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



Omphalodes vei^na and Spiraa ulmifolia. Here, as almost every- 

 where in Lower Styria, the Struthiopteris germanica is abundant 

 among the alders and underwood along the brooks. A very bad 

 name is germanica for a plant that is only found in Bohemia and 

 other Slavonian provinces. Clematis erecta and other plants that 

 I have mentioned before occurred here in abundance : the same 

 range of hills coming across from Klanyecz, Wisell and Reichen- 

 burg presents at Lichtenwald nearly the same flora. On the Car- 

 niolan side of the Save 1 found Saxifraga cuneifolia, Quercus 

 CerriSf Veronica urticifolia, Silene gallica and Euonyrnus verru- 

 cosus. 



From Lichtenwald I went to Montpreis. The first excursion 

 was on the Wach Berg in a drenching rain and nothing found. 

 Next day taking a different direction I met with Lilium chalcedo- 

 nicum, Coronilla montana, Viola mirabilis, and a great number of 

 other interesting plants already mentioned. Had Montpreis 

 been the first station visited, I should have almost as much to 

 say in its praise as about Wisell. 



On the road thence to Cilli I found Ononis hircina and Asple- 

 nium septentrionale ; but though travelling through a valley in 

 the most shameful state of neglect that I have ever yet seen, the 

 meadows covered with sedge and rush, I did not meet with any 

 water-plants of the least interest. Careoc ampullacea and C. hirta 

 var. sublcevis are not uncommon. 



From Cilli, in company of the Prefect Dorfman, I made several 

 most delightful excursions. On one down the beautiful and 

 famous Sann Thai which I took alone and on foot, I found Lo- 

 lium speciosum and Hemerocallis flava, both new to the flora, Rhus 

 Cotinus, Dorycnium herbaceum, Erysimum strictum or E. odo- 

 ratum-, I do not know positively which it is; there is great 

 dispute about it, and '' adhuc sub judice lis est.'' Dianthu^ syl- 

 vestris, Biscutella Icevigata and Aristolochia pallida. 



With this excursion I took leave of the Save and its brilliant 

 scenery. Through the whole length in which it forms the boun- 

 dary of Styria to the south, it is confined by rocky shores covered 

 nearly to the water's edge with forests of deciduous trees, broken 

 here and there with villages of white houses. The profusion of 

 white blossoms on the Fraocinus Ornus and Spiraa Amncus and 

 other trees and shrubs, and the beautiful clear green water, and 

 above all, the custom in Lower Styria and Croatia of building 

 their churches on eminences, give the Save valley an hilarity that 

 I never saw equalled on any other river. 



With regard to the Erysimum, I may say as I did of the Po- 

 tentillas and Primulas, that there is no drawing an exact line be- 

 tween the different forms in the genus. E. carniolicum, odoratum, 

 strictum, repandum, crepidifolium change their names with every 



