112 BOTANICAL INFORMATION, 
tainly quite distinct, so far as I can judge; it is suffrutesce 
throwing up many herbaceous erect stems, simple and about 
nine inches or a foot high; the leaves dense, deep green, ovat 
lanceolate and pointed ; the flowers are sessile and axillary, 
and the corolla, which I have not myself seen, is, according 
to Gaston, blue, with all the characters of L. purpu 
ceruleum ; the nuts very large and rugose, which lat 
peculiarity serves at once for a distinctive character. I shoul 
like to call it after this botanist, Lithospermum Gastoni. 
. ** Anotherinteresting species is an Iberis, evidently the sam 
as Lapeyrouse took for T. nana of Allioni, and which I i 
supposed identical with Z. spathulata. So far as I can judge 
from the books and materials at my command, this plant i 
distinct from both the above-named species, and especiall 
marked by its erect though very short stems, and much nar. 
rower and deeply toothed leaves: but I cannot venture t 
name and characterize it without farther comparison. | 
* Amongst a number of good Pyrenean plants, overlook 
by Dufour and Grenier, I may mention Medicago suffruticosa, 
which is common in elevated pastures, and my Lepidium 
heterophyllum, now found in several places. There is also 
dwarf Composita, allied to Serratula, of which I saw a sing 
specimen in Gaston’s collection that I do not recognise, ai 
every thing shows that there is still much to find in the centre 
of the Pyrenzan chain and on the Spanish side. Indeed, | 
have no doubt, that were a little time at my disposal in t 
neighbourhood, I might, even at this advanced season of 
year, make new discoveries in the Flora of the Pyrénées.’ 
| .* BacNinzs pe Bicorre, Sept. 
.. * We came hither on the first of this month, after having 
spent a fortnight at the Bagnéres de Luchon, a place we 
known as forming a point from whence several of the ric 
tanical excursions in the central Pyrénées may be. 
With the greatest convenience. The alpine meadows 
Esquierry and Medapoles, never fed off, but only mown 
in the year, the extensive glaciers of Or and Crabioules, 
