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had suffered severely from the tropical climate and the fatigues of the 
expedition, and survived his return only a few years, leaving the nar- 
rative of the journey to be finished by Martius, and the systematical 
zoological memoirs to be superintended by him, in addition to the bo- 
tanical work which was properly his own. 
The narrative of the journey, ‘ Reise in Brasilien,’ consists of three 
quarto volumes and an atlas in folio. It is written in a clear and elegant 
style, and abounds with topographical and statistical details, descrip- 
tions of natural scenery and personal adventure. The specific descrip- 
tions of the plants and animals were reserved for special publication, 
but the work abounds with information on their geographical distri- 
bution. 
The Palms were the first portions of his collections with which he 
worked, and the first part of the * Genera et Species Palmarum’ was 
published in 1823. This was intended to be confined to Brazilian 
Palms, but was ultimately extended so as to comprise a history of the 
entire family. The work was completed in 1850, in three large folio 
volumes containing 245 plates, most of them coloured, and some of 
them exquisitely finished landscapes, exhibiting the habits of the species 
in the scenery and among the plants with which they are in nature 
associated. The first volume treats of Palms in general, and includes 
a dissertation by Mohl on monocotyledonous stems, and another by 
Unger on Fossil Palms. The second volume is devoted to Brazilian 
species, and the third is a complete monograph of the Order. The 
singular fidelity with which the descriptions were made, and the figures 
drawn, make this noble work, although some portions of it are nearly 
fifty years old, equal to the most recently published monographs. 
On a similarly magnificent scale did he design his ‘ Nova Genera 
et Species Plantarum Brasiliensis, the first volume of which, by 
Zuccarini, was published in 1824 ; the only two other volumes of this 
work published were by Martius himself, the one in 1826, and the 
other in 1829-32. 
The volume on eryptogamic plants * Icones Plant. Crypt. in Brasilia 
collegit," published between 1828 and 1834, belougs to the same 
. To the descriptions of the Ferns by Martius was prefixed an 
elaborate dissertation on the structure of the stems of Tree-ferns by 
Mohl, accompanied with eight illustrative plates. 
The magnitude of these elaborate works, and the time necessarily 
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