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cicutarium, without a stem ; and one of the common Rues of the 

 south of France (with the characteristic odour), Ruta angusti- 

 folia. Of LeguniinoscB there was still greater variety. To many 

 of the Barcelona species were added Lotus edulis, with its thick 

 curved pods, a plant M'hich I had found in Sicily ; and a Me- 

 lilotus, I believe sulcata ; the densely downy MecUcago marina, 

 the only beach plant in flower here at this period of the season ; 

 a Scorpiunis, probably the common species, S. subvillosa, though 

 its backward condition disables me from speaking positively ; and 

 a Hippocrepis, much more curious than the comesa, H. ciliata, 

 whose slender, jointed, crescent-shaped pods are scooped out on 

 the inner side in bay-like, nearly circular indentations, pene- 

 trating beyond the middle of the breadth, and justifying the title 

 of Horse-shoe Vetch. This plant was long confounded with //. 

 multisiliquosa, L., which it seems is a different species ; but those 

 who have seen our plant side by side with H. unisiliquosa, will 

 feel tempted to persist in giving it the contrasted name. The 

 next in order of the plants which I noticed, is the blue Asperula 

 arvensis. The CompositcB included the common Immortelle of 

 the garrigues, Helichrysum Stcechas ; a Santollna (I believe) 

 which I also found further north, but which I will not venture to 

 name ; the brilliant Chrysanthemum coronarium, only coming 

 into flower ; a most delicate little plant, the annual Daisy {Bellis 

 annua), more daintily coloured but more humble-looking than 

 even its better-known sister ; and lastly, one of the most curious 

 of the Cynoreee, Leuzea conifera, not six inches high, with a flower 

 occupying half its length, like a yellowish-white cone, with a 

 small opening at the top. The Corolliftura were many and 

 interesting : the exquisitely coloured Anagallis carulea ; the 

 splendid Convolvulus althceoides, in size resembling C. sepium, L., 

 in colour, C. arvensis ; the creeping Echium calycinum, one of 

 the least beautiful of its handsome tribe ; our common Snap- 

 dragon, Antirrhinum mojus, which here and in Languedoc is as 

 splendid as in English flower-gardens ; Linaria triphyllos, a plant 

 of cultivated ground, and its taller but less conspicuous sister, 

 L. simplex ; one of the handsomest of the genus Orobanche, O. 

 speciosa, in the same field as the Linaria first mentioned ; Plan- 

 tago Lagopus, and the rarer and more curious P. albicans ; and 

 six of the family.La^ia/te, being Mentha rotundifolia ; the com- 

 mon Lavender, Lavandula Spica ; that common plant of the 



