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laris, racemosa kermesina, and 
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her flowering creepers, are made to hang 
in festoons wherever the want of taller 
palms leaves a vacancy. The garden is 
under the care of Mr. Fintelmann, the ne- 
phew of the older Fintelmann, who is re- 
moved to the royal gardens of Charlotten- 
burg, and has taken with him the fine col- 
lection of Dahlias which used to be at the 
Pfauen Insel. 
At Leipzig I spent a day with Professor 
Poppig, the South American traveller ; he 
is a very agreeable, gentlemanly man, 
speaks English well, and his account of his 
journey is reckoned (as M. de Humboldt 
told me) a beautiful specimen of German 
writing. He is professor of Zoology at the 
University of Leipzig, and therefore is 
giving up Botany in a great measure. 
Endlicher of Vienna is publishing his 
plants, but Dr. Peppig complains with re- 
gret of the slow manner in which the work 
goes on, owing to the number of other 
works in which Endlicher is engaged. 
Peppig speaks with great delight of the 
wild independent life he led in S. America, 
and lays much stress on the despondency 
he felt when obliged to return to Europe— 
a feeling which 'in a similar case led ano- 
ther eminent traveller to destroy himself: 
but now M. Peppig is married and settled 
here, and says he has no desire to go back. 
I saw also Dr. Kunze, who is very busy 
with Ferns. He has had several engraved, 
which he is about to publish in a work 
which is to contain merely figures and de- 
scriptions of Ferns. 
“I was too short a time at Leipzig to 
see Dr. Schwiagrichen, or the botanical 
garden, which, I am told, is of very little 
importance. 
** Here at Dresden I had the good for- 
tune of meeting M. de Humboldt, but as 
I am at the end of my paper, I must leave 
the rest till my next, which I hope to send 
from Munich." 
Dr. Alexander Murray has long been 
collecting materials for a work entitled, 
~ “The Northern Flora ; or, a Description 
~ of the wild plants belonging to the North 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
and East of Scotland, with an acco 
gard to this publication is best ex 
by a few extracts from the Preface :—“ 
tract of country which is at present 
view, may be supposed to be sepa 
from the rest of the island, by an i 
boundary, stretching from the Forfa 
coast on the east, to that of Sutherland 
the west; and may, in a general w 
said to consist of that portion of the 
and interior of Scotland, which lies to 
north of Montrose, in addition to the w 
ern part of the county of Sutherland 
district may be considered as consis 
two great promontories, each maki 
gree of approach to the peninsular 
one of these a large, and, for the n 
part, a rather level district; the 
mainly a rugged alpine region. Th 
it is, therefore, to be understood, 
tions still further to the South, and an 
pectation has sometimes been ind 
that, with the aid of a little supplem 
matter, which, on various accounts, 1 
be necessary to give at the conclusion. 
Flora will be found to suit any part 
east of Scotland northward of Dundee. 
** The object, in short, has been to oll 
an account of the native vegetation of tà 
tract referred to, which might 
those residing within it, the means 
quiring a knowledge of the native 
they may expect to find, without th 
dent and well known inconvenience ars 
from the extraneous matter, occurring 
necessity, in works of a more general 
racter; while, at the same time, a 
ledge of our indigenous species might 
imparted to others at a distance, who 
interested in such matters. : 
“The method which has been fol 
may, as a whole, be considered n 
is therefore deserving of a brief e 
