FLORA OF DALMATIA. 69 
towards the Culpa. That part of Military Croatia which is 
situated between the Vellebit and the Capella, forms an im- 
mense basin, that may, long ago, have been a large lake, whose 
mass of waters, being unable to penetrate the firm limestone 
mountains, have worked out a way by means of subterranean 
caverns. When entering on the new road at St. Roch, which 
is now carried over the Vellebit, and which leads to the prin- 
cipal passage through the Licca of Golspich over Zermagna to 
Dalmatia, and ascendsalong the foot of Monte Santo to the ridge 
called Pragg, you have, as far as an elevation of 4000 feet, 
nothing but the continued and uninteresting vegetation of the 
Licca. Monte Santo is the highest point of the Vellebit; its 
top is 6420 feet above the level of the sea, and as the Licca 
River, near Golspich, issituated 1534 feet above the sea, Monte 
Santo exceds it by 4886 feet. The subalpine vegetation occurs 
only at its summit, whence I have Achillea Clavenne, Senecio 
abrotanifolius, a Campanula, closely related to linifolia, but 
with very small blossoms, a large-flowered Satureja that seemed 
new to me, and Lilium Chalcedonicum: but no truly alpine 
plants, though there are plenty of Chamois in the defiles, and of 
Bears and Wolves in the lower regions. The Point of Pragg, 
where the new road of the Vellebit will cross, is situated at 3190 
feet above the sea. Although the southern side, by which 
you descend into the Valley of Zermagna to Obravazzo, has 
the same chalk formation as the northern, yet a totally different 
and more southerly vegetation prevails. Iberis semperflorens, 
Alyssum Gemonense, Bupleurum aristatum, Scolymus Hispani- 
cus, Fraxinus Ornus, Euphorbia spinosa, Paliuris australis, 
Osyris alba, Pistacia Lentiscus and Terebinthus, Quercus 
Ilex, &c.; satisfactorily prove the difference of climate, if even 
the different aspect of every object that meets the eye did not 
attest the alteration that has taken place. 
The view of Dalmatia that is gained from the summit of 
the Vellebit is any thing but attractive. Grey masses of stone, 
Partially covered with evergreen shrubs, that look black in the 
distance, no trace of culture, or of regular dwellings, seem 
to warn the traveller to retrace his steps, even if we omit all 
