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have finished our rapid travels in company, if so it should 

 happen, to give a slight sketch of the statistics of each coun- 

 try passed over, so far as they are applicable to the general 

 subject of this Magazine, in which such vacancies can be 

 supplied. 



Having arrived at Geneva, I shall, before proceeding 

 fardier, give the following list of such plants as I observed 

 by the wayside, on the road from Paris to that city, by Dijon, 

 &c. Most of them I was enabled to collect specimens of by 

 walking up the hills ; which may always be done provided the 

 traveller takes his place on the outside, or in the coup^e^ and 

 secures the good offices of the conducteur by a small gra- 

 tuity. Some of the plants, however, I cannot be absolutely 

 certain of, as far as regards species, having only seen them 

 from the diligence ; and plants are not things that " he who 

 runs may read." 



Santollna incana, Tussilago alpina, Cacalia alpina, /Acanthus 

 mollis ; Allium, two or three species, not in flower ; Gladiolus 

 communis; Z-athyrus tuberosus, also seen in cultivation for 

 its large and esculent tubers; iSpartium Junceum ; 5'edum, 

 many species, particularly /^nacampseros and villosum ; 

 Sempervivum arachnoideum, ^'nthemis Pyrethrum, Melissa 

 officinalis, Campanula grandiflora [Piatycodon^. Dec. grandi- 

 fl6rum A. JDec.% C. Speculum [Specularia A. Dec. Specu- 

 lum A. Dcc\ and another species, which I could not recog- 

 nise; Dianthusbarbatus, i?hododendronferrugineum (on Jura), 

 Nigella arvensis, Z/athyrus pratensis, Achillea Millefolium, 

 ikfedicago lupulina (very common), Cichorium /'ntybus, 

 ^conitum Napellus, Adonis vernalis, ^Bryonia alba, Juniperus 

 Sabina, J. Oxycedrus, Clematis Viorna, Irif'olium repens, 

 Plantago lanceolata. 



There was also occasionally, but rarely, a plant which I 

 took for an £^chium, but of which I was unable to collect a 

 specimen. 



Such are a few of the plants from the immense flora of 

 France ; which are not given as a complete list of those to be 

 found between Paris and Geneva, but merely to show the 

 young gardener that some botanical knowledge may be 

 snatched up even while whirling along on the diligence. 



We now return to Geneva. The ground on which the 

 town is built is hilly, which makes most of the streets tortu- 

 ous and penible [tiring]. The houses are high, from five to 

 six stories in general, and are not unfrequently deformed 

 by shed roof arcades, supported by clumsy wooden posts, 

 which reach to the top of the house; most of the streets are 

 rather narrow ; the pavement, however, is good. 



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