st received a large case from his collector 
Brazil, the contents of which will be 
dary of that province, as being the 
district offering at once the richest, the 
. Most varied, and the least known vegeta- 
tion in northern Brazil. 
" Zuccarini is much engaged with a 
Monograph of Cactee, for which the 
garden of Munich affords rich materials, 
especially from Karwinsky’s Mexican col- 
lection. The work is in a state of great 
-forwardness, and the printing will, I be- 
E lieve, soon be commenced. With respect 
to Japanese plants, he has published four or 
five Fasciculi, and materials are prepared 
for three or four more. The publication 
of the Flora Japonica seems to be for the 
Present postponed. 
oe The Greek plants collected by Berger 
 Wewith Zuccarini, one complete set being 
: deposited in the Museum. The Professor 
Eu Zoology at the Munich Academy has 
‘Madertaken a journey to Syria and Pales- 
tine, partly for the sake of Natural History. 
"" Iwas at Munich he was at Constan- 
. "P6, on his way to Jerusalem, and had 
E with him two young botanical collectors. 
d ‘At EN only one volume of Host's 
de as been published. Of Schott's 
j Genera of Ferns,: i p ts ha appe red. 
“has Melebrémata? only one Fasciculus. 
with go htt” by Endlicher, will be finished 
cam more part. But I will give you a 
~~ account of this author's labours in 
ueri sro contain admirable illustrations of the 
tive ers of the Ferns, with brief descrip- 
S 
"iced at page 161 of our « Botanical Journal." 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
189 
my next. In the mean while you will pro- 
bably be much interested by the first part 
of his Genera Plantarum ? just published. 
It contains all the Cryptogamia and the 
commencement of the Monocotyledones. 
* À person of the name of Frivaldski 
has collected some good plants in the 
Turkish mountains, and offers sets, I am 
told, of between two hundred and two 
hundred and fifty species, for about £2." 
** Vienna, Nov. 25, 1836. 
“Iam now settled to work here for the 
winter, and really it is a pleasure to do so 
in a Herbarium, already so extensive, and 
conducted under such liberal management 
as the Imperial Herbarium is. After the 
deaths of Dr. Pohl and Trattinick, who 
were respectively keepers of the Brazilian 
Museum, and of the general Herbarium at 
the Imperial Cabinet of Natural History, 
the Government were induced to unite 
both collections, and to give M. Endlicher 
the charge of the entire botanical portion, 
with Dr. Fenzl as his assistant, and three 
young men to work under their superin- 
tendence. After this arrangement had been 
completed, M. Endlicher presented to the 
Museum the whole of his own Herbarium. 
The sum allotted for the expenses of the 
botanical department is sufficiently liberal 
to enable them to subscribe to all collec- 
tions of real interest. The whole Herba- 
rium now therefore consists, 
«T. Of Portenschlag’s Herbarium, contain- 
ing chiefly garden specimens, and the 
lants of Germany, Dalmatia, and Sicily. 
« II. Ferdinand Bauer's Australian collec- 
tions. : 
“III. A most complete set of Sieber's 
plants. 
«TV. A very general collection from End- 
licher's correspondents. 
« V. Sets of the plants gathered by most 
of the collectors who have been sent out 
during the last few years. : 
3 « Genera Plantarum methodo naturali disposita ; 
auctore Stephano Endlicher. Vienna.""—Thbis impor 
work, in imperial 8vo., double columns, will form one 
large volume, to be delivered in ten parts ; and the 
Michaelmas, 1837 
completion is promised at 
