will from time to time appear in the new edition of
English Botany, edited by Mr. Syme, and published
by Messrs. Sowerby and Hardwicke, our subscribers
will find numerous plants not given in that work,
and will have the advantage of the full supervision of
both plates and letter-press by our long-tried friend
Prof. C. C. Babington.
Moreover it is not desirable, on many grounds,
that the public should be kept waiting for the figures
of new species till they shall have appeared in the
systematic order of the work above quoted. The
order of publication in the Supplement is, as far as
possible, the order of discovery ; and as we have the
hearty cooperation of all English botanists in the collection
of material, the more or less rapid production
of these will depend mainly on the botanical public.
We shall be glad to receive, addressed to Mr. J. D.
C. Sowerby, of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Regent’s
Park, London (N.W.), authentic specimens of flowering
plants, ferns, Equiseta and Lycopodia, not as yet
figured in English Botany. The other Cryptogamie
plants do not enter into our plan.
JOHN WILLIAM SALTER.
Swan Cottage, Church End, Finchley,
August 1, 1863.