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Flora 1843. Band 2 Zwei pflanzengeographische Documente von J. F. Drege & D^r E. Meyer.

p. 6. Drege estimates plants S. of P. Natal & mouth of Gariep R. from 16000 to 20,000 species / p.8 only 200 wide ranging species at most / p 9, - 96 species in common with Europe, but even these have narrower range in Africa than in North - Few social species. - Probably many introduced of the 96.

p. 12. points out relation of few social plants with number of species & restriction of their ranges.

p. 13. list of various Floras, & shows by Table as the number of species increases so does number genera, but in an unequal ratio. -

Genera to species probably truly is 1 : 6 have this proportion. -

p. 14. List of large genera. in Dreges collection, viz Senecio 151, Pelargonium 148, Erica 139, Oxalis 83, ... Phylica 46, Gladiolus 40 - // 369, out of 1008 ie total genera with only 1 species. -

p. 43. Total Phanerogams 6595 specis collected by him. -

p. 16. New Hollands want 38 families f^d in S. Africa. but S. Africa wants only 18 families f^d in New Holland.

p. 18. S. Africa has species of all true genera of Geraniaceae.

p. 26. Besides th Ericaceae, many families have majority of their species with heath-like foliage, & even almost

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(Even some papilionaceous & compositous plants) every family, not very small, has some species with heath like foliage - so with plants with fleshy leaves. - This is good as showing relation to conditions which would have never been suspected in our heaths.

p. 52. on the Witberge, on which Snow lies (p.16) for only 3 months, in Lat 30°-31°, height 7000-8000 ft. - Geum, Epilobium, Pimpinella, Galium, Taenacetum, Myosotis, Dianthus, which Hooker says are northern forms but not Europaean species. not found in Tropics. (Anemone, I am not sure that I asked Hooker): I think fewness of forms which have ascended mountains, & apparently no identical species, may be accounted for by very peculiar climate, & already well stocked land. - I cannot make out from not knowing ranges of species, whether distant mountains have same species, with intermediate spaces without such species. -

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