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the first glance, to Bisserrula Pelecinus ; aud another, tlie com- 

 monest, but one of the most gorgeous of this splendid genus, 

 which grows in Normandy, and ought to grow in Kent, A. mons- 

 pessulanus. My Catalonian specimens were not of the usual 

 colour, but paler, and with a mixture of yellow ; a character 

 attributed to the neighbouring A. incanus, but not, so far as I 

 know, to any form of monspessulanus ; this plant, however, seemed 

 to possess the essential charevcters of the more common species. 

 Among Leguminosie not yet in flower, I may mention two 

 common plants of southern Europe, the bushy Dorycnium suffru- 

 ticosum, with its small round heads of pale flowers, which I have 

 known to whiten at a distance large spaces of ground ; and the 

 trefoiled Psoralea bicuminosa, with its elegant floweinng clusters, 

 and long axillary peduncles. 



The greatest ornaments however of these bushy hills were 

 the Cisti, which form in some places a great part of the whole 

 vegetation. Without reckoning Helianthemums, there were four 

 species of C'isius proper ; bushes covered all over with large and 

 brilliant blossoms; the decumbent salvicefolius, with its milk- 

 white cups ; the erect albidus, with its grey foliage and delicate 

 mallow-coloured flowers, larger than the largest wild Rose; the 

 stiflish, narrow-leaved monspeliensis, with flowers rather smaller 

 than salvicefolius, flat and wheel-like, instead of cup-shaped ; and 

 a rarer species than any of these, C. Ledon, Avhich, with monspe- 

 liensis, by their viscous touch, and rich resinous smell, form a 

 transition to the real European Gum Cisti, C. ladaniferus and 

 laurif alius. The Cisti, happily for Spanish landscape, are, like 

 the Ericce, gregarious plants, and, of all Cisti I know, none are 

 so gregarious as C. Ledon. Near Perpignan, and on the plateau 

 of Morieres, near Avignon, it covers acres of ground. Of Corol- 

 lifloroe not previously mentioned, I noticed a Verbascum, pro- 

 bably V. Boerhavii ; the deep blue Lithospermum purpurocaru- 

 leum, not unknown in England, and one of the most frequent as 

 well as beautiful of the wood and thicket plants of the South in 

 April and May ; Veronica Teucrium, which vies with, if it does 

 not surpass our beautiful Chamcedrys ; that curious plant, La- 

 vandula Stoechas, named, like several other plants, from the isles 

 of Hyeres, but tolerably general in the south of Europe; and 

 Stachys hirta, a plant in France confined to the extreme south- 

 eastern corner. Other plants in flower were, a rare but rather 



