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that we should find the vegetation equally rich when, ata still 
more advanced season, we proceeded farther southward; b 
we had scarcely crossed the ridge of hills which separates 
Austria from Styria, when we found ourselves in the midst ol 
winter again. "There were scarcely any leaves on the trees; 
and cold, windy, and rainy weather prevailed, which con- 
tinued during the two days we spent at Gratz. Here Dt 
Unger is professor of Botany at the Lyceum of Nat 
History and Technology, established by the Archduke John, 
and after him called * Joanneum. In the museum, which 
is kept in excellent order, there is, as may be supposed in : 
newly founded institution, a little of every thing, without an 
collection of importance except what illustrates the Geology 
of Styria ; but the garden pleased me much from the arrang 
ment of the plants in clumps according to their natural 
nities; instead of the straight rows, according to the Linnsean 
system, which one usually sees, and which to me are not nearlj 
so convenient as even the alphabetical order. Dr Unger 
himself is a young Botanist of considerable promise, e 
cially in what relates to Vegetable Physiology and Anatom 
the subject to which he chiefly directs his attention. He 
has already published a paper on the effect of climate on 
plants, and another, the precise nature of which I forget, 
about immediately to appear in the Annals of the Vie 
Museum. ! ; 
* From Gratz to Laibach, we passed through a beautiful 
country, rich and varied to the eye, and abounding also 
vegetable productions; but the latter were not in a s 
ciently advanced state to make it worth while for me to sto 
on this occasion. At Laibach, Dr Graf, an apothecary, is v j 
_ siderable stock of the rarer Carniolian plants: during the tv 
hours I spent with him he kindly presented me with some © 
the best of these, requesting that I would share them wit 
p os on many: return, e — he emaii no wish | 
