68 FLORA OF DALMATIA. 
phical Journal, under the title of ‘‘ A Journal of a Tour to 
the Coast of the Adriatic Sea, and to the Mountains of Carni- 
ola, Carinthia,” &c. In some respects the two countries are 
similar, and Baron Von Welden offers some points of com- 
parison with a considerable portion (Istria) of those which 
are so well described by Hoppe and Hornschurch.—W. J. H.] 
ZARA, IN DALMATIA. 
If an earnest desire to promote the interests of our society; 
and of Science in general, can enable me to be of use in any way, 
you may depend on my best endeavours. I had scarcely en- 
tered Dalmatia, when I looked earnestly around upon its Flora: 
but the advanced state of vegetation, the intolerable heat, and 
want of rain, had already destroyed most of the plants, and, 
instead of flowers, I collected nothing but seeds. Along the 
whole tract, from Carlstadt to the foot of the Vellebit at 
Grachatz, comprehending a part of the military boundary, I 
only found a few interesting plants on the Capella Mountain: 
Pyrethrum macrophyllum, Buphthalmum ( Teleckia) speciosum, 
and Hypericum Reicheri, reminding me of the analogy to the 
Hungarian Flora; while Scutellaria orientalis belonged to the 
productions of Dalmatia. The Capella is a wooded mountain; 
whose highest point, the Kleck, does not exceed 4,000 feet; itis 
throughout of chalk formation, with the peculiar character 
of the country about Trieste, yet, owing probably to the 
woods, the vegetation has little in common with it. Digi- E 
talis lanata and Veronica foliosa, I found not far from the 
waterfall of the Gaczka, near Ottochar: this river only runs 
for a few leagues above ground, turning several mills close to 
its source, on the mountain Koren, at Urelo; then forming  . 
lakes and swamps, and sinking into the soil at Svicze, in à 
basin below the Vellebit, in the district of St. George at Zengg, 
to empty itself thus into the sea. Chaff and other small float- 
ing bodies, if thrown into this stream at Svicze, reappear in ten 
or twelve hours at St. George's, All the streams that rise wes- 
terly on the Capella have this character, asthey run towards the 
sea below the Vellebit; while those which rise easterly g° 
