Drs Hoppe and Hornschuch’s Tour fo fJie Coast of the 
allow this circumstance to prevent us from prosecuting our jour- 
ney, and we had the pleasure to find that our hopes of the short 
duration of bad weather were confirmed by the event. About 
8 o’clock we rambled towards the city and through a part of the 
old town, in order to reach that hill over which the road leads 
to Istria. Here the country begins to assume a mountainous and 
stony character. It consists mostly of fine-grained sandstone, but 
which is mixed with so much lime, that it has the property of 
effervescing with acid, and also of yielding sparks when struck 
with steel. 
Many plants appeared, in the genera of Verhascum^ Reseda, 
Euphorbia, and Scrophularia. The S. canina was abundant, 
^ong with the Parietaria ojfcmalis and Cynoglossum Cheiri- 
Jblium^ In the meadows near Saule, we saw numerous plants 
oiGlobularia vulgaris, Ophrys arachnites. Orchis palustris oxid 
variegata, and a species of Equisetiim which we did not know. 
0n the marsh-banks, which divide the salt-marshes, were the 
Tragopogon and Scorzonera ; and the sea-shore was bordered 
with Scirpus palustris, compactus, and Tabernoemontanus, 
growing'with nigricans.. Then we came to meadows 
full of bur narrow-leaved Leontodon, and of orchideous plants; 
and when we had reached die first mountain behind Saule, we 
found a pasture quite clothed with flowers,, entirely consisting of 
but two species, viz. Leucqjum (estivum, and a very broad-leaved 
Plantago lanceolata, o\\ which we must bestow a closer examina- 
tion. The road now led over dry mountains, where nothing grows 
But the stone-plants already noticed, especially Scrophularia ca^ 
nina and Echiimi italicum. On grassy spots we found Vida 
grandijlora^ many Tr folia, Crepides,. and particularly Medica- 
gines ; in moist situations, under hedges, grew Car ex pendula^ 
At length we caught a distant view of Gapo dTstria across the 
sea, and finally reached it by traversing a narrow neck of land, 
upon which we found a specimen of Geotropes punctatus. When 
we inquired for an inn, we were totally unable to get information 
offany^. and' therefore concluded that such kinds of houses were 
not^ to be met with here. In this dilemma,, we determined to go 
immediately, botanically equipped as we were, to M. Von Ma- 
donizza, a nobleman possessing large property in the neighbour- 
hood, and for whom a letter of introduction had been given to 
