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them. Leaving about 300 specimens with her, I pursued my 

 excursions, and unfortunately for the Society, the lady acquitted 

 herself so well of the task, that there are very few of those plants 

 left me to send, the rest adorning the herbaria of other friends. 

 Throughout the journey I was indebted to the kindness of Dr. 

 Maly, to whom I directed the half-dried plants, and who laid 

 them immediately into fresh paper and pressed them ; notwith- 

 standing which, many Orchises and other monocotyledons which 

 it had been necessary to dip into boiling water were spoilt. 



Proceeding from Pettau round the western side of the Wotsch 

 to Rohitsch, I found Daphne Cneorum, Globularia vulgaris and 

 cordifolia, Leontodon incanus, Carex alba and Michelii, Muscari 

 comosum, and Helleborus niger in fruit. These were at the foot 

 of the mountain on the south-west side. At the top as well as 

 on most other Lower Styrian hills was Ostrya vulgaris. 



At Windisch Landsberg, my next station, I found Lepidium 

 Draba and the beautiful Orchis speciosa, Host. Whether this 

 is a good species I will not undertake to say. The mascula 

 appears here only on mountain meadows in May and June, and 

 not as in England in woods in April, and is still more unlike the 

 speciosa than the English one is. This plant I found in a clay 

 bank under the castle and only one specimen of it, for the first 

 time in this province. I could not at the time it was fresh find 

 any specimen of mascula to compare it with. On the Rudenza, 

 at the base of which the castle stands, I saw nothing new to me 

 except Helleborus atrorubens in fruit. The Aremonia was very 

 abundant, as well as Euphorbia dulcis. On the Croat side of 

 the frontier my only prizes were Euphorbia virgata and Lathyrus 

 Nissolia and Aphaca. 



From Windisch Landsberg, where I staid three days and was 

 most kindly entertained, but where there was less for the botanist 

 than anywhere on my whole journey, I went to Wisell. On 

 crossing a range of limestone hills to this castle the whole scene 

 is changed. Plants that I had seen here and there as solitary 

 stragglers were in abundance, and a multitude of new ones 

 beside. On the other hand, many old friends, disappeared. 

 ConifercB cannot be made to grow there. M. Hii"«chhofer, the 

 proprietor, has made many attempts to rear them, but they die 

 away in two or three years. In their place are oaks, but of what 

 species I do not know, as they were eaten up with caterpillars, 

 and did not present a green leaf except of the parasite Loranthus, 

 which was abundant enough ; chestnuts, Fyrus torminalisj Aria, 

 Amelanchier, communis and Mains, Sfaphylea pinnata, Fraxinus 

 Ornus, Ostrya and beech. Crataegus monogyna in the woods 

 about Pischatz assumes almost the character of the weeping 

 willow, and is one of the greatest ornaments of the forest. 



