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October, the diligences had ceased running, the hotels were 

 deserted, and there was not a single pensionnaire remaining 

 in Bagneres-de-Luchon. Before this period arrived, I ex- 

 plored every promising locality, extending my excursions be- 

 yond the frontier into both Arragon and Catalonia, and on 

 the French side as far as Esquierry and the Lacs d'Oc. Some 

 of my best mosses were gathered in the Vallee du Lys, and 

 on the lofty mountain of Crabioules, which terminates it on 

 the west; they include Bryum elongatum in several forms, 

 Cephalogonium longirostre, Dicranum denticulatum, flavellum, 

 longifolium and Sauieri, Fissidens osmundioides, Trichostomum 

 tortile, Ancsctangium compactum (in fruit), magnificent speci- 

 mens of Hypnum Crista-castrensis, reflexum, salebrosum and 

 nmbratum, Isothecium cladorhizans, Anacamptodon splach- 

 noides, Jungermannia julacea, Madotheca platyphylloidea, 

 Schwein., &c. The Vallee de Burbe, which conducts to the 

 Spanish village of Bossost, through the Port de Portillon, is 

 also rich. Here I gathered Dicranum curvatum, Hedw., and 

 the rare D. fulvum, Hook. Muse. Exot., besides Mnium me- 

 dium, Leskea rostrata, Leiochlaena lanceolata, and several 

 others. On the mountain called Superbagneres, which rises 

 immediately from the back of the town, 1 found Didymodon 

 cylindricus, Ceralodon cylindricus, Bryum concinnatum, MSS., 

 and a very distinct new species of Plagiochila (PI. Pyrenaica, 

 MSS.) allied to PI. interrupta and porelloides, Nees. 

 On the3rd of September I investigated the gorge of Esquierry, 

 called, with great propriety, " le Jardin des Pyrenees f for in 

 no other place that I have visited do rare and beautiful plants 

 grow in such abundance and luxuriance. But it is impossible 

 M. the space of a single day, to explore it fully ; and I was quite 

 bewildered amongst the multitude of good things, not knowing 

 which to take and which to leave, yet unable to gather all, not- 

 withstanding that I had left Bagneres-de-Luchon by starlight, 

 and instead of returning there the same evening, slept in a 

 cabane, near Lac d'Espingo. There was no lack of Mosses, 

 Du t I was too much occupied with flowers to pay them the 

 requisite attention ; I found, however, Bryum acuminatum and 



