SI 2 Drs Hoppe and Hornschuch’s Tour to the Coast of the 
66 Hundsberg , March 1. — Before we started from Gefrees, we 
thought with pleasure on the observations of Schwaegrichen, 
concerning the delightful spring of Trieste ; and we then re- 
solved that our first botanical excursion from that city should 
take place on the 1st day of March. In pursuance of this plan, 
we agreed to visit to-day the country of Contobeilo, in order 
to gather the Euphorbia Characias , which we have already men- 
tioned as being so enthusiastically described by Baron von Wul- 
fen. We had the additional inducement of believing that our 
friend Funck would, mentally, accompany us in this expedition. 
“ At eight o’clock in the morning, therefore, we hastened from 
our lodging at Hundsberg, towards Trieste ; sufficiently provided 
with apparatus, both botanical and entomological, for securing 
all that we might collect. We quitted the city by the Contrade 
del Ponte, and gained the hills, which, on the right hand,} bound 
the new Lazaretto. The sky was clear and serene, the air 
warm, the Karschgeburge Mountain extended far away to the 
right hand, the Adriatic Sea lay on the left. The road, how- 
ever, was for a long way enclosed with high walls, as protection 
to the vineyards on each side, and upon these we sought in vain 
for mosses, particularly for the rare Trichostomum latifolium, 
in reality an alpine moss, and which surely can hardly grow, 
as it has been stated to do, on walls at Trieste*.” These 
walls, indeed, generally studded with pieces of broken glass 
stuck into the mortar at top, to prevent depredators from climb- 
ing over, had nothing growing upon them but dry bushes of 
roses and brambles, and a few patches of ivy. 
“ After we had walked for a good half hour, pent up between 
the walls, we got into a more open country, where a narrow 
path soon led us down to the sea-shore. On both sides of, us, in 
the descent, grew bushes of Wild Figs {Ficus Carica) and of 
Lavender {Lavandula officinalis), just as brambles do with us. 
Before us lay the sea, which we approached in eager anticipa- 
tion of the treasures we should find ; but, behold, the beach was 
covered with rejectamenta for a foot deep, destroying all vege- 
m Our excellent friend. Dr Schwaegrichen, the able Professor of Nat. Hist, at 
Leipzig, who is the authority for this, and whose society we have the pleasure to 
enjoy at the time these sheets are going to press, assures us that he gathered the 
plant plentifully in that spot — Ed. 
