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BOTANICAL INFORMATION, 
elatum, Kze.—50. Stelbum piliforme, Pers. 
—51. Pachnocybe subulata, Berk. (.Peri- 
conia subulata, Nees). —952. P. albida, 
Berk. (Sporocybe albida, Fr.).—953. Bo- 
trylis effusa, Grev.—54. Epochnium fun- 
gorum, Fr.—55. Fusisporium Buzi, Fr. 
—56. Psilonia rosea, Berk.—57. Puccinia 
Bullaria, Lk.—58. GzZcidium cancellatum, 
Pers.—59. Uredo iridis, Dub. —60, U. 
Bete, Lk. 
WEBB'S AND BERTHOLOT'S NATURAL 
HISTORY OF THE CANARY ISLES. 
A highly interesting work, as regards 
the Natural History and Botany, in par- 
ticular, of the Canary Isles, is announced, 
the result of the researches of P. Barker 
Webb, Esq. and M. Sabin Bertholot, in 
ee celebrated region. It is entitled 
“HistorrE NATURELLE DES CANA- 
RIES.” The two first numbers of this 
work are now before us; and we shall 
take an early opportunity of showing the 
value we set upon it, by offering some 
extracts to our readers; and, in the mean 
time, shall lay before them some account 
of the nature and extent of the publica- 
tion, as derived from the Prospectus issued 
in Paris by the editor, M. Bethun. 
Canary Islands have often attracted 
_ the attention of Naturalists, on account of 
the productions of their soil; but though 
these islands have been visited, at various 
periods, by learned travellers, they have 
never been studied. in a general point of 
view. Teneriffe has ever been the chief 
attraction to scientific individuals ; its cen- 
tral situation, its importance, the advan- 
tages which the roadstead of St. Croix 
offers to European vessels, all these cir- 
cumstances have rendered it a halting 
point, and are the. causes why the other 
spots of this Archipelago have been ne- 
glected. Messrs. Webb and Bertholot 
have proposed to fill up this gap by the 
Publication of a Natural History of the 
Islands: part of their work is the 
result of ten years’ assiduous observa tion ; 
and wo successive years of excursions 
the isles of this groupe, have 
: - enabled them to collect and wodyind detail 
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the productions of the three kingdoms 
of nature. We proceed to give an ana- 
lysis of their labours. 
M. Sabin Bertholot arrived at Teneriffe 
towards the close of 1819; ever since this 
period, his numerous exploratory visits to 
the different districts of that island, and his 
first expedition to that of Canaria, per- 
mitted him to collect abundant materials, 
During his long stay, the local authorities 
were able to appreciate all the interest 
that would thus accrue to their country ; 
principal inhabitants, t 
good-will that was felt towards him, ha 
accustomed him to regard the Canaries as 
his adopted land. Having been requested 
to superintend the college, founded at 
Orotava, and employed by the Marquis 
Villanueva del Prado, (the originator of 
the acclimatization Garden, ) to inspect the 
ocess of cultivation adopted in this fine 
establishment, he endeavoured to show 
himself worthy of this double mark of con- 
fidence. But some regulations that were 
set on foot, by a party inimical to all know- 
ledge, caused the suppression of the col- 
lege to which M. Bertholot was appointed 
director; and an ill- disposed jealousy, 
which frustrated all his efforts, compelled 
him to abandon the gardens which he had 
striven to render useful towards the pro- 
motion of Horticultural Botany. From 
that period, the garden at Orotava has 
been wholly neglected; and our French 
Naturalist resumed his researches with 
still greater activity than before, and 
found, in his studies, that charm and con- 
solation which the acquisition of knowledge 
alone can bestow. The desire of commu- 
nicating information respecting a country 
which he had investigated in every di- 
rection, and of presenting, in one grea’ 
picture, its general history, had occupied 
him a long time, when, in 1828, a for- 
afforded him the 
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labourer P. Barker Webb, Esq., long known 
by his acquirements in Natural History, 
and by his extensive journeys and sci- 
