222 FIRST JOURNEY IN EUROPE. [1839, 



saw him at his hotel. He is a little fellow about thirty, 

 with a small expressive countenance. He works chiefly 

 at minute fungi, on which he is publishing a large 

 work. I saw a part of it in London. He showed me 

 an immense quantity of drawings, which he makes 

 with great rapidity. He is also publishing a work 

 supplementary to Sternberg's " Flora of the Former 

 World," a work of which Corda did a good part. He 

 gave me two copies of a lithograph of Count Stern- 

 berg, now dead, as you know, done by himself. 

 I observe by his drawings that he has anticipated an 

 unpublished discovery of Valentine's, which he showed 

 to Lindley and myself in London, about the holes in 

 the tissue of Sphagnum opening exteriorly. I looked 

 at Corda's microscope (one of Shiek [?] at Berlin), 

 but it is inferior to the English or Chevalier's. 



I made a second visit to Fenzl, as he lay in bed ; 

 had a long botanical talk with him, and think him a 

 most promising botanist. 



Ungnadia (the character of which Endlicher has 

 not yet published, the last plate in the " Atakta ") 

 was named in memory of Baron Ungnade, once an am- 

 bassador from Austria to Constantinople or Persia, I 

 forget which, and the first to introduce ^Esculus Hip- 

 pocastanum into Europe, hence the propriety of the 

 name. Endlicher is soon to publish the description 

 in the " Annals of the Vienna Museum," which work, 

 with the " Iconographia Generum Plantarum," he has 

 promised to send to Hamburg for me, along with the 

 parcels of plants given me. We have studied the new 

 Loganiaceous plant from Florida. It proves, as Brown 

 guessed, near his Logania (or Gen.) Stomandra, but 

 extremely distinct from that or any other genus, by 

 the character of the style which Decaisne first noticed. 



