4.60 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, 
visitng 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 Sawifraga 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. 
vwipara, Orchis militaris, globosa and variegata; m damper 
situations Scrophularia Scopoli, 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 beg nearly the 
same I take them together, omitting what I also found on the 
Wotsch. Moenchia mantica, Koch, Campanula sibirica, and 
Silene rubella, Wulfen, all now discovered for the first time in 
Styria: that is, nobody had announced their discovery before, 
and in these matters “Paulum sepulte distat inertie 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 Téplitz in Croatia has lately sent it as 
S. linicola to Dr. Haffner. The Campanula sibirica, as well as 
Cytisus prostratus, Scop., and Helianthemum canum, | 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 
first 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. cerul., 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 
