222 FIRST JOURNEY IN EUROPE. [1839, 
saw him at his hotel. He is a little fellow about thirty, 
with a small expressive countenance. He works chiefly 
at minute fungi, on which he is publishing a large 
work. I saw a part of it in London. He showed me 
an immense quantity of drawings, which he makes 
with great rapidity. He is also publishing a work 
supplementary to Sternberg’s “Flora of the Former 
World,” a work of which Corda did a good part. He 
gave me two copies of a lithograph of Count Stern- 
berg, — now dead, as you know, —done by himself. 
I observe by his drawings that he has anticipated an 
unpublished discovery of Valentine’s, which he showed 
to Lindley and myself in London, about the holes in 
the tissue of Sphagnum opening exteriorly. I looked 
at Corda’s microscope (one of Shiek [?] at Berlin), 
but it is inferior to the English or Chevalier’s. 
I made a second visit to Fenzl, as he lay in bed; 
had a long botanical talk with him, and think him a 
most promising botanist. 
Ungnadia (the character of which Endlicher has 
not yet published, — the last plate in the “ Atakta”’) 
was named in memory of Baron Ungnade, once an am- 
bassador from Austria to Constantinople or Persia, I 
forget which, and the first to introduce Asculus Hip- 
pocastanum into Europe, — hence the propriety of the 
name. Endlicher is soon to publish the description 
in the “ Annals of the Vienna Museum,” which work, 
with the “ Iconographia Generum Plantarum,” he has 
promised to send to Hamburg for me, along with the 
parcels of plants given me. We have studied the new 
Loganiaceous plant from Florida. It proves, as Brown 
guessed, near his Logania § (or Gen.) Stomandra, but 
extremely distinct from that or any other genus, by 
the character of the style which Decaisne first noticed. 
