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endeavoured to fall in with at the Pont de Gard. Bentham 

 and Delile had seen it in bud about a fortnight ago, and we 

 hoped to get it in full flower. After a fatiguing walk up hill 

 and down hill for three hours and a half, in which time the sun 

 had broke forth with all his power, we came to the Capouladon. 

 I deserved some recompence, for never did I suffer so by the 

 heat. We proceeded at the rate of full four miles an hour ; 

 but this gave no more inconvenience to my companions, than 

 it would to me in a Highland glen with my gun in my hand in 

 the month of August. We arrived at the Capouladon, and found 

 the Cyclamen still en houton, apparently not more advanced than 

 it was a fortnight ago. 



" From the Capouladon, we descended by a romantic ravine 

 (I say romantic^ but there was no stream, no not even a drop 

 of water to moisten the parched valley), for a mile or two, un- 

 til we arrived on the banks of the Herault. On the banks of 

 this river we met with Lycopodium denticulatum (a species per- 

 haps too much allied to L. helveticum), and Hepatica triloba : 

 on some rocks Glohularia alyssum and Coronilla glauca. We 

 returned to St Martin in the evening by a small hill called 

 Agasse. This is the patois name for the Acer Monspeliensis, 

 which is very abundant on this hill. Owing to the elevation of 

 most of the ground we had passed, the vegetation was not so 

 much advanced as at Montpellier. 



*' To-day Dehle and Duval set off for Montpellier, and we 

 for Restenclieres. We botanized by the way, and got some good 

 plants. Leucodon sciuroides and Pterogonium Smithii were 

 in a fine state of fructification. In one valley. Erica arhorea, 

 with its handsome white blossoms, and which deserves as good 

 a place in our gardens as the Cape heaths, was abundant, as 

 well as the Erica scoparia. Lavandula stuechas, scarcely yet in 

 flower, covered the side of a hill. On the rocks here was also 

 Lichen mamillaris of Gouan, a species which can be only con- 

 founded with Lecidea Candida. It does not appear to have 

 be taken up by Acharius or any other lichenologist, nor is it 

 noticed in Steudel's Nomenclator Botanicus *. 



• I have since ascertained it to be L. tumidulus^ Smith, Linn. Trans. ; but 

 Sir James himself has since united it in English Botany, t. 1138. to Lichen 

 (Lecidea) candidus. I almost think there are good marks of distinction. 



