Adriatic , and the Mountains of Carniola , Carmtkid, $c. 
tation, and rendering walking very difficult and disagreeable. 
After a short space, the road again ascends to Contobello, which 
may be at about the distance of an Italian mile ; but as the no- 
velty of the sea-shore rendered it more attractive for us, we left 
the path, and proceeded for an hour longer on the pebbly beach, 
till our progress was arrested by the hills (covered with vines 
and olive trees), whose rocky fronts projected into the sea. It 
was near mid-day, and our boxes were filled with plants. This 
circumstance was chiefly owing to a quantity of branches, which 
had been cut down, bearing evergreen leaves, which resembled 
those of Ilex aquifolium, but belonging, in fact, to an unknown 
Oak. We know not how they came hither, whether they had 
been hewn down on the mountains, or brought hither by the 
sea. Let it suffice to observe, that all the leaves were thickly 
covered with a dark-brown Erineum , of which we collected the 
best specimens. Here we parted, and while one ascended the 
hills, the other gathered some interesting marine plants on the 
beach ; among these were Facus spiralis , Esper ; F. catenatus? 
Linn., and some Ceramia , which covered the stones that were 
lying in the water, and which, after being wafted from place to 
place by the inconstant waves, were at last destined to drop into 
our vascula. It was on this spot that the immortal Wulfen 
collected the Alga aquatic# , which he has described in so mas- 
terly a manner *, and we were not a little vain of being able to 
tread in his footsteps. 
“ Many Ceramia , and many molluscous animals, were left by 
us ungathered, in the hope of Coming for them at a future time. 
The other of us obtained, under a wet rock entwined with ivy, 
the graceful Venus-hair Fern ( Adiantum capillus Veneris ), 
and Dicranum pellucidum. This was all the fresh vegetation 
that the hill afforded. Every where, indeed, were the withered 
* Under the title of Xaveri de Wulfen Abbatis Klagenfurthensis Cryptogama 
aquatica. This excellent man was no less esteemed for his amiable virtues, thart 
for his botanical acquirements. In 1762 he was appointed Professor of Natural 
Philosophy at Klagenfurth, in Carniola, where, besides attending much and strictly 
to his ecclesiastical and professional duties, he devoted a considerable portion of his 
time to mineralogy, and to describing the new and rare plants of that country and 
Carinthia, which forms an important portion of the Flora Austriaca of Jacquin, to 
whom he communicated all his discoveries. He died in 1806, and is reported to 
have left a complete Flora Norica (a district of Carniola), and an Agrostograpkia , 
neither of which, we believe, has been published. — Ed, 
