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Prenanthes purpurea. 

 Soyeria lapsanoides. 

 Phyteuraa orbiculare. 

 Plantago Cynops. 

 Andropogon Ischsemum. 

 Eragrostis megastachya. 

 Setaria viridis. 



We passed the night of the 19th at Bareges, whence we 

 set out early the following morning, accompanied by a guide, 

 to cross the Tourmalet, Dr. S. intending to return to his 

 family at Luz, and myself to proceed to Bagneres-de-Bigorre 

 the same evening. We had hoped to herborize on the Tour- 

 malet, but were prevented by the dense fog which covered all 

 the mountains. This changed into a drizzling rain when I 

 descended to Grip, at the extremity of the Vallee de Campan, 

 and continued so for the remaining nine miles of the journey, 

 so that I entered Bagneres in no very enviable plight. I 

 gathered, however, on my route, Paronychia argentea and 

 Daphne Cneorum, besides a few mosses, of which Bryum pal- 

 lescens and Encalypta streptocarpa in fruit are the most inte- 

 resting. The latter I afterwards found to fructify abundantly 

 on the walls and in calcareous soil in the woods about 

 Bagneres. 



I was addressed at Bagneres to M. Philippe, a very liberal 

 and excellent dealer in objects of natural history, and to M. de 

 •kugo, a learned and accomplished Spaniard, both ardently 

 attached to botanical pursuits. The former was a domestic of 

 the late Baron Cuvier, from whom he acquired a taste for, and 

 some knowledge of natural history. Thirteen years ago he 

 established himself in the centre of the Pyrenees as an em- 

 padleur, and in the course of a few years succeeded in amass- 

 ing a considerable collection of the animals, birds, insects, and 

 minerals of the Pyrenees, to which he afterwards joined the 

 howering-plants, and he is now completing his museum by 

 the addition of the Cryptogamia. To any naturalist visiting 



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