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tation unknown to Europe, till his travels and his extensive correspond- 

 ence caused it to be introduced. 



He is succeeded in the professorship, and in the garden, by his son Joseph 

 Francis, who is publishing the " Eclogw Botanies" in the same style of 

 splendour as that with which so many of his father's works have appeared. 



The same city, Vienna, boasts the " Plants rariores Hongaricw" oiWald- 

 stein and Kitaibel in three vols, folio, a work which has made known to us a 

 great number of plants that have recently been discovered in that interest- 

 ing country ; and the labours of Host, author of a Flora Aastriaca, and of a 

 work on " Grasses and Cyperacew," in four vols, folio, (which, for the execu- 

 tion of the plates, can scarcely be exceeded,) who is also now engaged in a 

 publication of equal or greater interest, on the " Willows" of Austria : in- 

 deed, we have been promised the appearance of the first volume of this latter 

 work, of 100 coloured plates, in the course of the last year, 1825. 



Upon the occasion of the marriage of a Princess of the House of Austria 

 with the Crown Prince of Brazil, the Austrian Government sent out two 

 naturalists, Br Mikan and Br Pohl, to investigate the botany of Brazil. 

 The result of their researches has in part been published by Mikan, in his 

 " Beliciw Flora; et Fauna Brasiliensis :" wlulst Br Pohl has prepared for 

 publication 100 drawings of Brazilian plants, and Mr Schott is engaged 

 in editing the Brazilian Ferns. Trattinich, besides many other botanical 

 works, has lately given to the world, as part of a Species Planlarum, under 

 the title of " St/nodus Botanicus," a monograph of the Rosacece in 12mo. 

 Nor must we omit to mention, among the botanists of the Austrian capital, 

 Mr Ferdinand Bauer, the most beautiful designer of plants that probably 

 ever lived. 



The botanic garden of Vienna, the oldest we believe in Germany, was 

 established by order of Maximilian, and the direction of it was given to 

 L'Ecluse (ox ClusiusJ to whom our gardens and shrubberies are indebted 

 for the introduction of the Cherry Laurel (Prwius Lauro-CerasusJ and the 

 Horse-Chesnut ( JEsculus Hippocastanum) which he received, among many 

 other plants, from the imperial ambassador at the Porte in 1576. " All 

 the rest of the cargo perished, but Clusius bestowed the greatest possible 

 attention to preserve and increase these; for, unlike many selfish collec- 

 tors, he delighted to disperse his treasures among those who took pleasure 

 in their acquisition ; and it is but just that his memory should be perpe- 

 tuated along with those two beautiful trees, with which all botanists of 

 taste ought for ever to associate his name, thus giving him a monument 

 more lasting than brass or marble." * 



In 1580 a botanic garden was formed at Leipzig by the Elector of Sax- 

 ony ; at Giessen in 1 605, and again at Altorf in 1 625, both through the in- 

 terest of Jangtnnann ; at Jena in 1629 ; since which period the German 

 universities have each possessed their botanical institutions; and, what lias 

 perhaps contributed still more towards the advancement of a knowledge 

 of plants, many of the German princes anil nobility have carried to the 



• Sec Smith's Life of Cluriut in Reef Cyclopedia, 

 VOL. V. NO. II. OCTOBER 1826. A a 



