124 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
* exhibens Synopsin Plantarum quas est. 1839 legit auctor ;— 
accedunt species quas in eisdem terris lectas communicarunt 
Friedericksthal, Frivaldski, Pestalozza, vel plane descriptas 
reliquerunt Buxbaum, Forskol, Sibthorp, Sistini, alii, vol. 1, 
Brunswig, 1843." "The first volume is now before us, and it 
forms assuredly a most valuable addition to our knowledge of 
Eastern botany. The plan of the author and the object of 
his work are best explained in his own words : 
« The theory of the laws of the distribution of plants over 
the earth, requires to be based upon detailed and varied 
observations. Systematic botanists of the present day have 
devoted themselves with more zeal than ever to investiga- 
tions of this nature. As the circumstances relating to cli- 
mate in Europe are best known, so, in the present state 
of geographical botany, observations on the distribution of 
plants over this portion of the earth must excite a greater 
interest, and at a time when the Flora of Northern Europe 
is almost exhausted, our researches are next directed to the 
Basin of the Mediterranean. In Italy, we see Bertoloni's 
history of plants almost half finished; Boissier's work on 
the vegetation of the south coast of Spain is received with 
unreserved acknowledgments ; in Greece and Anatolia, nu- 
merous explorations have been made, which are partly 
published, partly prepared for publication ; and lastly what- 
ever has been observed with so much success in the southern 
provinces of the Russian Empire, including the labours of 
C. A. Meyer, Nordmann, &c., has been collected together in 
the Flora Rossica, commenced by Ledebour. 
* Amidst so many endeavours to investigate the vegetable 
productions of South Europe and the adjoining countries, 
European Turkey alone remained till now almost neglected. 
Few travellers have penetrated the interior of Rumelia; and 
the botanical labours of those few have not been adequate, 
or they are not sufficiently published, to serve to elucidate 
the character of the relations between the Greek, the Taurian 
and the Dalmatian Floras, the transition between which lies 
to the south of the Danube. 
