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A Tour to the South of France and the Pyrenees in the year 

 1825. By G. A. Walker Arnott, Esq. F.R. S.E. F.L.S. 

 M.W. S. &c. (Continued from former Volume, p. 356). 



JlXaving remained two days at Perpignan, to dry, pack up, 

 and send off the plants we had by this time gathered (to the 

 amount of 7600 specimens); we set off on the 10th June for 

 Aries in Roussillon. 



As the distance of Aries from Perpignan is not very great, 

 we arrived in sufficient time to make a short excursion to a hill a 

 little to the south of the village. It was in this walk that we first 

 began to meet witii Pyrenean plants, more strictly speaking, as 

 those we had already seen are to be found all around the Medi- 

 terranean. On this hill we found the Ramondm pyrenaica^ Pas- 

 serina dioica, Antirrhinum asarinum, Teucrium pyrenaicum^ 

 Achillea odorata, and Glohularia nana. This last is usually 

 imited to G. cordifolia ; but if they be not distinct species, they 

 are certainly most marked varieties. In all the herbaria I have 

 examined, I have never seen one specimen of G. nana from 

 Switzerland ; and, on the other hand, the G. cordifolia is so ex- 

 tremely scarce in the Pyrenees, that I have only observed it in 

 one spot, the Port de Benasque. I have also a specimen of the 

 G. nana from the garden of Perpignan, much larger than the 

 usual size of the wild plant ; but even cultivation does not shew 

 the characters of the Swiss plant. Among the Acotyledones, 

 we observed little worthy of notice. Aspidium Halleri and 

 Hypnum riigolosum, W. M. may, however, be mentioned. 



On the 11th, having experienced wretched accommodation, 

 we quitted Aries at an early hour. Approaching now the moun- 

 tains, we found the roads no longer practicable for wheel-car- 

 riages. We therefore resolved in future to travel almost entire- 

 ly on foot, followed by mules, to carry the paper, plants, and 

 provisions we found necessary to transport from station to sta- 

 tion. Notwithstanding we had left Aries by five, the sun was 

 already very hot, and annoyed us excessively, and that, joined 

 to the number of good plants we gathered along the road, re- 

 tarded us so much, that we did not arrive at Prats de Mollo 

 to breakfast till one o'clock. In this course, we observed for 

 the first time Prunella grandiflora, Silene nutans, Veronica 



