Adriatic , and the Mountains of Carniolo, Carinthia , Sfc. 89 
Our excursion of to-day was not very extensive ; but the 
ground was so uneven that we descended five or six times into 
the valleys, and again climbed the hills. We found some com- 
mon beetles, but no plants. Some Carices appeared, for ex- 
ample C. preecooc , collina , and humilis. W e had now gone round 
to the right of Trieste, had the Adriatic Sea;in view, and were 
close upon Contobello, when we saw a little plant in flower on 
the declivity of a mountain, the sight of which gratified us ex- 
ceedingly; it was the beautiful ErytlironiumDens-Canis , (Dog's- 
tooth Violet.) Most of the specimens, unfortunately, were out 
of flower ; and it was only after a long search, that we found 
some in a state fit to be gathered for our collections. It is a 
plant that merits a place in every garden ; its spotted foliage 
and graceful flowers vieing with those of the Cyclamen. The 
leaves were partly covered with a species of JEcidium . We of- 
fered money to a boy, to discover some more specimens, and he 
shortly brought us so many, though chiefly out of flower, as al- 
most to exhaust all our cash. Thus it nearly befel us as it did 
the conchologist at Copenhagen, to whom a sailor had given a 
scarce muscle. Wishing to have some of it, he offered a ducat 
for every one that the sailor should bring him, who soon fetched 
him as many as would fill a wheelbarrow 
u Hundsberg , April 5. — We employed the whole of yester- 
day in laying out our plants, and observed that, among the 
specimens of Erythronium , were several with white flowers. 
To day we made a long excursion to Duino. We did not 
forget the tree which we had observed on our journey from 
Gortz hither. The barrenness of the soil, of which we then 
complained, is not even yet much improved. The whole is 
* There is scarcely a zealous follower of any department of natural history, who 
pannot bring forward some anecdote of this kind. We remember, when entomology 
occupied a greater share of our attention, than it does at present, that, being on the 
summit of Ingleborough in Yorkshire, a very rare beetle caught our attention, the 
Carabus glabratus, not then known to be a native of Britain. We showed it to 
the guide, who said it was common, and he could find us plenty. So little, did we 
credit him, that, trusting to his ignorance of insects, we offered him a shilling 
each, for all that he would bring. Luckily for our pockets, he came to us when 
he had found half u dozen only, and thus gave us an opportunity of putting an 
end to this, on our parts, unprofitable bargain, for we had, by that time, discovered 
for ourselves, as many as we could desire, — Ed. 
