PROF. GOEPPERT 



! — EOTANIC GARDEN AT BRESLAT7. 



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eighty-four groups of this character ; and a synoptic table, placed 

 at the entrance of the garden, presents the essential details. Near 

 each group a smaller tablet is placed, which comprises the 

 principal genera. Fifty-six of these groups belong to the principal 

 forms of plants over the whole globe, and twenty-six to the 

 collective plants of a single country or zone. Amongst the first 

 are found groups of mosses, lichens, ferns of the arctic, temperate, 

 and torrid zones, arads, orchids, climbing plants of every kind, 

 arborescent Liliaceae, grasses of the different zones (comprising 

 those with an arboreous habit), Bananas, Zingiberaceae, Cannaceae, 

 different kinds and forms of Ananas, Agave and Begonia, Casuari- 

 neae, Palms, Ericeae of different zones, Conifers of the northern 

 and southern hemisphere (Abietineae, Cupressineae, Podocarpeae, 

 Taxineas), Cycadeas, Proteaceae, Myrtaceae, Cacti, fleshy -leaved 

 plants (as Crassulaceae, Aizoideae,Mesembryanthema, Aloes, Agaves, 

 Stapelias &c), green trees of various species and countries — as 

 deciduous trees, those of the temperate zone of Europe, Asia, and 

 America, of the warmer parts of that zone in Europe and America, 

 with simple or compound leaves ; finally, evergreen trees, of the 

 temperate zone of Europe, America, and Asia, especially China 

 and Japan, the Alps, subtropical Asia, the Himalayas, and the 

 torrid zone. Then follow groups of Acacia, Mimosa, and plants 

 of the same tribes, Umbelliferae, Malvaceae, Solanaceae, &c. 



To give a general notion of the collective forms of plants of 

 different zones, there are groups of plants of the arctic and sub- 

 arctic zones, those of the Alps, of which we cultivate about 400 

 species, the groups of plants of Southern Europe, North America, 

 Mexico, the tropics, Chili, the Canary Isles, the Cape of Good 

 Hope, China, Japan, Australia, &c. All these groups and these 

 general views of the vegetation of a single country may be much 

 more complete elsewhere, according to the abundance of materials 

 and the difference of localities. 



In our garden, the label of each plant contains not only its 

 systematic name, but also that of its natural order, country, and 

 use in medicine or art, as : — IZhoeades, Crucifercc : Cocldearia offi- 

 cinalis, L. Offic. Hb. Coclilearice. JEmop. Septentrion. litore. Be- 

 sides, as regards plants cultivated in the open air, every family 

 possesses a special synoptic table, which is a considerable aid to 

 the student, and undoubtedly deserves adoption in other botanic 

 gardens. 



Although, as we have already said, the natural system has 

 served as the base and rule of all arrangements, it nevertheless 



