13* Mr Amotfs Tour to the South of France 



ever be rid of the nuisance, unless he takes the advice we gave 

 him, that he should refrain from sowing beans in the neigh- 

 bourhood for at least a season, and at the same time procure 

 new seed from a distance. Soon after leaving the farm on which 

 these plants are found, ^ met with Ramondia pyrenaica and 

 Erinus alpinus. Hieracium auricula was also in the neigh- 

 bourhood ; and on some rooks near the summit Globularia nana 

 was abundantly in flower. But the most interesting plant we 

 observed was Saxifraga media, Gouan {S. calyciflora. Lap.), 

 which was abundant in the crevices of the walls of the tower ; 

 and along with it also on the summit, are found Moehringia 

 muscosa, Lonicera pyrenaica, Festucajlavescens, and Valeriana 

 tripteris and montana. These two last are surely but one spe- 

 cies ; they here were mixed together, with innumerable states 

 between them. On our descent, we also observed several plants 

 of interest, as Avena versicolor, DC. {Av. sempervirens ^ , Lap. 

 and Vill. not Schrad.), Helleborus viridis, Arahis alpina, and 

 Alchemilla hyhrida, Hoffm. or A. puhescens, Lap. Notwith- 

 standing the elevation, it will be seen that the plants were not 

 very alpine. 



During the few days we made Prats de MoUo our head-quar- 

 ters, we experienced the utmost kindness and attention from M. Xa- 

 tard,t/^^^^ dePaix of the canton. He has been long occupied with 

 the botany of this department of the Eastern Pyrenees, and it was 

 he who furnished Lapeyrouse with all the plants he has cited to 

 grow about Collioure, Bagnols, and Prats de Mollo. He not 

 only allowed us to examine his herbarium, in order to determine 

 some of the plants that Lapeyrouse had in view, but procured 

 us the guides whom he himself usually took, and who were con- 



" Av. sempervirens has, in some way, got strangely confounded with De- 

 yexuna sedenensis, Clar. although in this last there is only one fertile floret ac- 

 companied by a sterile one, or subulate pilose process, as is well represented 

 in P. de Beauvois' figure, and which accords precisely with my specimen. 

 Av. Icmgifolia^ Thore, has also been confounded with Av^ sempervirens^ but its 

 glumes contain only two florets, and only one of them is provided with an 

 awn or arista. I may here mention, that Deyeuxia sedenensis does not appear 

 to me to differ from D. montana^ the figure of which last in Pallissot, is not 

 correct. Several other species of what are put into the genus Calamagrostis^ 

 have the twisted geniculate awn ; and the whole of that genus, having the 

 inner valve of the corolla bicarinate, has been erroneously arranged by Kunth 

 near Agrostis. 



