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Notes on the Flora of Holstein. By W. Lauper Linpsay, 
: M.D., Perth. 
The following Notes refer to plants seen or collected during 
a botanical excursion in Schleswig-Holstein, in August, 1850. 
This district has a very rich flora: and it deserves greater atten- 
tion than hitherto from British botanists. It is now within easy 
access from our chief seaports; and a trip to the south of Den- 
mark vid Hamburg can be made as cheaply as an excursion to 
Wales or the Scotch Highlands. The more abundant or more 
interesting plants alone are mentioned in the following list. 
Fuller details may be gathered from Sickmann’s ‘ Enumeratio 
Stirpium. Phanerogamicarum circa Hamburgum sponte crescen- 
tium,’ Koch’s ‘Synopsis Flore Germanice,’ and Hornemann’s 
‘Flora Danica:’ but there appears to be no special Holstein 
Flora extant. 
Aster Novi-Belgii, A. salignus, and A. parviflorus, all grow in 
considerable abundance among the Willows and Reeds on 
the banks of the Elbe, about a mile below the fishing village 
of Blankenese. They are probably not originally natives of 
Holstein, but are now completely and extensively natural- 
ized there: their native country is North America, whence 
the seeds have accidentally been brought by shipping. 
Psamma arenaria is very extensively diffused, and is of great 
service, along with other sand plants, in binding the shift- 
ing sand-dunes. 
Artemisia campestris. Abundant on the gravel hills on the banks 
of the Elbe, below Blankenese. A. Absinthiwm and vul- 
garis, also plentiful on waste ground about Schenefeld and 
elsewhere. 
Asparagus officinalis. IT met with only one large plant of it in 
the woods on the Blankenese gravel hills, below that village. 
The station was pointed out to me by Mr. Matthew, of 
Schenefeld. 
Bidens cernua and tripartita, with varieties, are very common in 
ditches and pools everywhere. 
Butomus umbellaius. Abundant in ditches and ene on the 
banks of the Elbe, below Blankenese. 
Campanula, sp.? Pretty frequent in the marshy thickets on the 
Elbe, below Blankenese. i 
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