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The plants of Bolzano are almost entirely those of southern 

 regions, such as Pistacia terebinthus, Celtis australis, Ostrya 

 vulgaris^ Jasminum officinale, Ziziphus vulgaris, Andj-opo^ 

 gon Allioniiy Molina serotina, Onosma stellulatum, Selinum 

 venatum, Antirrhinum itolicum of Treviranus, Achillea tomen- 

 iosa, and Acrostichum marantcu In the Val di Non the rare 

 Lotus hirsutus was gathered. The Schlehern and Seisser 

 Alps are a chain of one and the same range ; and they afford- 

 ed many grasses and other alpine plants, but they are mostly 

 pecuhar to the southern Alps, such as Avena argentea, Fa- 

 leriatia elongata, and V. supina, Scabiosa longijblia, Phyteu- 

 ma comosum, and P. Sieberi of Sprengel, (probably the P. cor- 

 difolium of Villars,) Arenaria alpina, (with a very broad leaf, 

 and quite different in appearance from what grows upon our 

 Scotch Alps,) Juncus arcticus, Cherleria octandra, the beau- 

 tiful Potentilla nitida. Ranunculus rutcefolius, Hieracium par^ 

 viflorum of Schleicher, (perhaps a variety of H. prcemorsum,) 

 Arnica Wulfeniana of Pollich, {Doronicum caucasicum, Bieb.) 

 Polypodium, ( Woodsia, Br.) hyperboreum, Ceritaurea unifhra, 

 and C. ambigua» The Ortoles is known to be the loftiest 

 mountain of the Tyrol, and it might naturally be expected to 

 prove rich in alpine vegetation. Here, consequently, was 

 found a new Epilobium, (E. Fleischeri of Dr Hochstetter,) al- 

 lied to E, rosmarinifolium ; and among others I shall only 

 mention Ai^'a subspicata, Kochleria hirsuta, Festuca roethica, 

 Alchemilla pentaphylla, Aretia pennina, Phyteuma globularice- 

 folium, Sibbaldia procumbens, Cerastium trigynum, Pedicula- 

 ris asplenifolia, Achillea nana, together with many lichens 

 and mosses in very fine states of fructification ; among the for- 

 mer Parmelia speciosa, Lecanora alphoplaca, chlorophana, chry- 

 sokuca, &c. 



In the whole, M. Fleischer returned from his Tyrolean ex- 

 cursion with a collection of 400 species of Phaenogamous, 

 and 200 species of Cryptogamic plants, altogether 15,000 

 specimens, in a very beautiful state of preservation. 



The success which attended this first mission, as already 

 remarked, has induced the conductors of it to enlarge their 

 plan, and to invite naturalists in all countries to contribute to- 

 wards so laudable an object, and to share in the results of the 



