NOTES ON THE FLORA OF HOLSTEIN. O71 
tion that these are huge mounds or hillocks of sand and 
gravel, now completely covered by Heather, etc., which are 
generally found to contain im their interior, when dug into 
or razed to the ground, urns full of human bones and ashes, 
with numerous warlike weapons, such as spear-heads, axes, 
etc. The spears are generally of iron, and much corroded, 
but the axes are of copper, and sometimes in a state of very 
good preservation. I applied to the proprietor of one of 
these barrows to allow me to have it opened for the purpose 
of sacking it of its contents, which I intended depositing in the 
Antiquarian Museum of Edinburgh, and was only prevented 
by the superstitious awe with which they are regarded by 
the rude and primitive natives. These and other Scandina- 
vian antiquities are more abundant however in the eastern 
than western part of Holstein. 
Gentiana Pneumonanthe I met with everywhere in the numerous 
bogs and moors. 
Hermaria glabra 1 only noticed on one occasion on a roadside 
near Ottensen, Altona; but I have reason to believe that it 
is by no means unfrequent in similar localities. 
Galinsoga parviflora grows in tolerably plenty as a weed in 
some old orchards at Schenefeld. It seems to have become 
naturalized in Northern Germany, having escaped from cul- 
tivation (being originally a native of Peru). 
Inula britannica I found in patches among Willows on the 
Elbe, two or three miles below Blankenese. 
Humulus Lupulus is very common on ali the hedges, and is also 
abundantly cultivated. 
Hydrocharis Morsus-rane. Abundant in all the stagnant pools, 
lakes, dams, etc. 
Illecebrum verticillatum I found pretty abundant on all the 
sandy heaths; but the finest specimens occurred on the 
sand-dunes round Rissen, about three miles inland from 
Blankenese. 
Jasione montana. Abundant on sandy roadsides and moors. 
Lactuca sp.? was pretty abundant in ditches, thickets, woods, 
etc., as in Pinneberg Beech-wood. 
Lathyrus sylvestris was wet with in considerable plenty among 
the shrubs crowning the gravel cliffs above the Elbe, about 
two miles south of Wedel, near Schulau. 
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