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left us, taking the nearest road home, and we went down the valley, where Potentilla 

 fruticosa and other plants grow in abundance. For more than a mile we were almost 

 lost in juniper bushes, with the river on our right hand and high cliffs on our left : 

 here we found Arbutus Uva-ursi. When we again reached High Force we gathered 

 Festuca vivipara andAvena alpina? on the rocks; this is another place where the river 

 falls twenty or thirty yards down the rocks, which are here, as in other parts of Tees- 

 dale, gloriously painted with Lecidea geographica. 



The next day we returned homewards, well laden with plants ; visited the lead- 

 mines at Middleton, fourteen miles from Brough. At Church-Brough Castle gathered 

 Trifolium procumbens, Carduus acanthoides and Conium maculatum. Here we had 

 to wait five hours before the coach came up from Barnard Castle to take us to Kirby 

 Lonsdale. We had scarcely taken our seats when the horses started off without guard 

 or coachman, and upset the coach on a bridge; I was so much injured as to be quite 

 incapable of making further observations, and thus ended my botanical excursion in 

 Teesdale. 



Art. XLTI. — List of Plants collected by M. Schimper in Abyssinia. 

 By N. B. Ward, Esq. 



Wellclose Square, October 20, 1841. 

 My dear Sir, 



Among the numerous collections of plants made by the Unio Itineraria, 

 there are few that equal, and none that surpass in interest, the collection made by 

 Schimper in Abyssinia. The portion which has reached this country contains about 

 300 species, mostly procured in the neighbourhood of Adowa; an enumeration of which 

 I send you, as I think it will gratify the readers of ' The Phytologist.' 



I have marked with an * the few species which are also natives of Britain. 



And am, 



My dear Sir, 



Your's very truly, 



N. B. Ward. 



To the Editor of ' The Phytologist.' 



Ranunculacem. 

 Clematis simensis 



glaucescens 

 Delphinium dasycaulon 



Umbelliferce. 

 Hydrocotyle asiatica 

 *Sium nodiflorum 

 Anethum gi-aveolens 

 Caucalis abyssinica 

 Tragium hirtellum 

 Ammi pauciradiatum 

 Torilis africana 



Vitacece. 

 Cissus adenantha 



Cissus Schimperi 

 Vitis erythrodes 



Myrtaceos. 

 Syzygium guineense 



Loranthacece. 

 Viscum nervosum 

 Loranthus Schimperi 

 (No. 250) 

 Cucurbitacece. 

 Momordica pterocarpa 

 Bryonia scrobiculata 



ResedacecE. 

 Reseda abyssinica 



SapindacecB. 

 Dodonaea arabica 



PohjgalacecB. 

 Polygala punctulata 



LinacecB. 

 Linum abyssinicum 

 SterculiacecE. 

 XeropetalumBrucei. Pen- 

 tapetes. Bruce, Tr. 

 V. pi. 2. 

 MalvacecB. 

 Pavonia Schimperiana 

 Sida triloba 

 tricuspis 



