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drive of three or four hours rags n keai nighe to 
of Lans le Bou 
Pa and on the 
2000 and 3000 feet into the deep ditch-like 
meen the Maurienne, and on to the ve 
roofs of 
le Bourg, overhung on the opposite side by the 
| =: capped summits of the Dent Parassée, and the 
een 13, feet high, 
and feet above where I d, the view to the 
he tout ensemble is charming. Soon 
after reaching the top of the Pas k down ona 
estone, 
aoe tolerable 
ees its 
an colour. The urrounding p 
lake are of a ih pint brown seared by ‘‘ the 
mellowing year,” and bright with patches of Saxi- 
izoides, and a band of fresh emerald- 
of several hundred acres of white saccharoid lime 
gone overhanging the lake has been p ated with 
of ‘‘pot-holes” due to th ual disso- 
lution of the limestone by watery perco olation. Some o 
these are 30 P, they are in mack close juxta- 
position that ‘the whole terrace has been wrought into 
an intricate networ vironin 
long and 
On the o opposite side of the lake the brown moun- 
hins shut in the view, the Petit Mont Cenis to the 
‘ght, and Mont d’Ambin to the left, their picturesque 
| mtlines developed by a fresh sprinkling of autumnal 
wi “he and see + in the more distant ranges over the 
mplete list tl the plants of Mont Cenis would 
| proportion of the 
my gatherings. 7 
plateau of Mont Cenis at the time of 
it iù September was bespangled cy the beautiful 
blue ere of Gentiana ciliata a e miniature 
Colchicum alpinum ; rimula firinda covers 
moist meadows surrounding the lake, and amongst 
alpine a on the plateau level 
alpestre, and another species o 
(on the limestone terrace above the 
: errugineum, pina, 
talictrum aquilegifolium, Convallaria verticillata, 
7 Sepa an st of other alpine 
any 1 Saxifrages 
ifr tay cesia, which 
ions 0 T y its S 
white Ta the one rocks o 
mpany with it ve Sonia ithe 
n 
ko the lovely little Sax 
ith its neat little cu 
em . 
7 its hard crusty masses of rosettes. ‘This 
mited to a small district in the western 
pery Py allied to Saxi- 
and. ga an Piparra of 
ws 
; of a small glacier, on the m 
east of the lake. This species, I believe never 
height of 
occurs exc +h h P melt 
ing snow, sich will ayr account for the extreme 
difficulty in keeping it alive under cultivation. Asso- 
ciated wit 
or character of foliage or appendages. nother 
charming little plant, panmi distributed over the 
Mont Cenis range, is ocallis pyrenaica, a draboi 
plant, with delicate rosy ie flowers s 
aind ilie of brig 
autiful Primula 
edemontana grows abundantly ; in habit it resembles 
a miniature Auricula, with large vivi rosy flowers 
with å white e e is i i 
species to cultivate, and a very free bloomer. The 
geographical range Fot this s mer ras very limited, 
as it is nowhere found in Alps, and does 
not coe southwards to the “Maritim me Alps.’ 
eglectus is waa! e alpine, abund- 
by distributed a ee sd org: i Ee and 
iné mountain the elem 
can be more lovely chi ‘hes patches of ‘this pigm 
Pink, covered with its beautiful crimson flowers. 
poen es more local plan i 
ea railing neat Hitle h beads 
of dull yellow flowers 3 or es high. Scattered 
about the gery sre overhanging the ol du Clapier, 
at an altitude o o 10 apd "s ah se po 
r ground, a conspicuous 
by its bright satches ot ca blue Tona, contrast- 
ing beautifully with the gem-like cushions of the rosy 
Androsace glacialis, with which it is intermix 
ere also occurs is alpina, and silvery white 
patches of Artemisia Apron Artemisia mutellina, 
and Senecio incanus eronica alpina, V. 
