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herbarium one looks into. I have two specimens of carniolicum 
from Noé, named by Reichenbach, as stated on the label ; and I 
have two others from Freyer, who is publishing the ‘ Flora Car- 
niolica,’ and ought certainly to know which is his country’s plant ; 
as forms they are as distinct as possible, Freyer’s plants being 
the same identical variety as mine from Tiifer im the Sann Thal, 
and which has been given in Dr. Maly’s ‘ Flora’ by Mr. Zehentner 
as strictum. Of all my acquaintance I know no two men on whom 
I would rely with more confidence than these, Dr. Maly and 
Zehentner, and yet, as I said above, M. Freyer must know his 
own Carniolan plants. The fact is, that all five are one and the 
same species. Books are usually written by chamber botanists, 
who receive only the extreme forms, characteristic specimens, and 
hence arises this multiplicity of species. 
In the Teufel’s Graben near Cilli I found Daphne Laureola, a 
very scarce plant in these parts, and Dentaria pinnata in fruit. 
Ruscus hypoglossum grows there, but is so greedily seized by the 
peasantry to adorn the images in the churches that the botanist 
can seldom get a bit. 
From Cilli 1 made an excursion with Prefect Dorfman to 
Schénstein and up the Eselberg, through the romantic Hudi 
Lukna, Devil’s Ravine. We found Sedum hispanicum and dasy- 
phyllum, Saxifraga crustata, Vest., Aizoon, rotundifolia, cunetfolia, 
Erysimum pallens most deliciously fragrant, Veronica saxatilis, 
Atragene alpina, Convallaria verticillata, and a new discovery for 
the flora, Cytisus alpinus. 
I fear it may be out of place to describe how excursions go on 
in this part of the world when one has a good introduction, but 
it may induce some member to try a trip in the Windisch pro- 
vinces of Austria. The Prefect is an elderly clergyman, educated 
at Admont, and a very well-informed man,—the very opposite of 
what some people figure to themselves of a Catholic priest from 
a conyent,—liberal in his sentiments, a good Greek scholar and 
a botanist, one of the most delightful men I have met with. We 
started one afternoon and drove over to Schdnstein castle, saw 
Stachys alpina and two or three other unimportant plants on the 
way, and took up our quarters at Mr. M . . .’s, a very good John- 
Bull-kind of country gentleman, not a man of science at all. He 
determined to accompany us next day, and sent to the village 
“surgeon to be ready to go with us, and so we sallied out early in 
the morning and arrived at a parsonage on the mountain about 
eleven o’clock. The good clergyman, though taken by surprise, 
put a really superb dinner on table with the best of wine. No 
welcome in an Arabian desert could be more kind and cordial than 
he gave us. After dinner he accompanied us up to the top of the 
mountain, gave us a very interesting account of the country, and 
