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consist of eighty-three species, nearly the 
whole of which were previously unde- 
scribed: several of these are, however, 
likewise in Mr. Drummond’s collections, 
and more may be expected from that in- 
defatigable naturalist during his journey- 
ings in Eastern Florida. 
In our last mention of Mr. Drummond, 
(see Bot. Misc. Second Serves, p. 184,) 
we spoke of his having left New Orleans, 
for Texas, a country recently claimed by 
the United States from the dominion of 
Mexico, but hitherto almost untrodden by 
the foot of a Botanist. No wonder, there- 
fore, that it had attractions for Mr. Drum- 
mond, which were, perhaps, increased by 
the circumstance of a small collection of 
plants falling into his hands, which were 
gathered in that country by M. Berlandier, 
and which, at once showed how different, 
in general, was the vegetation from that 
of the United States. The particulars of 
_ his stay in Texas, will be given in the in- 
troductory notice to the remarks we shall 
have to offer on the plants themselves: 
suffice it to say, at present, that he has 
sent at three separate periods several 
chests of dried plants, of which the E 
and by far the most interesting arri 
still remains to be distributed ; and iint k 
has, besides, enriched our gardens with 
seeds and roots of several new, or little 
known plants: among them are five species 
of Cactus, some handsome species of 
Phlor, a most remarkable new Cruci- 
ferous plant allied to the beautiful Strep- 
tanthus, (Bot. Mag. t. 3317,) and two 
kinds of Pentstemon, which, I think, may 
be reckoned, by very far, the handsomest 
of this very handsome genus : of these, one 
had been previously discovered by Mr. 
Nuttall, on the Red River, and called by 
that gentleman, on account of the great 
pec general appearance of the flower, 
P. Cobea; the other and more beautiful 
one appears to be quite new. On his re- 
New Orleans in the latter end of 
! This place, Eoo cc TÉ ap- 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
which he reached in January last: there he 
collected twos boxes of specimens, which 
have reached Europe, when, finding from 
the peculiar nature of the country, sur- 
rounded by a widely extended waste of 
sand in almost every direction, that it was 
scarcely practicable to reach the southern 
extremity of Florida, except by the very 
circuitous route of the Havanna; he em- 
barked for the island of Cuba on the Ist of 
February, and intended from thence, to 
reach Key-west, so as, on proceeding 
northward, to pass through the whole 
length of the southern peninsula of North 
America. 
American Botany has sustained a great 
loss, and his adopted country a most in- 
valuable member of society, in the death 
of Dr. Schweinitz, of Bethlehem, Penn- 
sylvania, so well known for his accurate 
investigations of the Fungi: he lately be- 
came the possesscr of aldwin's ex- 
tensive Herbarium of plicit chiefly col- 
lected in the southern states, and in South 
America, and had intended publishing 
some remarks upon them. For some 
years past his health had been declining, 
and early in last year he was carried off 
, by a disease of the heart, an ossifica- 
tion, as it appeared, of the valves. His 
death was very sudden, and his collections 
have been bequeathed to the Academy 
of Sciences of Philadelphia, and is, to- 
gether with the other valuable Herbaria 
belonging to that Institution. under the 
able charge of Dr. Pickering. 
Dr. Barratt, of Middleton, United States, 
America, has undertaken the difficult task 
of describing the North American Willows, 
a task to which, probably, no person is 
more competent. This gentleman has fa- 
voured us with a copy of his “ Conspectus 
of North American snp in m in 
which he has e hundred 
pearance of the surrounding country afforded to our 
traveller some Mus, "^" as the —s 
crs Fore, the rare Epidendrum conopseum, 
on Magnolia the ouly sed 
Pipes the United States ; a fine new A 
new Cactus, a Sarracenia, a variety of s. 
variolaris, with leaves a foot and a half long, S. psitta- 
cina, &c. &e, 
