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u fine rose colour, of the size of a sixpence, orna- 

 menting all the road sides. 



Hedysarum coronarium (not mProdr.). I wonder 

 this showy flower did not fall in Sibthorp's way. — I 

 have found a Senccio that may be new : it is like 

 vulgaris, wanting the ray florets, but much larger, 

 and pale sulphur yellow, with long slender florets 

 that are protruded and make a sort of bush. 



April 4. 



There are now in flower some plants not in the 

 Prodromus, viz. 



Lotus maritimus ; Vicia grandiflora {sordida, 

 Willd.). Cerastium manticum (a curious species, 

 hitherto little understood, to which I would give the 

 following specific character : " Cerastium erectum 

 glaberri?num pedunculis longissimis e?'ectis, calyce 

 me?nbranaceo,petalisfere integrisT A curious little 

 Euphorbia, {nova species ?) resembling E. Peplus a 

 little, but has a 5-rayed umbel, and echinate capsules : 

 the petals also are entire, not lunate or horned. 

 A species of Muscari with blue flowers of a large 

 size. — Besides these, which seem additions to the 

 Flora Graca, I see a beautiful Malvaceous plant, — a 

 Afalope, with rosy flowers three inches in diameter ; 

 blue Lupins ; Bartsia latifolia ; Serapias Lingua; 

 Delphinium Staphisagria (not in flower) ; Coronilla 

 cretica ; Medicago circinata ; Omithopus compres- 

 sus ; Trifol. subterra7ieum ; Picridium vulgare ; 

 Thelygonum Cynocrambe. 



I remain, dear Sir, with the greatest regard, 



H. F. Talbot. 



