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making treatise upon the whole subject of the protection of nature 

 and natural monuments. A Prussian state bureau was then founded 

 in Danzig in 1906, and transferred to Berlin in 1910. A few examples 

 of individual plant dangers and protection are now in order. 



Eryngium maritimum (Sea Holly), a plant growing along the 

 coasts of the Baltic, has been torn out in such quantities for floristic 

 uses as to be seriously endangered. Attention having been called to 

 this fact, it has been placed upon the list of plants that should be 

 protected and the plucking forbidden. 



Betula nana (Dwarf Birch), a species that is common in Scan- 

 dinavia, Finland and Russia, is found in only a very few places in 

 Germany and is much endangered by the cultivation of the moors 

 in which it grows. This plant is now protected everywhere, partly 

 by the reservation of the places where it grows, e. g., in Neulinum, 

 near the Drewenzerwald, and partly by protection of individual 

 plants or groups. 



Cypripedium calceolus (Venus Slipper), a beautiful orchid. 



Trapa natans, a curious water plant, and others. 



Ilex aquifoliiim (Holly), Taxus baccata (Yew), Vis cum album 

 (Mistletoe), are also protected in localities where they are rare or in 

 danger of extermination, e. g., the yew in the Fies Busch, of 45.7 

 acres. 



An interesting plant association is a salt marsh near Artern, 

 Saxony, which was threatened by cultivation but has been preserved 

 together with the typical growths of Ruppia rostellata, Cladium 

 Mariscus, Glaux maritima, and others. 



In Brandenburg, near the ruins of the Abbey of Chorin, the 

 Plagefenn and See have been reserved as an absolute sanctuary 

 by the State Forest Administration. This district comprises 417 

 acres, and consists of forest, moor and lake, constituting a typical 

 Brandenburg landscape, with characteristic plant associations and 

 formations, which has remained untouched by the hand of man 

 since its inauguration in 1907. 



A large tract of three to four German square miles, in the Liine- 

 burger Heide, has been acquired by the Stuttgart " Verein Natur- 

 schutzpark." This district includes the Wilseder Berg, the highest 

 elevation in the Northwest German plain, and represents a well- 

 preserved and typical moor and heather country. 



In the administrative district of Cassel, at Sababurg, the Reinhards- 

 wald of about 133 acres of forest, consisting of particularly fine old 

 beeches and oaks, some of the latter having a circumference of 



