XXIV NOTES. 



Geschichte der Erfindungen, Bd. iv. S. 287) ; and Linnaeus even asserts, fn 

 the Musa Cliffortiana florens Hartecampi, that the first banana which flowered 

 in Europe was at Vienna, in the garden of Prince Eugene, in 1731. 



t 125 ) p. 83. These views of tropical vegetation, illustrative of the " phy- 

 siognomy of plants," form, in the Royal Museum at Berlin (in the department 

 of miniatures, drawings, and engravings), a treasure of art which, for its 

 peculiarity and picturesque variety, is as yet without a parallel in any other 

 collection. The sheets edited by the Baron von Kittlitz are entitled, " Vege- 

 tations Ansichten der Kiistenlander und Inseln des stillen Oceans, aufgenom- 

 men 1827 -1829 auf der Entdeckungs-reise der kais. russ. Corvette Senjawin, 

 (Siegen, 1844). There is also great truth to nature in the drawings of Carl 

 Bodmer, which are engraved in a masterly manner, and illustrate the great 

 work of the travels of Prince Maximilian zu Wied in the interior of North 

 America. 



( 126 ) p. 88. Humboldt, Ansichten der Natur, 2te Ausgabe, 1826, Bd. i. 

 S. 7, 16, 21, 36, and 42. Compare also two very instructive memoirs, Friedrich 

 von Martius, Physionomie des Pflanzenreicb.es in Brasilien, 1824, and M. von 

 Olfers, allgemeine Uebersicht von Brasilien, in Feldners Reisen, 1828, Bd. r. 

 S. 1823. 



( 12 7) p. 94. Wilhelm von Humboldt, in his Briefwechsel mit Schiller, 

 1830, S. 470. 



( 128 ) p. 95. Diodor. ii. 13. He however gives to the celebrated gardens 

 of Semiramis a circumference of only twelve stadia. The district near the 

 pass of Bagistanos is still called the " bow or circuit of the garden" Tauk-i- 

 bostan (Droysen, Gesch. Alexanders des Grossen, 1833, S. 553). 



( 129 ) p. 95. In the Schahnameh of Firdusi it is said, "a slender cypress, 

 sprung from Paradise, did Zerdusht plant before the gate of the temple of fire" 

 (at Kishmeer in Khorasan). " He had written on the tall cypress tree, that 

 Gushtasp had embraced the true faith, that the slender tree was a testimony 

 thereof, and that thus did God extend righteousness. When many years had 

 passed over, the tall cypress became so large that the hunter's cord could not 

 go ro^ad its circumference. When its top was furnished with many branches, 



he encompassed it with a palace of pure gold and caused it to be said 



abroad in the world, Where is there on the earth a cypress like that of 

 Kishmeer ? God sent it me from Paradise, and said, Bow thyself from thence 

 to Paradise." (When the Caliph Motewekkil had the sacred cypresses of 

 the Magians cut down, this one was said to be 1450 years old.) Compare 

 Yuller's Fragmente iiber die Religion des Zoroaster, 1831, S. 71 and 114; 



