FRIEDRICH WELWITSCH. 3 
Portuguese language, and then more anny: ares himself to 
the investigation of the flora of the coun ny, visiting the Serras de 
Cintra, d i indee 
herbarium of Portuguese plants contains more 
3 8 own private 
_ 9000 species, each represented by a large series of well-preserved 
show 
xamples selected to all stages and conditions of the sees with 
the t tickets furnished in many eases with careful descriptio d 
synonymy. In August, 1841, Dr. Welwitsch had the pleasure of 
meeting Robert Brown, who accompanied him for a three days’ excur- 
sion to the Valle de Zebro. The remembrance of this was always plea- 
sant to Dr. Welwitsch, who used to show with satisfaction a pocket 
lens which the great English botanist had given n him on the occasion. 
In 1847 and 1848 Algarvia, the southernmost province of the kingdom, 
which had been very little known to botanists, was explored. 
Saeae had for his companion in this journey the young Count 
‘* Flora”; and in his zeal after Alge, in which he found the Tagus 
very rich ~ — accustomed to spend hours ‘‘up to his waist in 
ry rich, 
water” da r day. In the second volume of the ‘ Actas” of 
the Lisbon fm (1850) he published the ‘‘Genera Phycearum 
Lusitane other results of his work i Cryptogamia 
were publishe ‘‘ Enumeration of th usci 
by Mr. Mitten, and in ‘Notes on the Fungi,’’ by the Rev. M. 
J. Berkeley. He himself published little else on Portuguese plants 
—a very short note in the ‘‘Flora”’ for 1849 (p. 528) on a few semi- 
tropical forms apparently indigenous to the country; a paper on 
Oaks (Carvalho) of Portugal, printed in 1861 (in the Portuguese 
‘The Bry 1,”’ in the 
tribution siakionce _ 1872), being all that I can discover. His 
working copy of Bro tero’ ats Flora “ectnanre is, however, filled with 
sdsted, and which would probably add a number of i 
the European flora, besides throwing antidecabse light on the rela- 
tionships of the extreme south-west of Europe with the coun’ 
the north, the Atlantic islands, and North Africa respectively. It is 
therefore to be hoped that Dr. Welwitsch’s valuable material will be 
made full use of by the author of the contemplated oe Flora of 
