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this paper are, 1st, the immediate neighbourhood of the town ; 

 2nd, Zaule and its neighbourhood ; 3rd, Monte Spaccato and 

 Lipizza on the Karst; and 4th, Contobello on the coast. 

 These four excursions present a pretty good picture of the 

 vegetation of the Triestine territory. 



I. In the immediate neighbourhood of the town, in fact 

 forming one extremity of it, is a Httle wood called the Bos- 

 chetto, the favourite promenade of the inhabitants, which it 

 well may be, since there alone you find anything like a col- 

 lection of trees, the country of Illyria being exceedingly bare, 

 and trees are great treasures in such a warm climate. This 

 grove is laid out in pleasant walks, and there are one or two 

 coffee-houses where the Triestine gentlemen breakfast in the 

 open air at a very early hour of the morning, and where the 

 Triestine ladies sip coffee towards dusk. In the evening it 

 presents a very gay scene, and the botanist, resting there after 

 his day's labour, finds himself greatly refreshed by the change 

 from pretty flow^ers to pretty faces. In the Boschetto abound 

 several rare and very interesting plants, such as Chrysanthe- 

 mum montanum, Chrysanthemum corymhosum, Thesium divari- 

 catum, Inula hirta, Tragopogon floccosum^ Potentilla pedata, 

 and Polygala comosa. Also some critical species of much in- 

 terest to the British botanist, as Lotus ciliatus, Tenore, a south- 

 ern form of Lotus corniculatus, Ononis antiquorum, and the 

 Lathyrus septum of Scopoli. 



II. The salt marshes of Zaule are about four miles from 

 Trieste, and abound in rare and interesting plants. The road to 

 them is rather level and uninteresting ; by the wayside how- 

 ever I gathered undoubted specimens of the Ranunculus ver- 

 rucosus"^ of Sternberg, this being the original locality. Also 

 in corn-fields Bupleurum obovatum, Polygonum Bellardi, and 

 Bifora radians. On the hedges near Zaule I found two rare 

 and beautiful plants. Clematis iriticella and Aristolochia ro- 

 tunda. In the meadows at Zaule grow Holoschcenus australis, 

 Veronica latifolia, Brokhousia hispida, Gladiolus illyricus, 

 Plantago altissima, Scorzonera laciniata, Scabiosa hybrida, 

 Asparagus marinus, and Ornithogalum narbonense, Sec. The 



* Perhaps not distinct from Ranunculus Philonoils. 



