SOME MATERIALS FOR THE ILLUSTRATION 

 OF THE 



BOTANICAL GEOGRAPHY 



OF THE 



SOUTH-WESTERN PARTS OF EUROPE, 

 BY PROFESSOR LINK. 



[Translated from the German]* 



IF it is important to the mineralogist to know 

 what fossils he is to expect in any particular place, 

 it may be fupposed of equal importance to the 

 naturalist, who wishes to form a judgment of the 

 climate of a particular country, and of its present 

 or possible productions, to become acquainted 

 with the plants of it, whether they be indi- 

 genous or exotic. Botanical geography forms 

 a distinguished but hitherto neglected branch of 

 geology. What I have to offer are mere fragments 



* From H. F. Link's Beitrage zur Naturgeschichie. Vol. 2. 1801. 

 p.x8y. 



