[February, I860.] 33 



ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE FLOEA OF BELGIUM. 



By H. C. 



Our walks last summer having enabled me to add a few more 

 rarities to my herbarium^ I think the following list of them may 

 not be uninteresting to the readers of the ^ Phytologist/ espe- 

 cially those whom the facilities of steamboat and railroad travel- 

 ling may tempt to visit the picturesque environs of Dinant. As 

 before^ I name my plants alphabetically. 



Aconitum Lycoctonum. Valley of the Bocq, near the village of 

 Bauche, in a wood on the right bank of the stream, leading 

 towards Purnode. 

 Cotoneaster vulgaris. On the little ruin above the village of 



Houx, and in the adjoining wood. 

 Crepis biennis. One of our common meadow plants. 

 Gentiana cruciata. Fonds-des-Rivaux, between Houx and Di- 

 nant. 

 Helleborus viridis. On the bank of the Moulinet, near the ruins 

 of Montaigle. M. Crepin says, " well established and appa- 

 rently indigenous." 

 Hieracium Auricula. Persoon distinguishes H. dubium from H. 

 Auricula by describing the former with " scapo subquadri- 

 florOj nudo," while the latter has "scapo unifolio, subsex- 

 floro ;" but these do not seem to be constant characters, for 

 in many of my specimens the leaflet on the scape is wanting, 

 and few have more than four flowers. Plentiful in a meadow 

 between Houx and Arvagne, and on the waste ground above 

 the Fonds-des-Rivaux and Lefie. From this station I fear 

 cultivation, that enemy to botany, will soon extirpate it. 

 The last time I passed there, the ground was being ploughed 

 up and burnt, preparatory to sowing. 

 Orchis coriophora and ustulata. Meadows along the Meuse, be- 

 tween Yvoir and Godinne, where they grew abundantly. 

 Rumex scutatus is so common on our limestone rock, that I was 

 surprised to see it between brackets as doubtfully '' natural- 

 ized" near Edinburgh, in Babington's Manual, and alto- 

 gether excluded from Bentham's and Irvine's Handbooks. 

 Senecio paludosus. Island in the Meuse, opposite the village of 

 Houx. 



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