Excursion in Lower Styria. 459 
month rendered it much less agreeable and remunerating than, 
from the richness of the flora and the hospitality 1 met with 
everywhere, it would otherwise have been. Many plants turned 
mouldy from the impossibility of drying my paper in the sun. 
There was only one fine day from the 3rd to the end of the 
month. 
At Marburg I found Lamium Orvala and Anemone trifolia, 
which comes with the Drave from Carinthia, and is abundant on 
its banks and the hills near it, but appears nowhere else I believe 
in Styria. At Wurmberg I collected several with blue flowers, 
but the colour is nearly lost in drying. The forests on the 
Bacher were just beginning to revive from the unusually long 
winter. This mountain forms a marked boundary in the vege- 
tation. It is about 5000 feet high, twenty English miles long, 
and five or six broad, and covered with forests left from time 
immemorial to a state of nature, and only inhabited by wolves 
and other wild beasts. On the first view of the country to the 
south of it, the greater number and beauty of many trees, which 
to the north of it occur as isolated individuals, and the scarcity 
of others, such as the Conifere and birches, which form the forests 
of Upper Styria, make an impression on the traveller that he 
has entered a different climate. The aspect of Lower Styria has 
nothing of the savage dismal character of the northern part of 
the province, but its magnificent streams the Save and Drave 
amply compensate for the precipices and waterfalls ; and one who 
can feel the beauty of a quiet and unobtrusive majestic scenery 
without requiring the harsher features of a landscape to awaken 
their attention, will feel as deep and lasting an interest in the 
valley of the Save, and at Wisell; Wurmberg, Cilli and other 
spots in that district, as in the Alps. 
From Marburg I went to Stattenberg, a castle at the foot of 
the Wotsch, ten English miles west of Pettau, and remained there 
a fortnight with Mr. Peterstein, a botanist well acquainted with 
the localities. Among many other plants which being common 
about Gratz I did not collect, were Serophularia vernalis, Lapsana 
fetida, abundant in every wood, Potentilla micrantha, Veronica aci- 
nifolia, Lunaria rediviva, Arabis turrita, Dentaria enneaphylios, bul- 
bifera, and the rare trifolia, Glecoma hirsuta, Scopolina atropoides, 
Loranthus europeus, Astrantia Epipactis, and Aremonia agrimo- 
moides, a plant that had been singularly overlooked, though very 
abundant in shady moist woods im all parts of Lower Styria south 
of the Bacher. These on the north side of the Wotsch, in warm 
dry situations: Aronia rotundifolia, Helianthemum elandicum 
oliis incanis, Cytisus prostratus, Scop.? Thlaspi montanum, 
Orchis pallens and sambucina, usually in the woods, Genista 
seariosa, Viv. (triquetra, W. K.), Homogyne sylvestris, Carpinus 
