464, Dr. R. C. Alexander’s Account of a Botanical 
Omphalodes verna and Spirea 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 I found Sazifraga cuneifolia, Quercus 
Cerris, Veronica urticifolia, Silene gallica and Euonymus 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. Carex ampullacea and C. hirta 
var. sublevis 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 Thal 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 “adhue sub judice lis est.” Dianthus syl- 
vestris, Biscutella levigata 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 Mraxinus Ornus and Spirea Aruncus 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 Hrysimum, 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. £. carniolicum, odoratum, 
strictum, repandum, crepidifolium change their names with every 
