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162 Professor Horneman on the Vegetation of 
I regretted very much that the smallness of my party, and. more 
particularly the late season of the year, rendered it imprudent 
to go far enough north, to have an opportunity of seeing them. 
To the Right Honourable Earl Bathurst, 
Secretary of State for the Colonies, &c. &c. &c. 
W. E. CORMACK. 
Ajit. XXVI. — Remarks 07i the Vegetation of the Danish Pro- 
vinces. By Professor Horneman 
Of Danish Provinces, Zealand is the richest in plants, 
and contains 56 species, which have not been discovered in the 
other parts of Denmark. This, however, is certainly owing to 
its having been more thoroughly investigated than any of the 
others. 
A sensible difference may be observed between the Floras of 
the NE. and SW. parts of this island : the division may be well 
shewn, by drawing a line from Copenhagen to Nyekiobing. Se- 
veral plants occur in the SW. parts which are not found in the 
NE., though none have been remarked in the latter, which have 
not also been found in the other parts. 
Jutland comes next, having 35 plants peculiar to itself. Were 
this promontory as well examined as the other provinces, the 
result would undoubtedly be to its advantage, as the influence 
of the Continent is very evident in it. Not one of the Danish 
provinces, in so short' a space, shews such a diflerence in the na- 
tural productions as the east and west coasts of Jutland: the 
former possesses a fertile soil and a flourishing vegetation, 'while 
the latter consists of an almost entirely barren and constantly 
moving sand. Between the two extends that remarkable heath, 
which stretches from the point of Skagen far into Germany. 
In that part of Jutland north of Randersfiord, we find marks 
of a more northern vegetation. In Vensyssel Cornus suecica is 
abundant, in other parts of Denmark it is rare. 
The following plants appear to have attained their most north- 
ern limits in Jutland : Veroiiica longifolia^ Sesleria ( Air a ) 
• Extracted and translated from Professor Horneman’s paper in the Transac- 
tions of the Danish Philosophical Society, 18^1. 
