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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 Micheli, Muscart 
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 frwt. 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. 
Conifere cannot be made to grow there. M. Hirschhofer, 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, Pyrus torminalis, Aria, 
Amelanchier, communis and Malus, Staphylea pinnata, Fraxinus 
Ornus, Ostrya and beech. Crategus monogyna in the woods 
about Pischitz assumes almost the character of the weeping 
willow, and is one of the greatest ornaments of the forest. 
