Die Vegetation der Erde

Abstract

THIS work is an elaborate monograph on the distribution of the vegetation in the Hercynian district of Germany, and forms the sixth volume in Drs. Engler and Drude's series “Die Vegetation der Erde.” Dr. Oscar Drude, the author, the professor of botany at Dresden, has long been an accepted authority on the various problems connected with plant geography. In his “Deutschlands Pflanzen-geographie,” published in 1895, he defined seven regions of vegetation in the German flora, and in the present work he deals much more exhaustively with the mountainous and hilly country which stretches from the Hartz to the Rhön, reaching to Lausitz on the east and to the Böhmer Walde. The botanical literature of the area with which he deals is extensive, as it has been known to botanists ever since the time of Valerius Cordus, who was born in 1515. In 1588 Johann Thai wrote his, “Sylva Hercynia”, which was a catalogue of the plants growing in that district, and in the same year Joachim Camerarius published a work containing some curious coloured figures of some of the plants.

Die Vegetation der Erde.

vi. Der Hercynische Florenbezirk. Von Dr. Oscar Drude. Pp. xix + 671; mit 5 Vollbildern, 16 Textfiguren, und 1 Karte, (Leipzig: W. Engelmann.) Price 30 marks; Subscription price 20 marks.