 Many botanists have sought the mysterious pale yellow scabious, among them also the young Julius Kugy.He searched for the mysterious flower, and though he was not able to find it, this led him to become a great explorer and describer of the Julian Alps.The Austrian botanist, A. Kerner, later proved Belsazar Hacquet had not found a new species, but a specimen of the already known submediterranean "Cephalaria leucantha".