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erras, and the greater part of the moun- 
tains of Andalusia, and was never attacked. 
The tranquillity of Portugal, where the 
Botanist had no need of pistols in his gir- 
dle, or gun at his shoulder, was, after this, 
a paradise.” 
We are happy to find that Mr. George 
W. Francis, of London, has put it in the 
power of the student of Botany to study 
the British Ferns by a remarkably cheap 
publication, which contains figures (on a 
reduced scale indeed) and descriptions of 
all our genera species. The figures are 
all engraved by Mr. Francis himself, and 
the descriptions appear to be drawn up 
with considerable care, and the stations to 
be very full and satisfactory. The size is 
a thin 8vo., and the price only 4s. 
Russia, and indeed all Europe, has lately 
had to deplore the sudden death of a very 
admirable Botanist, in the person of John 
Prescott, Esq. of St. Petersburg, one of 
the first merchants in that place. His lei- 
sure hours were devoted to the study of 
plants and the enriching his Herbarium, 
which latter is perhaps exceeded but b 
few in Europe, especially that portion of 
it relating to the Russian Empire. Some 
idea of its extent may be formed by the 
following circular, which has been issued 
by his friends with the view of offering it 
for sale, and the price of £1,000, if we are 
nightly informed, has been set upon it. 
HERBARIUM OF THE LATE JOHN D. 
PRESCOTT, ESQ, OF ST. PETERS- 
BURGH, 1837. 
This Herbarium may be safely warrant- 
ed to contain twenty-five thousand species ; 
it is arranged according to the natural me- 
thod ; each species is laid into one or more 
sheets of fine, stout, white, unsized paper, 
made expressly for the Herbariua of the 
Academy, the Botanical Garden, and of 
J. D. Prescott; and the genera are sepa- 
rated by pasteboard. All the specimens 
are carefully ticketed, so that no doubt can 
exist concerning their origin: of by far the 
greater part of the species, there are seve- 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
within the last two years, are arranged in 
besides, a great many duplicates, chiefly 
of Siberian and Caucasian plants, in sepa- 
rate packets—certainly several thousand 
specimens. 
The Herbarium was founded originally — 
on the collection of M. Hermann,—who — 
was many years attached to Count Razou- 
moffsky's Botanical Garden at Gorenki, and 4 
who travelled for the Garden, in company 
with 'Tauscher,— containing about four - 
thousand species, chiefly Russian plants, - 
collected by him, and communicated to him 
by Adams, Henning, Marshall Bieber- - 
stein, Steven, &c. ; also many of the rarer — 
species cultivated at Gorenki—but no ex- 
otic wild plants. The additions to this 
were rapid :—by purchase were acquired, — 
European Plants :—Schleicher, Hoppe, 
Lang, &c. &c. : 
Sieber's collections, the whole five - 
thousand species (with the exception oi- 
the Flora Palestina). 
Cape Plants :—Kneps, Ecklon. 
Cuming's Chilian Plants. 
Caucasian :—from Wilhelms, Hohena- 
cher, &c.—Sarepta, Wanderlich. 
Dr. Blume's Herbarium, of three thou- 
sand species ; containing a complete Flora | 
Astracanica, and many from the Caucasus - 
and North Persia, collected by Haussan. 
; e thousand 
d, as will be 
rium was materially increase 
atement. 
best shown by a geographical st | 
Russia :—this is the richest part of MY 
Herbarium ; it contains nearly all the spe* 
cies hitherto discovered in the Busey. 
dominions. : 
Flora Petropolitana (in mare e 
folios), collected by J. D. P.—comp/e 
Ukrania :—Flora of Elizabethgrad, from 
Boshniak—Catherinoslaff, Haufit. P 
Flora of Odessa, from Compére, ; 
many other collections. 1 
