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covered with forests, one-seventh cultivated, and about one- 

 third consists in meadows and pasture land, there being but 

 little unproductive land. The highest mountain in Krain, 

 the Terglon, is 9036 feet high and covered with eternal snow. 

 In the plains of Krain there are vineyards and orchards; in 

 the warmer Innerkrain, even figs, pomegranates, Laurus no- 

 biliSy Zizyphus vulgaris, &c. grow. The chief portion of the 

 wood in Krain consists however of just the same ordinary 

 trees as adorn the woods of Germany ; the heights of these 

 woods are it is true entirely wanting, although this is most im- 

 portant ; yet I suspect that they are situated above 15 to 1600 

 feet, since the greatest number of ascertained heights in this 

 country lie between 2 and 3000 feet ; consequently here, ac- 

 cording to the rules laid dow r n by me, the region of deciduous 

 trees must predominate, and the character of the vegetation 

 accordingly be similar to that on the northern side of the Alps. 

 The underwood, i. e. the shrubs, are also quite the same as 

 those that principally occur in the plains of Germany. 



In the garden at Laibach (46 2' north, lat.) a number of 

 plants of the subtropical zone, such as Magnolice, Laurus Sas- 

 safras, Aucuha japonica, &c. pass through the winter. Krain 

 is so rich in plants that M. Graf has found there nearly one- 

 third of all the plants of Germany, viz. 1654 species. The 

 family of the Composites contains 8*7 of the entire number, 

 the Grammes 13'8, the Papilionacece 15'6, and the former 

 are more numerous in individuals. The Umbelliferae amount 

 to 19'2 of the number, the Cruciferce 20'4, the Personates 

 21*0, the Labiates 21 -2, the Rosacecz 23 '0, the Cyperoidce 25 -4, 

 the Ranunculacece 27*1? and the Caryophyllacece to 27*5. 



M. Graf* has also enumerated a number of plants which 

 flower in various months on the Grosskahlen mountain near 

 Laibach. 



We have obtained a highly valuable memoir from M. Aug. 

 de Saint-Hilaire t on the primitive vegetation of a portion of 

 Brazil, the botanical treasures of which have been so carefully 

 investigated by him. Just as the vegetation in the most cul- 

 tivated lands of Europe must have at present an appearance 



* Der Grosskahlenberg bei Laibach. Flora von 1837. No. 42. 

 f Tableau geographique de la vegetation primitive dans la Province de 

 Minas Geraes, Paris, 1837, 8vo. Extr. des Nouv. Ann. des Voyages. 



