Drs Hoppe and Hornschuch’s Tour to the Coast the 
mauds a delightful view of Isola, Pirano, and the sea around^ 
really baffles all description. Before this dwelling belonged to- 
the present possessor, it had been a convent of St Nicholas. Al- 
though the garden was chiefly laid out in the cultivation of ve- 
getables and fruit-trees, there were yet many ornamental plants 
in it ; and the hedges consist of roses : sage and thyme grow 
here to a noble size, and are now in full flower. But particu- 
larly we noticed, against the walls, such old and stout stems of 
jessamine^ rosemary, and the locust-tree {Ceratonia siliqud), as 
we had never before seen. In the greenhouse, where, notwith- 
standing the forwardness of the summer, its inhabitants were still 
suffered to abide, we observed the common plants of such a place, 
as Geraniums, Hydrangias, Lantanas, and VoTkamaerias, 
It was now evening, and M. Von Madonizza returned to the 
town, after having ordered his gardener to pay us all attention, 
shewn us the apartment where we should sleep, invited us to a 
well-furnished table, and repeatedly told us by his interpreter, 
that he would be happy in our remaining here as long as was 
agreeable to us.” 
Santo Nicolo, May -After breakfast to-day, we took a 
botanical walk, to examine the neighbourhood. From our new 
habitation we took to the eastward, over a mountain which is at 
some distance. Immediately behind the house we gathered Hy- 
acinthus comosus, with rather an unusual habit ; and in a pit 
close by grew a large Car ex, much resembling C. hirta. We 
pursued a road which led into the country, having a bank 
clothed with bushes on its left side ; here grew Oak and Horn- 
beam (the latter probably Caryinus ostrya), Crataegus monogy- 
na, Spartium junceum, Rhus cotinus, and the Common Rider. 
Beneath were Orohanche major, Hedysarum onohrycMs, Lotus 
corniculatus and hirsutus, Hipyocrepis comosa, and Flantago 
suhidata and Wvd^enii. We followed the track of a murmuring 
brook, from both sides of which hung down bushes of the same 
description as those which I have named, entwined with Coronik 
la Emerus, Lonicera caprifolium, and Clematis viticella. On the 
leaves of the latter we found in plenty the fine Mcidium Clema- 
titis. There were also Lithospermum purpuro-coeruleum, Gera-^ 
oiium sanguineum, Melittis grandijlora, Scabiosa sylvaticUy 
Pteris aquilinay Polygala 'vulgaris, Sciryus romanus^ Limodo^' 
