22 MARTIUS ON THE BOTANY OF BRAZIL, 



are published by Presl. The collections that Pohl has de- 

 posited in the Imperial Cabinets will soon be made known 

 by the literary labours of Dr Endlicher. 



M. Raddi, a Florentine, whose life terminated at the 

 pyramids of Egypt, also accompanied the Austrian expedi- 

 tion of Naturalists to Rio de Janeiro, and botanized there 

 for about a year. From him we have the '* Filices Brasili- 

 etises" folio ; " Agrostographia Brasil." 8vo. ; and some 

 plants which appeared in the 18th volume of the " Atti della 

 Societa Italiana" Sfc. 



The two Bavarian Naturalists, Spix and Martins, were, on 

 their arrival at Rio, by command of His Majesty the late 

 King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, to undertake a journey 

 into the interior of Brazil, from the tropic of Cancer to the 

 line. They set out in the end of December, and went south 

 to the town of St Paulo, the Iron works of Ypanema, and to 

 Porto Felix, the place of embarkation by the interior to Mato 

 Grosso. Thence they turned to the north, over Villa de S. 

 Joam d' El Rey, to the capital of the gold country, Villa 

 Rica, (now Cidade de Ouro preto.) A journey, branching 

 oiF to the eastward, through the woods on the borders of the 

 Cordilleras, enabled them to study the characters of the four 

 living races of the Indians. Returning back to Villa Rica, 

 they pursued their route to the diamond district, a country 

 remarkable for the very peculiar nature of its vegetable pro- 

 ductions, and which had previously only been visited by M. 

 de St Hilaire. They went from Tejucco up the high plateau 

 of Minas Novas, and again reached the line of the mountain 

 forests and penetrated the Sertas, a hilly territory, where the 

 character of the vegetation is entirely changed, to the Rio de 

 S. Francisco, on the other side of which they penetrated by 

 the Chapada (elevated plains) from Paranan to the eastern 

 springs of the Tocantins in the province of Goyaz. The 

 return to the coast was through the interior of the provinces 

 of Pernambuco and Bahia, to the capital of the last province, 

 where they arrived in a year from the time of their departure 

 from Rio. Thence they went by water to Ilheos, examining 



