134 Drs Hoppe and Hornschuch’s Tour to the Coast of the 
publication is given in the form of letters, the first of which is 
dated Gefrees * *, in Upper Bayreuth, 22d January 1816, and is 
devoted to an account of the plan of their expedition, and their 
preparations for it. 
44 We intend, to-morrow morning, to commence our pedestrian 
tour, proceeding from this place by Ratisbon, Saltzburg, Klagen- 
furt, and Laybach to Trieste, thence making various excursions, 
according to circumstances. Trieste will be for some time our 
head quarters, whence we shall go through Xstria to the Cape 
of that name, to Fiume, over Monte Maggiore, to Pola, Pa- 
renzo and Pirano, thus passing the spring in a country which 
the celebrated Professor Host f, who was born at Finme, has 
called the Paradise of Flora. Our journey will be continued 
through Duino, Montfalcone, Aquilea, Gradiska and Gorz to 
Xstria, thus skirting a part of the provinces of Friaul aud Car 
niola, and proceeding over the mountains of Carinthia and Ty- 
rol to Heiligenbiut and Gastein, where we shall again rest. We 
shall thence return by Saltzburg, and the termination of our 
expedition will be celebrated at Bryzezina in Bohemia, the seat 
of Count Sternberg |, who has already given us a most cordial 
invitation.” 
44 But, in order that we may not commence our tour quite 
unprepared, we have passed a month here (in Gefrees) with 
our excellent friend and naturalist M. Funck ||, apothecary, en- 
* A small town in the Bavarian States, a few miles north of Bayreuth.— Ed. 
*j* Now resident at Vienna, author of those admirable works Gramina Austria- 
ca and Flora Austriaca , and who, we hear, is occupied now with a work on the 
Salices , in the same splendid style as the first named one on the grasses. — Ed. 
X Count Sternberg is the author of the best monograph of the genus Saxifraga 
that has ever yet been written. This work is published on a folio size, with nu- 
merous excellent plates, and is entitled Rcvisio Saxifr agar urn iconibus illustrata ; 
but, since the period of its appearance, 1810, so many new species have been dis- 
covered, that it were much to be wished its author would give us a supplement on 
the same plan. The Count is favourably known also to the geologist as well as 
the botanist, by the publication of his Versuch einer geognostisch-botanischen darstel^ 
iung dor Flora der vorrwelt, likewise in folio— Ed. 
|| An author well known by the publication of the Cryptogamic Plants of the 
Fichtdbergi in several quarto fasciculi, and who deserves to be much more so by 
that of his Deutsche Moose , or, as he describes it, A Pocket Herbarium to be em« 
