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Crepis pabidosa^ Hieracium laevi- 
gatum. 
The full amount for purchasing 
this moorland was subscribed by 
public corporations, several natural 
history and teachers' societies, and 
private individuals. The preservation 
of this moor is extremely valuable, 
as in the whole flat land of North 
Germany only two habitats of Betula 
nana are known, namely, Neulinum 
in West Prussia, and Schafwedel in 
Hanover. These are now preserved, 
the first by the Department of Forestry 
and the other by private help. 
Some German artists at Rome 
bought the oak wood near Olevano 
in the Sabine mountains, celebrated in 
verse by v. Scheffel, and offered it to 
the German Emperor. He accepted 
the present, not for himself but for the 
German Empire. 
In Prussia, then, the care of 
