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straightened out, than the central stem, a mode of growth sufficiently 

 marked and sufficiently common to deserve a peculiar name. 



I was disappointed as to Salicornias, finding only one species, some^ 

 thing between herbacea and procumbens, the same which I have 

 already mentioned at Agde. The trains leave La Teste only late in 

 the evening and early in the morning ; and I returned the same day 

 to Bayonne. 



On the 18th I went to Angoulerae, a town picturesquely placed on 

 a high point of land above the river Charente, and possessing a cathe- 

 dral, very interesting from its architectural peculiarities rather than 

 from its beauty. We did not arrive till about eight in the evening ; 

 and the best inns were filled with persons connected with the works 

 on the Bordeaux Railway ; so that I was obliged to put up with one 

 much inferior. My walk the next day was a very interesting one. 

 Crossing the little stream on the south of the town, I ascended, by 

 cultivated fields and woods adorning a rocky crest, to the general pla- 

 teau. Odontites Jaubertii is in the greatest abundance, and several 

 of the rarities of Fontainebleau and Normandy. I continued my walk 

 to some old quaiTies, which seem to have furnished both mill-stones 

 and building-stones here. Artemisia camphorata and Sideritis scordi- 

 oides, var. hyssopifolia, were in great profusion. The former is placed 

 with those Artemisiae which have a hairy receptacle ; but it is often a 

 matter of difficulty to find the hairs, which at best are few and weak, 

 and I believe not unfrequently quite deficient ; and in the majority of 

 plants of the latter the bracts were absolutely entire, instead of spi- 

 noso- dentate ; so that both the plants puzzled me. 



On the 20th I proceeded to Poitiei*s ; and, after spending one day 

 and half another in visiting the very interesting antiquities of that 

 city, I put myself under the guidance of Monsieur Malapert, and had 

 a very pleasant walk on the brow, and among the rocks and woods 

 which border the chain, but without much botanical success. This 

 was my last attempt. I proceeded, by the rail, to Paris, and in a few 

 days returned to England, in time for a parting view of the Great 

 Exhibition. — Yours truly, 



Joseph Woods. 



Priory Crescent, Lewes, Sussex. 



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