346 GEOGRAPHICAL BOTANY. 



mayerina Vis., which was figured, in the Flora Dalma- 

 tica, into a separate genus as Amphoricarpos (Giorn. Bot. 

 It,, vol. i, p. 196). 



Ebel's essay on Montenegro (Zwolf Tage auf Monte- 

 negro, Hft. 2. Konigsberg, 1844, 8vo), contains a cata- 

 logue of all the Phanerogamous plants hitherto observed 

 in Dalmatia (2003 sp.), with a statement of the frequency 

 of their occurrence, expressed in a manner peculiar to 

 the author, but the localities are not given. It contains 

 preliminary observations upon the statistical relations of 

 the flora of Dalmatia, in which the most abundant families 

 form the following series, according to the number of 

 species contained in them : Synantheraceae (225 sp.), 

 Leguminosae (220 sp.), Graminaceae (142 sp.), Cruciferae 

 (107 sp.), Umbelliferae (103 sp.), Labiatae (91 sp.), Ga- 

 ry ophyllacece (85 sp.), Scrophulariaceae (82 sp.), Liliaceae 

 (61 sp.), Rosaceae (59 sp.), Ranunculaceae (54 sp.), Orchi- 

 daceae (46 sp.), Cyperaceae (43 sp.), Boraginaceae (42 sp.) 

 The reports upon the vegetation of Montenegro itself, the 

 productions of which, according to the author, entirely 

 agree with those of Dalmatia, belong here. This small 

 tract of land, which is covered with arid, rocky mountain- 

 pastures, and elevated into limestone summits, which are 

 either barren or slightly surrounded with forests of pines, 

 and from which narrow fluviatile valleys descend to the 

 sea of Scutari, is extremely unfruitful from a deficiency 

 of soil and water. Nevertheless, the plants appear, as in 

 Dalmatia, to be various, 450 sp. having already been 

 mentioned by the author : there are no new ones among 

 them, the two which are proposed as new are untenable. 



In my work upon Rumelia and Bithynia (Spicilegium 

 Floras Rumelicae et Bithynicae, exhibens synopsin plan- 

 tarum, quas anno 1839 legi: accedunt species, quas in 

 iisdem terris lectas communicarunt Friedrichsthal, Fri- 

 waldzki, Pestalozza vel plene descriptas reliquerunt Bux- 

 baum, Forskal, Sibthorp, alii; vols. i, ii, Brunsnigae, 

 1843-4, 8vo), 2300 Phanerogamous plants are treated 

 of systematically, and in regard to their geographical dis- 



