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Hyoscyamus nigcr. Stacliys hirta. Euphorbia serrata. 



Veronica Teucrium. Lamium maculatum. Euphorbia Cyparissias. 



Vex'onica serpylUfolia. Sideritis scordioides. Orchis mascuhi. 



Rhinaiitbus glabcr. Globularia nana. Bromus tectorum. 



Scrophularia canina. Armeria plantagiuea. 



Mentha sylvestris. Buxus sempervirens. 



At the foot of the ascent to the lofty pass (the Col de Puy- 

 maurin) we eucounterecl in profusion four of the most interest- 

 ing plants we had yet seen ; the tall Anemone alpina, with its 

 great flowers, of the sulphur-coloured variety (which I have found 

 the commonest both in the Alps and Pyrenees) ; the mountain 

 Umbellifer [Meum athamanticum) , a plant rare in the English 

 mountains, common in the Pyrenees and Cevennes ; Orchis sam- 

 bucina, with its great spikes of flowers, both purple and yellow ; 

 and the delicately beautiful Tidipa Celsiana, also a plant of the 

 Cevennes. As we wound our way up the face of the mountain 

 towards the Col, we came among decidedly Alpine plants ; the three 

 Gentians which light up the lofty pastures with their dark blue 

 flowers, G. acaulis and verna, known to all Alpine explorers ; G. 

 j)yrenaica, peculiar to the Eastern Pyrenees ; the small white- 

 flowered Ranunculus jjyrenaicus, the lovely Hepatica, Crocus ver- 

 mis, and a pink Anch'osace, common on the Pyrenean summits, 

 long confounded with A. cornea of the Alps, but to be described, 

 as I am told, in the Supplement to the ' Flore de France,^ under 

 the name of A. Lagerii. One plant, though I did not see it till 

 just on the French side of the pass, I cannot help mentioning, 

 and with this I close my list: that exquisitely .fringed and 

 strangely coloured plant, one of the most delicate of Alpine 

 vegetable products, the plant so much admired by Mr. Ruskin, 

 Soldanella alpina. From this place a long and gradual descent 

 brought us into the beautiful valley of the Ariege; aud being 

 now in a country well explored, and possessed of excellent Floras, 

 I at last end this long memorandum, and finally take my leave. 



Maianthemum bifoliura in Caen Wood, Hampstead, June, 1861. 



To the Editor of the ' Thjtolorjht: 



It is now many years — above thirty — since T first had the good 

 hap to discover this rare gem of Flora's diadem among the 

 Beeches on that side of Caen Wood which is between Highgate 



