596 REVIEWS. [July, 



Leontodon pyrenaicus, Carduus Personata, Carl'ma nebrodensis, 

 Picris pyrenaica, Sonchus alpinus, S. Plumieri, Crepis blatta- 

 rioides, Hieracium aurantiacum, H. alpinum, H. Mougeotii, H. 

 SchmidHi,H. albidum,H. cydoniaifol.,H. magistri,H.pr(£ruptorum, 

 H. auratum, Androsace carnea, Gentiana lutea, Myosotis alpestris, 

 Veronica saxatilis, Bartsia alpina, Pedicularis foliosa, Veratrum 

 Lobelianum, Allium Victorialis, Orchis globosa, O. cinerea, Limo- 

 dorum abortivum, Loroglossum hircinum, Cypripedium Calceolus, 

 Carex frigida, Botrychium matricarioides, B. rutaceum, Polysti- 

 chum Lonchitis, Asplenium germanicum, Pidmonaria tuberosa. 



Ex ungue leonem, — you may judge of the lion by his claw. The 

 above list, which might be doubled by adding more names of 

 rare plants, shows what influence a degree or two degrees of 

 latitude exerts on the vegetation of an extensive country. 



Something is probably owing to altitude as well as to a further 

 extension south, which gives Lorraine a richer flora than Ardenne. 

 Lorraine, as it existed formerly as a province, probably is more 

 extensive than its northern neighbour, and its elevation is greater. 

 Both Lorraine and the Vosges have higher points than the highest 

 in the province so well illustrated by M. Crepin. 



A sojourn in Ardenne, in Lorraine, or in the Vosges, in early 

 summer, viz. in the leafy month of June, would be to a botanist 

 a treat of no ordinary attractiveness. This season, 1863, we 

 should like to undertake this botanical tour next week (on the 

 18th May), and we would take as silent guides this tract of M. 

 Crepin's, a thin 8vo of 60 pages, and Dr. A. Godron's ^Geographie 

 botanique de la Lorraine.' 



This journey would not be quite so productive as a visit to the 

 Fountain of Vaucluse, celebrated in song by the greatest of 

 Italy's lyric poets, and quite as famous for its botanical rarities. 

 The hills of Ardenne and the mountains of Lorraine and the 

 Vosges are not so rich in rare alpines as Mont Ventoux, and 

 the central and high peaks, the loftiest of the Pyrenees ; but 

 the former would afibrd no ordinary gratification to one who rarely 

 sees anything higher than Primrose Hill, Hampstead Heath, or 

 Harrow, in Middlesex ; Hayes Common and Shooter's Hill in 

 Kent ; and in Essex, the hills of Brentwood and Epping Forest. 



