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Flora, if we merely speak of the town, is a Flora of the forests of inferior regions; but, if we include the Metalliferous Mountains (Erzgebirge) and their highest points so far as Gottesgab, this forest region extends from one of its limits to the other.

Although some plants of the plains of Bohemia are found about Carlsbad, they do not properly belong to its Flora, and it is only near Lipkowitz, twenty english miles from Carlsbad, towards the interior of Bohemia, that we find, in great quantity, the species and individuals common to plains.

This Flora distinguishes itself principally by plants peculiar to the forests of the middle and North of Germany, and even by those which are found in the northern parts of that country, and still more by