ANNOTATIONS AND ADDITIONS. 363 



two volumes, with colored drawings. Some species of Rhexia and 

 Melastoma ascend in the Andes, as alpine or Paramos shrubs, as 

 high as nine and ten thousand five hundred (about 9600 and 11,190 

 English) feet : among these are Rhexia cernua, R. stricta, Melas- 

 toma obscurum, M. aspergillare, and M. lutescens. 



f 53 ) p. 244. " Laurel-form." 



To this form belong the genera of Lauras and Persea, the Ocotese 

 so numerous in South America, and (on account of physiognomic 

 resemblance) Calophyllum, and the superb aspiring Mammea, from 

 among the Guttiferse. 



(^ p. 244 "How interesting and instructive to the landscape painter 



would be a work which should present to the eye the leading forms 



of vegetation" 



In order to define somewhat more distinctly what is here only 

 briefly alluded to, I permit myself to introduce some considerations 

 taken from a sketch of the history of landscape painting, and of a 

 graphical representation of the physiognomy of plants, which I have 

 given in the second volume of Cosmos (bd. ii. s. 8890 ; English 

 edit. vol. ii. pp. 86-87). 



"All that belongs to the expression of human emotion, and to the 

 beauty of the human form, has attained perhaps its highest perfec- 

 tion in the northern temperate zone, under the skies of Italy and 

 Greece. By the combined exercise of imitative art and of creative 

 imagination, the artist has derived the types of historical painting 

 at once from the depths of his own mind, and fronl the contempla- 

 tion of other beings of his own race. Landscape painting, though 

 no merely imitative art, has, it may be said, a more material sub- 

 stratum and a more terrestrial domain : it requires a greater mass 

 and variety of distinct impressions, which the mind must receive 

 within itself, fertilize by its own powers, and reproduce visibly as a 

 free work of art. Hence landscape painting must be a result at 

 once of a deep and comprehensive reception of the visible spectacle 

 of external nature, and of this inward process of the mind." 



" Nature, in every region of the earth, is indeed a reflex of the 

 whole : the forms of organized beings are repeated everywhere in 



