Adriatic > and the Mountains of Carniola, Carinthia, Sfc, l4i 
So striking was the scene before us, the immense snow-covered 
Alps losing themselves in the blue distance, that we were tempted 
to believe, that a mountain view is as striking in a clear winter’s 
day, as it is in summer. Hallein, Kuehel, and Golling were 
soon passed, but it was otherwise with the rest of the road. Imme- 
diately behind the famous pass of Lueg, of which not a trace now 
remains, the vast blocks of stone which jut out of the softer banks 
of the Saltza, invited us to a closer examination, and we found 
them to be covered with the rare Trichostomum fontinaloides , in 
collecting the finest specimens of which, we spent some hours. 
This was again an addition to the Flora of Saltzburg 5 and its 
discovery detained us so long, that day declined before we 
could reach our resting place. The moon, instead of the sun, 
was our guide ; and, singly and carefully, we proceeded on- 
ward across vast mountains covered with dazzling snow. 
64 Foot of the Tauern * ( Untertauern ). — Gymnostomum , no- 
va species . — We had a good lodging last night at the post-house 
of Werfen, where the warm room was particularly acceptable, 
and served to dry our clothes, which had been thoroughly soak- 
ed by the Saltza. The distance to Untertauern this day was 
not less than ten stund. We have crossed the Saltza, Kadstadt 
is behind us, and a solitary cottage at the foot of Radsladt. 
Tauern is to be our lodging to-night. Even to-day we can en- 
ter on our journal the 4 nulla dies sine linea;’ for we found that 
the perpendicular, and therefore snowless, mountains of mica- 
slate, which bound the lonely alpine road before Hiittan, har- 
boured a beautiful velvet-like moss, which had hitherto es- 
caped the observation of museologists, and which must, there- 
fore, serve to record our ardent zeal for botanical honours. 
It was a new Gyrnnostomum f, which thus unexpectedly 
presented itself to our view. Our travelling bundle was in- 
* Tauern throughout Saltzburg and Cat inthia, is applied to every hill over which 
a road or path leads. Probably from the Celtic word Tur , a hill ; and hence in 
Scottish Tarn, and Tor in the south-west of England, namely, a high rock.— Ed. 
+ This has been published in Hooker’s Musci Exotici under the name of Ani- 
ckangium Ilornschuchii. — Ed. 
