Plants 
21 
years ago, a man was arrested who 
had collected about 700 specimens. 
Though he had not previously been 
convicted, he received a sentence of a 
fortnight s imprisonment. The judge 
remarked : The Civil Court has 
been obliged to have recourse to 
this somewhat drastic punishment, 
because, in the neighbourhood of Jena, 
where it is well known that the most 
rare and beautiful orchids occur, the 
unscrupulous uprooting of these rare 
plants has become such a nuisance 
that unless severe measures are taken 
to prevent this practice, the time is 
not far distant when the most beauti- 
ful ornaments of our Flora will have 
been exterminated.'' 
At Munich, I saw one day in 1902 
on the open market, seventeen various 
species of wild mountain plants, and 
bunches of six to ten plants of the 
Lady's slipper were to be had for a 
penny! In the kingdom of Saxony, 
