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us; and which, from its southern latitude, 
and the great elevation of its moun- 
tains, cannot fail to be of a very peculiar 
character. M. Du Rieux found Oranges 
cultivated in the open air, and the Wood- 
wardia radicans wild on the rocks in the 
neighbourhood of a small port between 
Bayonne and Xixona. 
Don Ramon de la Sagra, late Superin- 
tendent of the Royal Botanic Garden at 
Havana, (the country that proved so fatal 
to poor Drummond,) and author of a work 
entitled, ** Historia economico-politica y 
estaditica de la Isla da Cuba," &c., is ar- 
. rived at Paris, with large collections of 
E Plants and Insects, which he proposes to 
publish. M. P. Alex. Auber, who, when 
with M. Berthelot and Mr. Webb in the 
Canaries, discovered a new species of 
Echium, (.E. Auberianum, Berth. &Webb,) 
is appointed to succeed him in the Gar- 
den at Havana. 
OBSERVATIONS ON BRITISH PLANTS. 
‘Veronica polita, Fries, and Brit. Fl. ed. 3. 
ud p. 8.—“ Bertoloni, in his Flora Italica, 
v. l. p. 101, gives our V. polita under 
the name of V. didyma, Tenore, and 
refers to it V. agrestis, Curtis, which I 
have (erroneously he says) quoted un- 
er V. agrestis, Linn. Perhaps he is 
right as to the figure. The description, 
in part at least, must have been made 
from V. agrestis.” Borrer in litt.—I 
- fear that in this and many others of our 
consequence is that if we know what we 
mean ourselves, other Botanists will not 
— $0 easily comprehend them. 
Fedia olitoria.—'* Well distinguished from 
. our other species, by the thickened bark 
ofthe fertile cell. The fruit of F. Au- 
ricula, is added to the figure of F. olito- 
in Fil. Lond. ed. 2.—To Fedia auri- 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Lane, Dr. Broomfield. — 8. Landu 
Cornwall. Rev. R.T. Bone.” Borr. in 
—but Mr. Borrer observes, that the t 
ed. 8 
and they are identically the same. 4 
to Reichenbach's plant, it is from Kras- - 
sova, in the South-east of Hungary, 
and has the three outer segments of the - 
perianth very large, broad, and obovate, 
spreading, the three inner much smaller 
erect, and lanceolate, as in Zris/—8$0 
that the author remarks upon it, “ Plan 
ta omnino speciosa, genera quo 
affinium perianthii heteromorphium ex- 
ordiens, partitiones externe lilacine, 
interne albe !—Transitus ad Irides.’—_ 
Qur plant is found in the Pyrenees, and. 
Unio Itineraria. 
Scripus Savti, Spreng. — Hook. Br Fl. 
ed. 3. p. 28.—Since I have inet the 
