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kindly, and offered him every assistance in 
his power in pointing out plants, naming 
the rarer species, &c. &c. He has already 
become acquainted with a wealthy Portu- 
guese gentleman, who possesses a very fine 
garden, and who has kindly given him a 
piece of ground wherein to sow his seeds. 
He took out with him about three hundred 
different seeds, and by a vessel which has 
‘since sailed, Mr. Christy has sent out to 
him many more, and also a basket of Cac- 
tee, Stapelie, and. Mesembryanthema, to- 
gether with many kinds of Indian Chry- 
santhemum, all of which are highly prized 
in that island, and will be valuable in the 
way of exchange. By the same ship Mr. 
George Loddiges dispatched to him in one 
of Mr. Ward's admirably contrived cases, 
Araucaria excelsa, Berberis fascicularis, 
Benthamia fragifera, Deutzia, many suc- 
culent plants, &c. Thus will the visit of 
Dr. Lippold to Madeira occasion an inter- 
change of vegetable products, which can- 
not fail to be advantageous both to that 
island and to England. . Collections of 
dried plants may be expected to be dis- 
patched in about two months from the date 
of his arrival, and may be looked for by 
us some time in June. : 
Mr. Lowe, as may be supposed, has 
taken a great interest in the success of Dr. 
Lippold, as-will be seen by an extract from 
a letter just received.—“ The sight of your 
hand-writing again was most welcome to 
me indeed: but as far as Dr. Lippold was 
concerned, Mr. Christy, by mentioning 
your name, had already engaged me suffi- 
ciently to do all in my power for him. I 
have introduced him, shown him about, 
and shall continue to help him as far as I 
can. He seems to be very diligent and 
active, and is really a well-informed and 
superior man upon other subjects besides 
Botany. I have been highly delighted to 
find in him a kindred passion for my fa- 
vourite Klopstock. At present he has 
enough to do with our “ Regio maritima." 
Next month and the following, I shall get 
him off into the mountains. It was too 
late for two or three of the best plants. 
took him to the stations of Chamemeles 
and Sideroxylon: but the flowers were 
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over. Dr. Charles Lemann, a friend 
Dr. Boott’s, has been here all winter. 
this spring has been quite a revival in Bo- - 
tany for me; and you need not be surprised 
to see, ere long, in the Cambridge Trans- — 
actions, a ** Novitie Flore Maderensis,” 
for which I have collected some twenty or 
thirty new, unpublished, or obscure spe- — 
cies. If Lippold is to accomplish any 
thing effectual here, he should not go away - 
before July. But on the other hand, I see | 
no use in his staying after that time, unless ys 
he remains altogether till the following | 
spring, which certainly is not advisable, — 
since I do not believe by doing so he would : 
add one hundred and fifty species to what — | 
he may secure before July. Pray have - 
his friends never thought of the Cape de 
Verd Islands for him? There he would j 
have almost a virgin soil, in a tropical di- 4 
mate. Several of the islands are said to 
be covered with forests, and are untrodden 
by an European. One (Fayo) is an acüve — 
volcano. Lippold could get there easily - 
from here: still more easily probably from 
the Canaries. But I do not know at 
how he might relish such a scheme. Le- 
mann has made a great discovery for ~ 
in the Teucrium heterophyllum, L'Hént. 
in flower. It is a lovely plant, well worthy : 
if the flowers would preserve, Ma — 
their very peculiar colour (è 
my Flora, Trifolium Cherleri, 
indeed, in Von Buch's list, but W RS 
escaped me. Lemann has also foun "um 
deira stations for three or four of my | 
Santo plants." . 
Dr. Lippold’s P 
Whatever may be Dr. Lipp e Ma 
region than that which now engage ki 
attention; and we shall not fail to 
our readers as soon as the country 15 
upon. The Atlas Mountains and 
have been suggested as likely to 3577 
excellent harvest to a collector, buf p 
complished Naturalist, than whom ? 
