24 MARTIUS ON THE BOTANY OF BRAZIL* 



Bavarian Bot. Soc. at Ratisbon, 1822.— 12. " On several 

 Species of Plants raised from Brazilian Seeds" in different 

 works, such as Schrank, Hort. Monac; Martius, Amcen. Bot. 

 Monac; Hortus Reg. Monac.; in Collas' Hortus RipuL; in 



Link, et Otto Ic. Plant. Sel., Sj-c 13. '^ Flora Brasitiensis 



Enumeratio Plant, in Brasilia' S;c., 8vo., only 2 vols, of this 

 have yet been published; one on the AlgtB^ by Martius; the 

 Liche7is,hy Eschweiler; and the Hepaticce^ by Nees Von Esen- 

 beck ; the second containing the Grasses^ by Nees. Professor 

 Hornschuch has been engaged upon the Mosses;* Professor 

 Kunze on the Ferns; Dr Spring has prepared the Lycopodi- 

 nece. The CyperacecB have been commenced by Schrader. 

 Professor Roeper will undertake the Euphorbiacece ; Nees 

 the SolanacecB and Acanthacece. Many Monocotyledones 

 are already finished for (and since published in) the 6th vol. 

 of Romer et Schultes' Syst. Veget.; and various other of Dr 

 Von Martius' materials have been taken up, through his libe- 

 rality, by many other Botanists; for example by Zuccarini in 

 the Roy. Bavar. Trans. ^ and in his Fasc. i. Plant. Nov. ^c. 

 M. De CandoUe has in his Prodromus inserted ihe dfyrtacece, 

 Melastomacece, and a part of lAjthrariea; and Composite ; Mr 

 Bentham has included the Labiates in his valuable Mono- 

 graph of that family. Nees Von Esenbeck undertakes Lou- 

 rinece; Professor Lindley the Orchidecc; and again Bentham 

 the Leguminosce. 



After M. de St Hilaire, Mr Pohl and Dr Von Martius, 

 had left Brazil in 1823, Mr Beyrich, an industrious and 

 able gardener, went to Rio, at the expense of the Berlin 

 Garden, which, as well as the Herbarium, he enriched with 

 numerous interesting objects. After his melancholy death from 

 cholera, in N. America, his extensive private collection came 

 into the possession of Baron Von Riimer in Dresden, and 

 many of his discoveries have been made known by Chamisso 

 and Schlechtendal in the Linncea^ where his memory lias 



* I believe a Fasciculus of this has since appeared in small folio, with 

 plates, together with the Lycopodineee. 



