¬The¬ Dolomite Mountains : excursions through Tyrol, Carinthia, Carniola, & Friuli in 1861, 1862, & 1863 ; with a geological chapter and pictorial illustrations from original drawings on the spot
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Autor:
Gilbert, Josiah ; Churchill, George C. / by Josiah Gilbert, and G. C. Churchill
Ort:
London
Verlag:
Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green
Umfang:
XX, 576 S. : Ill., Kt.
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort:
g.Dolomiten ; f.Reisebericht 1861-1863
Signatur:
II A-4.101
Intern-ID:
134614
wider space. The habit of fche plant would probably re- mind the unbotanical observer of a Foxglove ; it is about eighteen inches high, provided with a rosette of large scalloped leaves of a lettuce-like form, and a stem all but bare of leaves, crowned with a spike of deep purple-blue flowers, all turning one way. Certainly, when in flower, thè mass of colour must be visible at a ereat distance— like that girdle of gentians which Mr. Ruskin describes as having vividly attracted bis eye from
a distance of several miles, near Landeck, in North TyroL The German nam© of the plant is c Hundzunge,’ or 4 Houndstongue/ no doubfc fiom the shape of the Jeaf, The height of the locality above the seadevel is probably not far short of 6,000 feet. At that time Churchill did not visit the opposite and, as it proved, more mteresting si de of thè mountain. Hermagor, or more properly, St. Hermagor, may b© considered as the ecclesiastical centre of the Gail Thal* Although this little town, and a few
