Vegetation of Dalmatia. 13 



where, we find many plants which are confined to one peculiar 

 locality, and others which are more universally distributed : 

 some are restricted entirely to the inland districts, others bloom 

 only along the coast. Universally, it is the tuberous and bulbous- 

 rooted plants, the umbelliferous and syngenesious, which pre- 

 dominate. There are but few Leguminosee ; and some genera 

 of plants common with us are entirely wanting ; such as 

 Pedicularis, Sanicula, Swertm, Eriophorum, Drosera, &c. ; a 

 deficiency which, perhaps, arises from the dryness of the climate, 

 as these genera are mostly inhabitants of marshes. That the 

 flora of Dalmatia has been only examined by degrees, the 

 following will show : — Portenschlag found ten species of Cen- 

 taurea, to which Visiani added seven new ; and I possess twenty- 

 one in my herbarium. Portenschlag knew six /'nul£e Visiani 

 added three, and I possess eleven. Of Medicago, the former 

 had seven species, Visiani added four, and I have twelve. 

 Portenschlag had nine species of Ti-ifolium, Visiani fourteen, 

 and at present twenty-eight are known. Equally remarkable 

 are the Orchideae : Portenschlag knew three, Visiani did not 

 find even one specimen, and I have altogether seventeen differ- 

 ent species. 



It now only remains to indicate the new discoveries which 

 have been made, during the last year, by several excursions in 

 Dalmatia. ^rtemisz'a naronitana Visiani has been brought by 

 Pelten from the Naranta, where he found it flowering in the 

 month of September ; A.renaria gracilis Waldst. et Kit., dis- 

 covered by me upon the Biocovo, and which is quite new in 

 Dalmatia ; likewise Salvia obliqua Waldst. et Kit., from the 

 heights near Karim; O'phrys speculum; Genista florida, dis- 

 covered by Biasoletto at Pago ; and also Velezm rigida, at 

 Streteo, likewise new to the Dalmatian flora; Periploca grae'ca, 

 and a very small Plantago (P. miniita Mihi), from the valley of 

 the Narenta; also, Cytisus fragrans Wclden, C. Weldenz Visiani, 

 which was discovered by me, last autumn, at the foot of the 

 Biocovo, occupying large tracts, which, when it flowers, are 

 filled with the intoxicating perfume which it exhales. The 

 milk of the goats which browse upon this plant excites head- 

 ach in those who drink it. This arborescent shrub has also 

 another peculiarity, which is, that it bears leaves twice a year, 

 the last of which are much smaller, and more pointed, than the 

 first; and they remain green until late in the winter. GeuUdna 

 crispata and flavescens Visia?ii, discovered by Professor Pelter 

 on the Biocovo, where it flowers in September ; Z/ilium chalce- 

 donicum, which I brought last year from the Velebit ; as well 

 as .Senecio abrotanifolius, ^ndrosace villosa, Achillea Clavenn^, 

 Mentha croatica (new in Dalmatia) ; as also Campanula tenui- 

 fcMia IValdst. ct Kit., and divergens, from the Karban Moimtains; 



