Adriatic^ and the Mountains Carniola^ Carinthia, S63 
tiUaries, Hyacinths^ Starch hyacinths^ Scorzoneras andGentians^ 
adorned the ground ; and we, moreover, found a couple of plants 
that were new to us, namely, a Valerian and a Plantain. The 
rooting up of some fifty specirtiens, '*"as attended with much 
trouble in this stony ground. Besides these, there grow in this 
spot together Glohidarla cordifolia^ G nudicaulis and vulgaris^ 
a circumstance which enables us to make an interesting addition 
to a treatise on the geographical distribution of plants, which we 
intend to pursue and publish. 
The little wood at the back of these meadows, consists of 
Primus Mahaleh and Pyrus Amelanchier^ among which were 
some single trees of Sorhus domestica. Here, also, the Curcidios 
were quite at home : we found particularly C. Gorzensis and C. 
planatus together, in tolerable plenty : the great beauty and size 
of these specimens, induced us to collect them, though we had 
already got a sufficient supply of these species. The great affi- 
nity and proximity of habitat of these two insects, is a circum- 
stance of a similar nature to what we have already noticed in 
the Globidarioe. 
Hundsberg^ May 10.— It was late yesterday before we finished 
drying our Valerians^ Senecios and Plantains ; and we were, 
therefore, obliged to delay the examination of these plants till 
this morning. The Valerian has the habit of V. dioica^ but 
its inflorescence is completely hermaphrodite. This circum- 
stance certainly constitutes no specific distinction ; for, accord- 
ing to Scopoli, even the F. dioica has, in Carniola and near 
Saltzburg, been often observed with hermaphrodite flowers. Bet- 
ter marks of difference are, therefore, those afforded by stoloni- 
hus nidlis et radipe tuber osa. In a word, this plant is a decided- 
ly marked species, and yet appears to be unnoticed In any bota- 
nical publication, and omitted in every German Flora The 
Plantago we must also pronounce to be a novelty, which has pro- 
bably been hitherto confounded with P. lanceolata. For the pre- 
sent, we will only observe, that plants of it are remarkable evenat 
a distance, by their large round heads of flowers, beset with snowy 
white anthers, and on this account it might well deserve the name 
of Plantago capitata. The Senecio, we had determined as the 
^ It is the V* tuber osa» 