fruticulosa, V. Allionii, We “bellidioides, be tenella, 
Sedum atratum, Gentiana nivalis, G. chyphylla, 
Astragalis aristatus, Alchemilla Senp jiii, A. sub- 
sericea, Astrantia minor, Silene rupestris, Alsine 
verna, À. aon soy sphzerocephalum, Potentilla 
pedemontana, Arnica montana, severa yteumas, 
y preamen albifrone, Achillea moschata and A. nana, 
an ie carnea, A, s artie viae; San 
| sotis a Ipest ris, Erysimum | pumilum ie 
be’ mach SeN bi as my: 
ramble included a visit to the Maritime eap 
which I te make some reference, I will bid adieu 
to Mont Cen 
After four TE stay on the plateau, I priam m the 
Italian side of the Pass to Susa, by a continuous 
bo feet round the spurs of 
the Mont Cenis range into the valley of Susa, a ho 
was the grea 
leave the alpine flora behind me, and soon find myself 
hards, 
Looking from Turin to the west, the alpine range 
of Savoy is seen to make a bend to the south-wes 
returning in an mara id direction orfe the Medi 
ringed a great bay = pe plain 
ranean coast, and en 
of Northern Italy, which runs up as a dead level to 
the very foot of the mountain chain. I eo ‘this i ip 
about three hours A the line from Turin n to Cuneo, 
the Maritime Alps. wig onte 
12,643 feet high, is seen to the mores Ri from 
main chain branches out to the south in pictur- 
esque outline to a height o o nearl 
000 feet, for the most part a single ridge, with 
lateral spurs enlosing narrow valleys. A drive = e 
rs takes me to Valdieré and the village of 
raque 
side of 1 the aeai, which I made my headquarte 
here is, perhaps, no no of the Alps 
ic 
tif 
be confi com: pone = pam most 
part, wretc poor, but fair 
ne to the end of y Bams m the B Baths 
btained from Ju 
of Valdieré, emar aE t the head of one of the principal 
s also a tolerable inn at Limone— 
al 
chan om that of Mont Cenis is very 
striking. Quite one-fourth of the species are new to 
me, and many o are uliar tothe A : 
a Soon after leaving Cuneo wig folion 
little plant with intensely blue Forgetsme-not-like 
of the genus. I 
Al haliniialion = 
mestone ween Bourg St. D 
Valdieré, which a covered with the beantifal 
e roc 
feathe of snow-white flowers. Aster 
Amellus is abundant on the rocks between Vernante 
and one, Dentaria digitata and D. pinnata 
are conspicuous and beautiful with their — 
foliage and ges on a ite flowers. 
Anothe ing plant is Streptopus distortus (or 
Uvularia aunplesiions). “allied to Convallaria, which I 
found in the Valle dell’ Anmellina near Li 
Primu 
apond A 
aces 
e rocks are completely covered with the handvomg 
rosettes of its silver-fringed leaves, Primu 
All. (P. latifolia, Lap.), P. sua 
farinosa, are also. ab #9 ; ‘but P. pedemontana 
so common on Mont Cenis, i is not to be found in this 
region, 
alpine meadows in June are richly enamelled 
with the white and red forms of Orchis sambucina in- 
termixed with Corydalis e and rose 
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and round leaves 
makes vigorous tufts of bright green rosettes in the 
midst of a great mass pi ape leaves, ae frenn nant of 
many years’ growth, only found n 
line, and is difficult to Sauva But by hic the most 
tenting piat of this Pay is rr florulenta, 
mited ar he Maritime Alps, and 
ring Ra ere of the said 
discovered in the year I by an | 
Moret retti, of Pavia, He published a short description 
of the plant at the time, after which it was vainly 
n discovered 
region, where, at an altitude of from 7500 
to 9000 feet, it seems to be far from unfrequent ; but 
all the habitats „are within a radius of 4 or 5 miles of 
isco 
pers | mare under the projecting rid Out of 
dred plants I found but one in flower, from 
n 
ing, and then die, faling into the snow-fields at the 
foot of the sits, where, judging from the I 
must remain undecayed for 
asa ona 
in ight: Its 
but it i so unlike any ‘sare i 
of five styles pels, it is pn to 
sence whether it should ‘t be placed in a 
us, 
After several days’ gg yea ad the many beau- 
tiful niles. intersecting the northern side of the 
wate the Maritime Aloe} to 
Entraque, and following the main r neo t 
ice, crossed the Colle de Tenda at a height of 6158 
feet. From this point a ificent view is obtain 
To the north I look down on the great western 
of the north Italian plain, bounded by the _ the 
complete pra of which, 
is visible in the 
west, the fine chain of mountains forming its water- 
ed rise in picturesque pore and to the south 
is over a CO ks, and catch at 
balpine species enam 
other su ed 
in early June. Genista cinerea is also abundant, and 
