similar journeys. Of course, on such excursions а botanist 
plants he had from this part. Though it is not my intention | only collect one or, at most, two specimens of each of 
o particularly describe the botany of the localities I visited, I | meets with ; and frequently, so limited are his теде — 
name, with its - ng waving n crowned with a Pecten like ома уот е. Whether this arises from {һе change of 
flowers. In atmospher ! or {г ome slip of earth, mat but. 
