90 Drs Hoppe and Hornschuclfs Tour to the Coast of the 
known by the name of Karsch , and except a few rock plants it 
yields but little. Our tree, which is probaly a Carpinus , has 
its catkins much more expanded, and besides it we have found 
nothing new. We returned by the high road which leads to 
Obschina. Some Papilios were on the wing, together with 
Cetonia hirtd. Curculio Germanics was found under stones, 
and in dung the usual Spharidia , and Aphodia. The com- 
mon Carices , and C. humilis in particular, are still in flower.” 
Hundsberg , April 6 . — With the botanists, Saturday has 
its peculiar employments, for then we go into the city and pur- 
chase various commodities that are necessary to us, and visit the 
flower, fruit, and fish markets. Though the former contains 
more of the products of the garden than of the woods, we never- 
theless see Erica, Pulsatilla , and Viola , which constitute the 
botanical character of a country. In the fish-market are some- 
times found the sea-urchin ( Meerigel ), and Capi Santi * 
( Ostrea Jacob ad) ; Cardium rusticum , Venus reticulata , cas- 
trensis and Galena are very common, as is Mur ex cornutus. The 
numerous pyramids of sweet oranges, and lemons, give, even at 
a distance, a peculiar character of splendor to the fruit-market, 
which is increased, as you approach near, by cocoa-nuts, and 
piniolen -f ; figs, almonds, raisins, dates, &c. The selling of 
wine in open pails, which stand exposed to the sun, was not so 
agreable a spectacle to us as the quantity of roasted chesnuts 
which are seen in the open streets. 
“As the cork which we purchase here is not very good for our 
insect boxes, we have contrived another plan. We cut large 
bottle corks into three or four pieces, fasten them to the bottom 
of the box by means of gum, and secure the whole with a sheet 
of paper, so that none can get loose and injure the insects.” 
• So called because the Pilgrims who had visited the Holy Land, wore these 
shells in their hats. Many conchologists have asserted that the scallop shell em- 
ployed to designate the crusade, was the Ostrcea maxima, but, in confirmation of 
our present idea, that the Capi Santi , as the Ostrcea Jacobcsa is called at Trieste 1 , 
is the pilgrim’s badge, we have the further authority of the great poet of the north, 
in these words, 
ts He shews St James’s cockleshell ; 
Of fair Montserrat, too, can tell.”— E d. 
T These Finiolcn tire, I believe, the seeds of the Stone Pine, ( Pirns Finca ) y 
which arc much eaten in Italy,— Ed. 
