and the Pyrenees^ in 1825. 77 



some mistake *. As to tlie Hedxvigia aquatica^ few botanists 

 would credit me should I say I gathered none of it ; but fewer 

 still will believe that I was at the pains to fill all my pockets, 

 and my hat as full as possible. While thvis engaged, one of 

 our companions came up, and assured me I had taken " bien 

 assez pour tous les botanists en Europe.*" " Voila dont pour 

 PAmerique," was all I had time to answer, while I proceeded 

 in my labours. There is certainly something very delightful 

 in finding in quantities any thing one has been long eager to 

 lay hold of. At the fountain, or rather in the river below the 

 fountain, I was highly satisfied to have clear demonstration that 

 the Hypnum VaUisdausce was only H.Jilicinum in an injured 

 state. I had long suspected such to be the case, from my exa- 

 minations of both in the herbarium. At the edge of the river 

 I found the H. Jilicinum abundantly, and in fruit ; while in 

 the deeper part of the river, I detected the H. vallisclausce 

 without fructification. By a careful examination I, however, 

 at length found, in a place where the water was shallow, a few 

 specimens so completely between the two species, that now 

 none I should think can doubt of their identity. Of the same 

 specimen, the lower part was the H. vallisclauste, while the 

 upper part, which was out of the water, was in fruit, and be- 

 longed as certainly to H.Jilicinum. it 



" On the road out from Avignon in the morning, we had 

 observed fields as yellow with the Crepis nemausensis, as 

 they are white in England with the Bellis perennis or daisy. 

 Abundance of Erodium romanum was every where by the way 

 side ; while some garriques, or waste lands, were as well stocked 

 with Genista scorpius and Quercus coccifer, as some fields in 

 Scotland with the Ulex europaus or furze. 



" Had time permitted us I should have been delighted to 

 have gone over the mountains some leagues farther than Vau- 

 cluse to Mont Ventoux, a mountain of considerable elevation 

 (6650 feet English), and on which there are some very remark- 



• I had been led into an error. Dr Smith's words, I find, are, " Here, 

 too, we found something much resembling Targionia^ but which proved only 

 Marchantia hemispharica, with its flowers budding. It is, however, the Aito- 

 nia rupestris of Forster {Rupinia lichenoides of liinn. Supp.), as I can prove 

 from original specimens. Messrs Broussonet and Sibihorp assured me thej 

 found the true Targimia in this place." 



