460 Dr. R. C. Alexander's Account of a Botanical 



Ostrya, Ophrys aranifera ; and in narrow dells in the mountain, 

 Cardamine trifolia, Chrysosplenium alternifolium, Carex pilosa and 

 pendula, Corydalis cava, Cineraria longifolia and Arum maculatum, 

 the latter not being found in Upper Styria. 



From Stattenberg I went to Pettau and stayed a week there, 

 visiting Ankenstein, Wurmberg and Dornau castles, to which I 

 had introductions. The town stands on a large plain of alluvial 

 soil and in summer is very much hotter than Gratz, being open 

 towards Hungary, and the flora essentially different ; I found 

 Ornithogalum umbellatum in the corn-fields very abundant, often 

 one foot and a half high ; on dry meadows Saxifraga bulbifera 

 and Ophrys aranifera, usually together in countless number. 

 Most of the specimens were however spoilt by the wet and the 

 impossibility of getting dry paper enough. Poa bulbosa var. 

 vivipara. Orchis militaris, globosa and variegata-, in damper 

 situations Scrophularia Scopolii, Vicia grandiflora, Acorus Calamus, 

 Menyanthes trifoliata. On the heath Galanthus nivalis in fruit, 

 Vicia lathyroides, Arenaria rubra, Ajuga genevensis, Poa com- 

 pressa. 



Wurmberg and Ankenstein lie on hills a few miles from the 

 town in opposite directions, but the plants being nearly the 

 same 1 take them together, omitting what I also found on the 

 Wotsch. Moenchia mantica, Koch, Campanula sibirica, and 

 Silene i-ubella, Wulfen, all now discovered for the first time in 

 Styria : that is, nobody had announced their discovery before, 

 and in these matters ^^Paulum sepultse distat inertise celata 

 virtus.^' The Moenchia I have since found in a friend's herba- 

 rium unnamed, and the Silene is probably that given in Dr. 

 Maly's book as Silene inaperta on Dr. Hayne's authority. Koch, 

 on receiving a specimen from me, wrote in answer, " Diess ist 

 die lang gesuchte Silene rubella, Wulf.'' I found it again at 

 Wisell, and a gentleman at Toplitz in Croatia has lately sent it as 

 S. linicola to Dr. Haffner. The Campanula sibirica, as well as 

 Cytims prostratus, Scop., and Helianthemum canum, I have not 

 seen in any other herbarium, as found in Styria. Other plants 

 were. Euphorbia dulcis, of the form ambigua,W . Kit., epithymoides 

 and verrucosa, Potentilla rupestris, alba, Allium ursinum, for the 

 fii'st and last time in Styria; Ophioglossum vulgatum, another 

 plant that had been overlooked, though as common in Lower 

 Styria as in England ; Asperula arvensis, Iris graminea, Carex 

 Davalliana, common in wet meadows, Staphylea pinnata, Fraxinus 

 Ornus, Orobus Clusii, Lithospermum purp. carul., Convallaria 

 majalis, multiflora, polygonatum, Maianthemum bifolium, and on 

 the castle hill at Pettau, Muscari racemosum. Had not the Lady 

 Verwalterin of the castle at Wurmberg taken upon herself the 

 charge of drying my plants, I could not have rescued half of 



