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laurel bushes growing at its foot and under its shelter, although 

 still small, serve to develop a dark green coppice. These are 

 two representatives of the evergreen trees of the period, which 

 constituted the greater part of the forests, and were associated 

 with thick-leaved fig-trees, some peculiar oaks, Proteacese, and 

 hollies living on the shores of the lake. On the right-hand side 

 of the Plate an Acacia rises from the herbage, showing its pods 

 and elegant pinnate leaves, which stand out beautifully from the 

 smooth mirror of the lake, stretching away towards the right, 

 and here concealed by long-leaved willows, on which are seen 

 two twining ferns (Lygodium Gaudini and L. Laharpii). These 

 ferns constitute a special form of climbing plants, with which 

 shrubby Berchemia and spinous sarsaparillas were blended. 



Only a few branches come into view of a maple rising further 

 to the right from the dense forest, and exhibiting its indented 

 foliage. Leaves of a water-lily (Nymphaa Charpentieri] float on 

 the surface of the lake, associated with a handsome Nelumbium 

 (N. Buchii), the shield-shaped leaves of which rise into the air; 

 but the Charas (Ch. Meriani and Ch. Escheri), which filled the 

 water with green masses and supplied a refuge for Limnece and 

 Cyclades creeping over their leaves, as well as for water-beetles 

 (Hydrophilus Gaudini} swimming about among them, are im- 

 mersed in the water and do not appear in the picture. Large- 

 leaved sedges and sweetrushes (Cyperi) crowned with long tufts 

 of leaves rise from the lake close to its shore, which is also here 

 and there fringed with large reeds. 



In the middle distance a group of palms is seen ; the leaves 

 of young fan- and feather-palms (Sabal, Phoenicites, and Mani- 

 caria) spread over the soil, and are reflected in the dark waters. 

 From this luxuriant mass of leaves rises the column-like stem 

 of the great fan-palm (Flabellaria Ruminiana) waving its proud 

 leafy crown towards the agure of heaven ; the feathery Phceni- 

 cites (P. spectabilis] shows its long and finely divided pinnate 

 leaves at the summit of a tall cylindrical stem ; and the large 

 flat leaves of the Manicaria (M. formosa) are seen here and 

 there torn by the wind. 



The background of the Plate is occupied by a group of Wey- 

 mouth pines (Pinus palceostrobus), and to the right of these by a 

 walnut (Juglans acuminata], as well as by a plant allied to the 



