88 Drs Hoppe and Hornschuch’s Tour to the Coast of the 
culated that, in this short space of time, he had disposed of 800 
portions of coifee. 
In the train of the Emperor was M. Antoni, the Royal garden- 
er. He had inquired if there were any persons who knew the 
country around Trieste, as far as respected its botany ; and he 
was referred to us. Thus we made this gentleman’s acquaint- 
ance ; and this day’s excursion to Saule was enlivened by his 
company. We found some rare plants as well as shells ; but, 
as we could not collect these in sufficient quantities, without ne- 
glecting the conversation of M. Antoni, so we resolved to make 
^is excursion again to-morrow. On our return, a spectacle of 
a kind novel to us^ though common in this country, attracted 
our attention. The women and girls of Istria always bring their 
goods to market upon asses. On their return home, particularly 
when the weather is hot, they avail themselves of the opportu- 
nity to ride which these animals afford ; but, as this is done 
without any more suitable equestrian garb than a single garrnent 
of scanty longitude^ and only bound round the waist with a kind 
of girdle, so this cavalcade presented such a sight as caused the 
old gentleman, our companion, to pass several jokes, and com- 
pelled him to many a hearty burst of laughter. 
Hundsherg^ May 8. — Aristoloc/iia rotunda. — We did not 
delay a moment to-day in commencing a search for those rari- 
ties of the vegetable kingdom which we saw yesterday. The 
first plant whose turn it was to be unmercifully rooted up, was a 
Carex spicis cmdrogynis, spicuUs superne masculis^ inf erne foe- 
mineis^ culmo nudo^ radice nodosa repente. 
The reseniblance of this grass to Carex Schreher% did not 
escape us at the time ; but, as its root was thick and knotty, we 
thought of C. chordorhiza, Ehrhart. After a closer examina- 
tion, and a comparison with Wilidenow’s Caricologia, we should 
have decided it to be C. sch^enoides, if we had not found thi? 
species, as we believed, formerly in Istria. As we have now 
gathered a sufficient quantity of this plant, it shall be added to 
our publication on grasses, when the true character will be given. 
It grows on dry sandy ground, near the sea-shore. A second 
plant was Orchis variegata, which grows plentifully on dry mea- 
dows before Saule, and of which the first sight yesterday gave 
us no small gratification. We took it then to be a variety of 
