436 TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF THE [Sess. Lxviii. 



tubuloso-campanulatus quinquedentatus, 15-17 (12-30) 

 mm. longug, extra tomento aureo facillime detergibili, post 

 delapsum tomenti niger, intus glaber, dentibus rotuiidatis 

 mucronatis densius vestitis ; corolla infundibuliformis, 

 6-6*5 cm. longa, lobis 1*5 cm. longis extra pilosis, lutea, 

 parte auteriore intus densissime villosa ; stamina 7—8 mm. 

 supra basin inserta ; filamenta minora 16-18 mm., majora 

 23—25 mm. longa ; staminodium 7 mm.; thec;e 3— 3'5 mm.; 

 ovarium glabrum 4— 4'o mm. longum ; stylus 26—27 mm.; 

 discus vix 1 mm. altus. 



In campo prope San Estanislao, Ha'isler, 4159, 4164. 



On a Botanical Visit to the Balearic Islands 

 IN April 1903. By James W, White, F.L.S., President 

 of the Bristol and District Pharmaceutical Association. 

 Communicated by Alex. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S. (With 

 Specimens in Illustration.) 



(Read 10th December 1903.) 



Many good things come to him who pursues a hobby. 

 I do not say to him who 2Jossesscs a hobby, for my own is 

 to me a bright attraction ever in sight but always ahead of 

 me, pleasantly and irresistibly luring me on to a pursuit 

 that can never end in possession, because there can be no 

 finality in the work that the pursuit entails. 



Delightful experiences lie thickly by the track along 

 which the field-botanist is beckoned ; and among them, 

 journeys to foreign lands in search of plants are perhaps 

 the richest in charm and suggestion. Pictures of bygone 

 rambles rise radiant in the memory as one turns over the 

 herbarium sheets, and such visions not only awaken and 

 recall many happy scenes, but stimulate to new effort and 

 research. Probably no trip will more delight and soothe 

 my fancy in after hours than that which has inspired the 

 present paper. 



The date was Monday the 20th of April, in the Easter 

 vacation, and as my fellow-traveller's engagements made it 

 necessary for him to be again in England on the 8 th of 

 May, there resulted eighteen days for a couple of botanists 

 interested in the European flora to use to the best advan- 



