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calyx are elliptical, and much larger than the others. Your 

 attention will hardly be drawn to this tiny gentian among 

 the crowd of more beautiful and attractive plants blooming 

 around it. 



One excursion which you should not fail to make is the 

 ascent of the Dent de Jaman, the hieroglyphic summit of 

 one of those charming mountains which mirror themselves in 

 the Lake of Geneva. This classical, and, moreover, very 

 easy ascent, has the advantage of carrying you up a series 

 of terraces, so that the character of the vegetation changes 

 rapidly. The acclivity begins at the little town of Montreux, 

 situated near the point where the blue arrowy Rhone pours 

 its waters into the enchanted lake. From Montreux to the 

 village of Glion, you will be delighted to greet your old 

 acquaintances : the familiar faces of your native fields, mea- 

 dows, and woodlands. But soon a difference in the character 

 of the flora forces itself upon you. Species which are rarer at 

 home become tolerably common, as, for instance, the yellow 

 digitalis (Digitalis lutea), so easily recognised by its cymes of 

 tiny flowers. The vulneraria (Ant hy His vulnerarid) is as widely 

 diffused as the trefoil in our English pastures. 



A little above Glion, a picturesque village apparently hung 

 over the lake the sub-alpine region commences. Around 

 villas and mansions, nearly all inhabited by English families, 

 you will find in abundance the English mercury (Chenopodium 

 Bonus Henricus\ and in the shady hedges the narcotic Herb- 

 Paris (Paris quadrifolid). 



