240 Botanical Excursion to the Mountains of Ternova. 



highest mountains of the forest^ namely the Golaks (385 

 toises high). Our guide was an old forester, but missing his 

 Avay he misled us sadly, and I have seldom been obliged to 

 scramble so much or so inconveniently as during the ascent 

 of the Maligolak. Our scratched faces and torn clothes (tra- 

 vellers carry few coats) bore evidence of our toil for some 

 time afterwards. The general aspect of the vegetation was 

 similar to what we had seen the tw^o preceding days, but se- 

 veral plants of great interest and novelty diversified it. In the 

 wood we found Lonicera coerulea and nigra, Hacquetia Epi- 

 pactis and Salix Kitaibeliana. Towards the summit of the 

 Golaks Pinus Mughus grew in great plenty ; also Silene quadri- 

 dentata, Carex capillaris, Apargia fcBtida, and that variety of 

 Gnaphaliwn dioicum which Don named Gnaphalium hyperbo- 

 reum. Though the weather was warm and the month June, 

 in consequence of the lateness of the season, much snow lay 

 around us, which we turned to good account by manufacturing 

 ice-punch, being well provided with materials, wherewith to 

 drink the health and happiness of Queen Victoria with all the 

 honours, this being the coronation day. The snow was use- 

 ful in another respect also, for in its neighbourhood we found 

 Gentiana angulosa in beautiful flower, a great gratification to 

 myself, as I had despaired of seeing its blossoms; hitherto 

 all the specimens I had found were in fruit. We found no 

 other plants of interest before descending to the Karst, when 

 we gathered the beautiful Campanula spicata in fine condition, 

 also Geranium macr or rhiz on and Ant hriscus fumarioides. The 

 botanical part of our excursion was now at an end ; and once 

 more reclining in a wicker car, we jogged on to Goritzia, well 

 loaded with treasures, and arrived there at midnight. 



During this excursion I found but few land shells. Helix 

 verticellus and H. planospira were common in the w oods. Se- 

 veral good species of Clausilia, Vitrina elongata, and Cyclo- 

 stoma elegans also occurred. The greatest rarities were a few 

 specimens gathered on the summit of the Maligolak of two of 

 the scarcest and most interesting European Pupce, viz. Pupa 

 pagodula and Pupa Kokeilii. The latter is a trochiform Pupa 

 with a ringent mouth, and forms a natural link between Pupa 

 and Helix ; it was first described by Rossmassler, who received 

 it from Carinthia about a year and a half ago. 



