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account of the botany of this island, which you may 

 compare with that of Sibthorp and others who have 

 visited it, probably at different seasons of the year. 

 The aspect of it is very mountainous, and clothed 

 with olive woods : near the city a fertile plain. I 

 have not yet extended my ramble to any distance 

 from the city. The orange-trees are magnificent, 

 and are now loaded with fruit. The olives are co- 

 vered with their black berries. Gigantic Arundo 

 Donate, and Cactus Opuntia of considerable size, di- 

 versify the prospect. The extensive cultivation of 

 the Artichoke is curious ; it serves for hedges, and 

 very pretty ones. There are hedges, too, of scarlet 

 Cape Geraniums, more I think for ornament than 

 protection. In fact, it is an open country, — a garden. 

 Here is a sort of calendar of Flora, which you 

 may compare with Norfolk on the same day, if you 

 have made similar notes : — 



Corfu, March 81. 



Elder-tree in flower; Brambles, ditto ; Pome- 

 granate in young leaf, having the appearance of a 

 red bush; Fig-tree in young leaf; Scrophularia 

 peregrina in flower ; along with the following plants 

 in flower: — 



Chrysanthemum segetum ; Common Scarlet Poppy; 

 Lathyrus a/a (us ; Fumaria capreolata ; Geranium, 

 unknown to me, — like molle, but five or six times 

 larger, — not pyrenaicum ; Thlaspi Bursa pastoris, 

 of a size little inferior to Cardamine amara ; Aspho- 

 delus ramosus and Phlomis fruticosa, very showy 

 plants ; Anemone hortensis ; Hyacinthus racemo- 

 sus ; Ornithogalum exscapum (of Tenore), nanum 



