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impetuosity than before. Angers, Varades, Ancenis are passed, 
his horse covered with foam, stained with the blood which still 
trickled from his own wounds. 
At length the city of Nantes was dimly seen in the distance. 
Nantes, which contained his life, his soul, his whole existence. He 
encourages the wearied animal, which seems to understand his fran- 
tic exclamations, so well did it perform its arduous task. He en- 
ters the town—he is at the gates of the prison—his horse sinks 
under him !—what matter ?—he is arrived! ‘‘ Blanche, Blanche!” 
was the only word he could utter. ‘ Two carts have this instant 
left the gates for the place of execution,” replied the porter, “she is 
in the first.’ Marceau stood to hear no more. A terrible curse 
broke from his lips as, rushing wildly through the streets, he forced 
his way through the crowd, waving the paper over his head, and 
crying “ Pardon, pardon!” He passed the hindermost cart. A 
well-known voice exhorted him to increase his speed. It was Tinguy 
who addressed him. In another minute he arrived in face of the 
scaffold. The executioner was holding aloft, by the long fair hair, 
the head of a beautiful girl! A fearful cry of rage and despair, in 
which all the strength of human passion seemed blended, rang 
through the ears of the astonished multitude. Marceau recognized 
the features of Blanche de Beaulieu ! 
E. 
OBSERVATIONS 
ON THE -SPECIES OF ZANNICHELLIA. 
By Ab. STEINHEIL.* 
WueEwn Micheli established his genus Zannichellia, he made known 
two species of it which were found in the environs of Florence, and 
gave of each an excellent figure for that time. Linnzus adopted the 
genus of Micheli, but united the two species which that author had 
distinguished, and admitted only one species, under the name of Z. 
“ Translated from the Annales des Sciences Naturelles, vol. 9, p. 87, by W, 
A. Leicuton, B.A. F.B.S.E. &c. 
