BOTANICAL INFORMATION, 
the same: more than two hundred plates 
will accompany this text, and present, not 
only line-engravings of all the new species, 
but also of those which have never before 
been figured. M. Heyland, whose style 
has been formed at Geneva, under the 
inspection of the learned Professor De 
Candolle, has been employed on the 
designs, and the details which belong 
to them : one of the most skilful engravers 
in Paris, M. Vielle, is now working upon 
them. This rich collection, on which the 
authors have lavished all their cares, will 
place the figures of the Canary Flora in 
the rank of the finest works that have ever 
been published in this style. 
The Phytostatic department, which is 
to form the introduction of the Flora, is 
nearly complete ; the Geography of Botany 
is there treated in detail; the general 
aspect of the vegetation, the distribution of 
plants over the soils, according to the situ- 
ations and heights which they severally 
affect; their affinity in form and number 
with the Floras of other lands, are so many 
important questions which the authors 
have especially laboured to unfold. This 
first part will offer all the interest of 
novelty, and will-be adorned with beautiful 
designs ; executed from nature by M. J. 
ams, and lithographed by M. de St. 
E whose skilful crayon is now in 
eminent request for all scientific works of 
These plates will consist of 
several Phytostatic views, displaying the 
aspect of the vegetation at different 
heights, Thus a glance at this fine Atlas, 
will afford a general idea of the geo- 
graphical distribution of vegetation ia 
these mountainous isles; and display the 
Several stations where they are united, by 
rising, in ND. from the sea-shores 
to the most commanding summits. To these 
Varied scenes will be added the “ facies" 
of the the plants; that external physiognomy 
which is embraced at a glance, and which 
is marked in broad characters. In this 
Tespect our two Botanists have the merit 
. of fpes a new path for future travellers. 
— ready showed all the advantages that may 
in his work on Brazil, had al- of curious 
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be derived from representations of the ge- 
neral habit in the Palm Tribes, where the 
great dimensions of the foliage, and the 
display of the floral parts, require extreme 
reduction in the figures, and MM. Webb 
and Bertholot have now done the same 
with the woody Dicotyledones. We may 
be allowed to hope that this happy innova- 
tion will find many imitators among bota- 
nical draughtsmen; for that loveliest of 
sciences will thus be rendered more attrac- 
tive; and perhaps, in favour of such a pictu- 
resque department, the minutie of details, 
the dryness of diagnoses and of nomencla- 
ture, with its fatiguing list of synonyms, 
may yet obtain mercy in the eyes of the 
merely superficial observer. 
BELANGER'S TRAVELS, 
M. Belanger is publishing, at Paris, 
in one volume, 8vo., with an Atlas of sixty 
plates, in 4to., the botanical part of his 
* Voyage aux Indes Orientales, par le 
Nord de l Europe, les Provinces du Cau- 
case, la Georgie, l' Arménie, et la Perse, 
pendant les années, 1825—1829 inclusives.” 
—The announcement tells us that “M 
Bêlanger, who for a period of ten years 
had studied Botany, paid, as might natu- 
rally be expected, particular attention to 
this important department of Natural Sci- 
ence during his travels. The value of his 
collections may be estimated by the variety 
of countries which he visited, while the 
report made by M. Mirbel on this subject, 
leaves no room for doubt. Persia, especi- 
ally, which no Naturalist had so extensively 
explored, confers a superiority on his Her- 
barium there collected over those of Tour- 
nefort, Olivier, and Michaux. The gum- 
bearing Astragali, the Umbellifere, which 
yield Assafeetida and Gum Ammoniac, 
and the different species of Cucurbitacee 
and of Vines, have afforded matter for nu- 
merous observations. Nearly four thousand 
species are the fruit of M. Belanger's re- 
searches in India and Pegu ; this rich col- 
lection, , moreover, contains, among a host 
curious species, many officinal plants, 
to the study of which our Naturalist has 
