86 FLORA OF DALMATIA. 
changed it for the noble champaigns of Italy, to which its 
delicious climate is more suited than to the rude people who 
inhabit it. My intention is fulfilled, if this slight sketch en- 
courage others in further investigation. 
SPRING FLORA OF DALMATIA. 
The winter of the year 1829-30, so abundant in unusual 
phenomena all over Europe, had also its peculiar effect on the 
wild coasts of Dalmatia. We had constant Siroccos till the 
beginning of December, a little of the Bora (north wind), and 
the thermometer down to 0°. Crocus odorus (?) serotinus? 
Bert., was the last flower that this month permitted to sur- 
vive. January was at first cold; that is, there were some 
nights when we had 2° on the coast; it also snowed a few 
times. The Sirocco likewise continued, and on the 12th and 
19th there were violentstorms, attended with earthquakes,which 
were more strongly felt at the district of Ragusa. ‘The tem- 
perature rose to 7°, and on the 18th January I gathered Col- 
chicum montanum (for various reasons not the plant of Lin- 
neus), Calendula arvensis, and Bellis perennis, while Hellebo- 
rus multifidus blossomed in the gardens; and the mountains, 
down to the middle regions, were still clothed with snow. The 
cold soon returned, and February brought such weather as 
had been never heard of in Dalmatia; the 3d was the 
coldest day, and at four in the morning the thermometer stood, 
near the sea, at 6}°, and the snow was a foot deep. Winter 
did not take its departure till the middle of the month, and 
then the spring came on most rapidly, the genial rays of 
the sun wakening the sleeping plants, and the thermo- 
meter, when protected from the wind, indicating 11», On 
the 20th February, when engaged in botanizing, I was sur- 
rounded with swarms of butterflies; every tree and shrub was 
bursting into leaf, and this is the list of what I found from the 
end of January to that time, arranged in the order in which ! 
gathered the plants. Calendula officinalis, Ranunculus Ficari, 
Viola odorata, Erica Mediterranea, Mercurialis annua, Alys- 
