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sea level, is 20 miles from a railway station, and 3^ miles from 

 the Italian frontier. The River Boite runs through the valley, 

 flanked by meadow lands, which gently slope up to the perpen- 

 dicular rocky walls of towering dolomite that hem in the land- 

 scape. At the bases of the crags many interesting botanical 

 specimens were obtained. The meadow slopes were covered 

 with masses of Pa/radisia Liliastrum, Bertol (=Anthericum 

 Liliastrum, L.) with large funnel-shaped white flowers about two 

 inches long. The plant is rare, but is found in Carniola, Carinthia, 

 the Jura, and the Pyrenees, as well as in the Tyrol. A colony 

 of these plants in bloom forms a very beautiful and attractive 

 sight. Patches of Polygonatum officinale, All. (= Convallaria 

 Polygonatum, L.) with stems about 6 inches long, and with 

 flowers larger than those of P. muUifloi'um and generally solitary, 

 were seen among the rocks. Here also were a large number of 

 the very rare and strictly local Orchis glohosa, L., easily detected 

 by its pink or purple flowers arranged in a dense hemispherical 

 spike. Anemone trifolia, L., sometimes with blue flowers, was 

 blooming profusely on all the slopes. A straggling shrub, with 

 large pea-like yellow flowers, never before discovered anywhere 

 by Dr. Brown, was tentatively identified with Cytisus hirsutus, L. 

 A plant resembling Veronica alpina in appearance turned out to 

 be Pcederota bonarota, L. It has a blue corolla, the calyx and 

 bracts being purple, and the flowers are arranged in terminal 

 heads or spikes. Scro2)hularia Hopjyei, Koch., a rather rare species 

 of Figwort with purple corollas, was local at 5,000 feet. Eorminum 

 pyrenaicum, L., was common in the meadows ; Aronia rotundi- 

 folia, Pers., the Snowy Medlar, higher up ; and at the base of the 

 snow Anemone hepatica, L., was in flower, intermixed with 

 Soldanella alpina, W. 



Orchis $ambucina, L., a very rare yellow orchid, grew high on 

 the Caprile Pass, and Cypripedium Calceolus, L., was detected 

 blooming in loose gravelly detritus far up the mountain side. 

 The rare Pedicularis rosea, Wulf., and P. elongata, Kern, 

 specially local in the Dolomite country, were both come across. 

 Where the snow was melting, Soldanella pyrolcefolia, Kotsch, 

 a rare species, and S. minima, Hoppe var. alba, were discovered 

 in some abundance. 



Of true Alpine plants, which were difiicult to obtain on account 



