Views of nature: or Contemplations on the sublime phenomena of creation / with scientific illustrations

by Alexander von Humboldt

[ML]. Adrien de Jussieu, Cours de Botanique, p. 62.

[MM]. Voyage au Sénégal, 1757, p. 66.

[MN]. Fragmens d’un voyage en Afrique, t. ii. p. 92.

[MO]. Cosmos, vol. ii. p. 662. (Bohn’s Edition.)

[MP]. Decandolle, de la Longévité des Arbres, p. 65. Fine engravings of the venerable yew at Fortingal, Fountains Abbey, Ankerwyke, &c., will be found in Strutt’s magnificent work on forest trees. A very full account of the Yew-tree, with engravings, will also be found in Loudon’s Arboretum Britannicum.—Ed.

[MQ]. Endlicher, Grundzüge der Botanik, s. 399.

[MR]. Gould, Birds of Australia, vol. i. Introd. p. xv.

[MS]. Adrien de Jussieu, Cours élémentaire de Botanique, 1840, p. 61.

[MT]. Kunth, Lehrbuch der Botanik, th. i. 1847, s. 146, 164; Lindley, Introduction to Botany, 2nd ed. p. 75.

[MU]. Mühlenpfordt, Versuch einer getreuen Schilderung der Republik Mexico, bd. i. s. 153.