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tilul plant, perfectly distinct from L. album, and from all the cultivated 

 states of L. maculatum I have ever seen. It occurs with both pink 

 and white flowers. 



The afternoon of Tuesday the 5th found me again at Redland, whi- 

 ther I went for the purpose of collecting Bromus erectus, which is the 

 principal grass in many meadows both here and at Horfield : but the 

 scythe had swept all away. To make amends, and not go home emp- 

 ty handed, I pursued my walk until my vasculum was filled with Acer 

 campestre in firuit, Poa compressa, Festuca myurus and Arenaria ser- 

 jjyllifolia. 



On Wednesday, July 6, we made an excursion to Clevedon, a lovely 

 and highly picturesque watering place, twelve miles S.W. of Bristol. 

 Our road lay first through Ashton, wdiere, on the old shaded wall as- 

 cending the hill towards Failand, six species of ferns at once present- 

 ed themselves; — Ceterach officinarum, Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum, 

 A. Trichomanes, A. Ruta-muraria, Scolopendrium vulgare and Poly- 

 podium vulgare : Lastraea Filix-mas and Pteris Aquilina grow upon 

 the bank above, only a few feet distant. It was upon this identical 

 wall that, ten years ago, I first gathered them ; and although the inte- 

 rest then excited by their novelty could not be renewed to me, their 

 original beauty was still present, and filled my mind with a thousand 

 pleasant memories. 



Further up the hill, Cnicus acaulis 0. caulescens was gi-owing among 

 the gravel by the road-side. Thenceforward, until we approached 

 Tickenham, nothing remarkable presented itself, that is, nothing of 

 botanical interest, a circumstance which none could regret, when 

 compensated for by so glorious a prospect as that here enjoyed. On 

 descending the hill to the village of Tickenham, I found Linum an- 

 gustifolium in flower and fi-uit, Phleum arenarium. Verbena officinalis, 

 and Salvia verbenaca in fruit ; while the high banks, even down to 

 the very carriage-way, were adorned with a profusion of flowers such 

 as I have never beheld, except in that one favoured spot. Papaver 

 Rhoeas, Cichorium Intybus, Galium verum, Malva moschata, M. syl- 

 vestris, wild roses, and a multitude of others no less showy, blended 

 their bright hues beneath the unclouded sun more beautifully than 

 pen can describe. Thence, all the way to Clevedon, the old walls 

 and dry hedge-banks were clothed with an infinite quantity of Cete- 

 rach oflicinarum and Cotyledon Umbilicus ; the handsome branched 

 variety of the latter being equally abundant with the ordinary simple- 

 stemmed state of the plant. Here and there in the hedges Campanula 

 Trachelium showed itself; and occasionally, on walls, Sedum acre, S. 



