sending Collectors to different parts of Europe. S5 



idea of extending still further their views ; but before I pro- 

 ceed to state these, I will make some extracts from the Bota- 

 nische Zeitung for February 1826, where the nature and pro- 

 duce of the journey is more fully described. 



On the 3d of May M. Fleischer, with his assistant, left 

 Esslingen, and hastened through Ulm and Meiningen, in the 

 neighbourhood of which latter town he considered it a happy 

 omen that he met with some of the rarest German Cyperacece, 

 even before quitting the Bavarian dominions. The Reverend 

 M. Koeberlein of Griinenbach conducted the traveller to the 

 moory grounds in that vicinity, where many sedges, and 

 among them Carecc capitata and C. chordorhiza were already 

 in full flower. It was in the month of May 1825 that Ger- 

 many was visited by an almost unprecedented degree of cold 

 and frost, so that the botanists were glad to proceed as quick- 

 ly as possible to Southern Tyrol, and soon reached the shores 

 of Lake Garda, and a country warmed by a genial Italian sky. 

 Here the Tyrolean mountains presented M. Fleischer with 

 Carex baldensis, Avena ssmpervirens, Scahiosa graminea, 

 Horminum pyrenaicum, Spartium radiatum^ and many other 

 rarities. The environs of Torbele proved still richer in scarce 

 vegetable productions, and the foot of Mount Baldo in the 

 Tyrol, likewise on the Italian side, yielding Spartium Jun^ 

 ceum^Cytisus argenteus^ Carpinus orientalis, Quercus ilex, Co- 

 riandrum testiculatum, and Lathyrus setifolius. At Rovere- 

 do M. Fleischer received much kindness from M. Christofori, 

 an apothecary, and warm admirer of botany, who took him to 

 the stations of Plantago carinata of Schrader, (P. Wulfeniiy 

 Sturm,) Dianthus atro-rubens, Cytisus sessilifolius, &c. Col- 

 Santo was ascended from Roveredo, a mountain whereon were 

 found the Aira montana of the Norwegian Alps, (a plant new 

 to the south of Europe,) Pcederota coerulea. Anemone balden^ 

 sis, Horminum pyrenaicum. Geranium argenteum, Rhamnus 

 pumilus, and many other rare alpine productions. On ano- 

 ther adjacent mountain grew Daphne striata, and the curious 

 Saxifraga Vandellii. The environs of Bolzano, the Seisser 

 Alps, and the Schlehern, together with Orteles, in which coun- 

 tries M. Fleischer passed a good part of his time, and perhaps 

 at the most favourable season, yielded the amplest harvest. 



