52 Dr. Arnott' s Botanical Excursimi to the Rhhms of Galloway. 



the Tfi. Mrtiun of Linn., which is not found, so far as I know, beyond the 

 region of the olives : he made the remark also, that the English plant 

 seemed quite imknown on the continent. In 182.5, however, I met with 

 an allied plant in the Pyrennees, which interested me a good deal : we 

 found it in the Vallee d' Eynes, on the 24th June, riuitc glabrous : at La 

 Massane, in the republic of Andorra, on the 9th July, with the leaves 

 glabrous, and stem hairy : and at Mont Louis on the 29th June, with both 

 leaves and stem haiiy, and in no respect distinguishable from the English 

 plant. That this species, scattered over the Pyrennees, could not be unknown 

 to De CandoUe was highly probable, and it agreed so well with his T/daspi 

 heterojjhyllum, as to leave no doubt on the matter. Bentham in his Cat. 

 des Plantes des Pyrenees et de Bas Languedoc, published in 1826, placed 

 it in its proper genus, and gave it the name of Lepidium heterophyUum, 

 characterising it as well as L. campestre, and L. hirtum. He did not, 

 however, advert to the Mont Louis hairy specimens, and speaks only of the 

 glabrous leaved form ; this prevented him comparing it with the English 

 and north of France plant, which in his remarks under L. hirtum, he 

 says, seemed only a variety of L. campestre. While drawing up some 

 notes connected with my excursion to the Pyrenees, I was led to recon- 

 sider the whole subject, and in August 1829, I published a note in 

 Jameson's Journal, (p. 321,) pointing out that there was no essential differ- 

 ence between the English plant and the Pyrenean one, and to that opinion 

 I still adhere. The name L. heterophyUum is thus the older one by four 

 years, and ought to be retained, although it must be confessed the other 

 is always more likely to be adopted in this coimtry. I have no specimen 

 from the north of France, but I have no doubt whatever that it is as com- 

 mon there as in this country. A small plant, L. humifumim, from 

 the mountains of Corsica, described by Requien in the Ann. des. Sc. 

 Nat. V. p. 385, 1 can scarcely distinguish from the Pyrenean glabrous one. 

 On arriving at Drumore, our driver took us to what he believed the best 

 inn ; but as we had been directed to go elsewhere, we, after making an 

 inspection of the premises, returned to the car, and drove to another. In 

 this we punished ourselves, for unquestionably the driver was in the 

 right, as far as cleanness was concerned ; and as for accommodation, they 

 were on a par, for none of the magnificent hotels of that town can boast 

 of more than a couple of beds for strangers. In the one we went to, on 

 the shore, they could only accommodate one half of our small party, two 

 having to seek nests elsewhere ; and to add to our misfortune, the clean 

 inn we had first been at, now refused them admittance, no doubt offended 

 with our deserting them : and as it is not the custom in that primitive 

 place, to charge for lodging when one breakfasts or sups in the house, 

 the good people having been baulked of us in one way, had reason on 

 their side in refusing us mere lodging, for during the day one or two 

 visitors might possibly (though not probably) turn up. This leads me 

 to observe, that any excursion to the Mull of Galloway, in which the 

 party consists of more than four, will find themselves too numerous; if less 



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