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that, in new countries, the plants assume a very different appear- 
ance. At first, one is dazzled with the novel objects, looking 
upon them with the eyes of a stranger ; but after a while, when 
we become accustomed to them, we discover their real charac- 
ters. 
u We now wandered along the sea-shore, again came to the road 
leading to Istria, and by it to a stony hill, where we looked for 
insects, and found again many of the Chrysomela which we had 
observed on the preceding day, lying under the stones, in their 
hybernacula. Hence we passed over a large stony tract of coun- 
try, and through many vineyards came again to the beach. In 
the vineyards an Euphorbia was in flower, which had a singular 
appearance ; and on the sea-shore were the remains of maritime 
plants, similar to that we had seen at Saule. A noble rocky 
path now passes by the sea to Moja, where we dined. On the 
old walls of the fortification was flowering Cheiranthus Cheiri ; 
but we could not reach specimens, nor determine whether it was 
the Linnean or Rohling’s species. In Moja we were again fol- 
lowed by beggars. One of these thrust himself into the inn 
with us, and the hostess even permitted him to bring us our 
wine in an open vessel. Such a thing would never be permitted 
in our country, and there, probably, would have taken away our 
inclination for the beverage, but we were now too keen to be 
very nice. 
“ The ceiling of the place where we dined (for in the inns here 
they have no distinct apartment for the guests) was hung en- 
tirely with ears of maize. Twenty-five ears made a bunch, and 
hundreds of such bunches were suspended, which did not look 
amiss. We returned home late, with our botanizing box well 
filled.” 
“ Hundsberg , April 2 . — It is well that we made our collec- 
tions yesterday, and thereby provided employment for to-day ; 
as the north wind blows dreadfully, and flakes of snow are ac- 
tually falling. On examining our Euphorbia , it proves to be 
only E. Helioscopia. How was it that we did not recognise it 
yesterday ? Because it was procumbent, branched from the base, 
and flowering in the spring. Who ever saw this to be the case 
with E. Helioscopia ? 
