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Notes on the Hartz Flora. By W. Lauper Linpsay, M.D. 
At a time when weekly steam communication with Leith, 
Hull, London, and others of our great seaports, brings Hamburg 
almost to our doors,—when the facilities for continental travel- 
ling are greater than those for explormg many parts of our own 
island, it is matter of surprise that the Hartz Mountains are 
not more familiar to British botanists. A pedestrian tour during 
the summer of 1850 convinced me of the excellence of this field, 
not only for the botanist, mineralogist, and geologist, but for the 
mere tourist—the wanderer in search of novelty and change of 
air. The mineral treasures of the district are exceedingly varied ; 
its geological relations are most instructive; its flora, in conse- 
quence of the circumscribed character of the Hartz range, which 
rises from the midst of the vast plain of North Germany, is 
peculiar and rich; and the Hartz scenery bears a great resem- 
blance to that of the finest parts of the Highlands of Scotland. 
During several wanderings on the Continent, as well as at home, 
I have met with no more pleasant and easy tour than that of the 
Hartz. The Hanover and Brunswick railway conveys the tourist 
direct from Hamburg to the foot of the Brocken, and he can 
readily explore the whole district in a week. 'The intending tra- 
veller will find Brederlow’s guide* an invaluable assistance: it is 
much more scientific in its nature than the majority of guide- 
books, containing as it does copious notes on the Natural History 
of the Hartz district. With a view to illustrate the general cha- 
racters of the Hartz Flora, I append a list of the more interesting 
plants which occur at or about the chief localities generally vi- 
sited by tourists. 
In the vicinity of Schierke and Elend, at the base of the 
Brocken,—a district rendered classical by Goethe’s ‘ Faust,’— 
occur— 
Imperatoria Ostruthium. Myosotis sparsiflora. Ranunculus aconitifolius. 
Myrrhis odorata. Sonchus alpinus. Ayrabis Halleri. Hieracium pratense. 
Near Elbingerode :— 
Orchis ustulata. Habenaria viridis. Gymnadenia albida. 

* “Der Harz: zur Belehrung und Unterhaltung fiir Harz-reisende,” von C. G. Fr. 
Brederlow. 
1 Comparatively a rare plant in the Hartz. 
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