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With respect ti) the other northern countries, tlie Flora 

 Danica, by Martin Vahl and James AViJkin Hornemann, was 

 continued to the end of the ninth voknne. In Sweden, J. W. 

 Pahnstruch and C W. Venus, pubhshed a Swedish l^olany, 

 beginning in 1802, after the model of the English Botany ; 

 and George Wahlenberg published a masterl)/ work, entitled 

 Flora Lapponica, Berlin, 1812. 



Among the districts of Poland, those which are most south- 

 erly were examined in a very complete manner by W. S. 

 J. G. Besser, professor at Krzeminiec, in Podolia, and his 

 Primitia3 Flora? Galiciae, Vienna, 1809, in two volumes, be- 

 long to the class of the most perfect works of this kind. 



The rich treasures of Hungary, and of the neighbouring 

 territories, were examined at the cxpence of Count Francis 

 von Waldstein, by Paul Kitaibel, professor at Pesth, who 

 died 1817, and were made known in his masterly work, en- 

 titled Descriptiones et Icones Plantar um Ilariorum Hunga- 

 rise, Vienna, 1803 to 1812, in three volumes. The Tran- 

 sylvanian Flora also, found an editor in Job. Christ. Gottl. 

 Baumgarten, physician at Schiisburg, whose Enumeratio 

 Stirpium Transylvaniae was published in three volumes, at 

 Vienna, 1816. 



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Among foreign countries, which, in recent times, have been 

 examined by botanists, we begin with the Levant. Johi\ 

 Sibthorp, professor at Oxford, twice examined Greece and 

 Asia Minor, and was only prevented by death from {)ub- 

 hshing his discoveries. In consequence of his will, however, 

 a magnificent work, entitled Flora Gra^ca, has been published 

 since the year 1806, — a useful compend of which work has 

 been pubhshed, in two volumes, by Sir James l^dward Smith, 

 in the Prodromus Flora? Gra?ca>, London, 1806 to 1813. 

 The Icones Plantarum Syriae Ilariorum of Jacob Julius la 

 Billardiere, published at Paris, 1791, also deserve to be 

 mentioned with applause. The Aiabian plants, brought by 

 Forskol, were re-examined by Martin Vahl, and described, 

 along with many other plants brought from Malabar, by 



