MR. DRUMMOND’S COLLECTIONS. 
boundary of the woody region is formed by 
a species of Pine, Pinus Canariensis, 
while on Etna it is P, Laricio. Pteris 
aguilina is plentiful in both; but grows 
very sparingly on the Alps. Erica arborea 
grows at a height of 4,200 in the Canary 
Islands, and of 3,800 on Etna. Instead, 
however, of the Oaks and Beeches of Etna, 
the Peak of Teneriffe exhibits woods of 
Laurus nobilis, L. fatens, and Indica. 
As to the plants of the lower region of 
Etna, they are much the same as those of 
the neighbouring continent. Few grow on 
that part of Etna, for which the climate in 
the northern provinces of Italy is too cold, 
though they may be found on the coast of 
Calabria. Spartium infestum (Presl,) 
takes the place of S. /anigerum, which is 
so common about Naples. This shrub, 
Which is covered in spring with thousands 
of golden yellow flowers, is still more strik- 
ing in summer, when it stands destitute of 
a single leaf, of a grey and mournfu 
green, its numerous twigs tipped with 
Sharp prickles, and contrasting most forci- 
bly with the beautiful frutescent Solanum 
Sodomeum, which is ornamented with large 
violet-coloured blossoms and golden berries. 
Nerium Oleander and Ricinus Africanus 
are also abundant; the latter, which only 
lives one year with us, pe attains the sta- 
ture ofa shru sis 
tree, the trunk of which cannot be spanned 
with both hands, and up which the boys 
climb to gather its fruit. Chamerops hu- 
milis, the Palmetto, so abundant on the 
South and West coast of Sicily, disappears 
altogether in the district of Etna. Between 
. the plants of the foot of this mountain and 
that of the Alps there is no resemblance ; 
à greater similarity exists between it and 
the Canary Islands, as out of the one hun- 
dred and eighty-six plants which Von Buch 
found on the lower region of Teneriffe, fifty- 
four are natives of Sicily also. This pro- 
Portionably large resemblance is owing to 
circumstance that many of the plants 
now found growing wild on the Canary 
Islands have been introduced from Europe 
by cultivation. 
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NOTICE CONCERNING THE LATE 
MR. DRUMMOND’S COLLEC- 
TIONS, MADE CHIEFLY IN THE 
SOUTHERN AND WESTERN 
PARTS OF THE UNITED STATES. 
( Continued from p. 49.) 
406. Liatris sprcata, Willd es 
407. Liatris pycnostachya, Mich. 
ouis. 
Liatris pilosa, Willd.—A solitary 
s without flower came 
1833. 
w Orle 
9. Liatris gracilis, Ph.—This seems to 
differ fro pu only in the glabrous 
leaves, d ae inclines to be of 
the same opinio 
jarn laine. squarrosa, Willd.—Coving- 
n:—8. bus longius pedicellatis, 
peli then appressis vix squar- 
rosis. L. intermedia, Lindl.—St. Louis. 
—This is a very remarkable variety. but 
I do not think : can be separated from 
evo elegans, Willd.—Jackson- 
ville. St. Loui dii a smaller than 
in the following "aged 
412. Liatris d Willd. —St. Louis. 
—I scarcely see how L. spheroidea is 
distinguishable from this. 
A 
— 
ge 
plicissimo pubescente, foliis lineari-sub- 
linis numerosis brevibus arcte appres- 
, 
bracteis subulatis appressis, =e 
squamis ovato-lanceolatis imbricatis pu- 
bescenti-tomentosis.—. lectioni 'or- 
rey in Herb, nostr., Co ack- 
vington. 
sonville. N. Orleans, 1833.—8. floribus 
racemosis.  Jacksonville.—The whole 
plant has, in its dried state, a peculiarly 
pv - Stem one foot and a half 
o feet high, rts very depot 
wermost and ra: 
tuberous, but is - 
cc» from the fibrous re- 
mains of fold leaves, Dr. Torrey’s spe- 
