y 
bilicus. Anthriscus Cerefolium is very 
3 generally cultivated in gardens, and thence 
- escapes into the neighbouring hedges. I 
observed also Mespilus Germanica and 
_ Fumaria claviculata. 
- On the 11th I secured a place in a stage 
= for Granville, but got out at about half- 
way in order to botanize on the shore. 
. The walk proved long and tedious, through 
crooked lanes in a level country down to 
the sea, of which I had no view till I came 
close upon it. I just touched the point of 
a range of wooded sand-hills, extending 
North. e wood, however, has been 
planted at no distant period, and consists 
principally of the Black, with some inter- 
mixture of White Poplar. Towards Gran- 
ville it is still sandy, but flat, with an im- 
mense expanse, occasionally covered by 
the tide, Granville itself stands on a rocky 
promontory, and makes a good object. Fe- 
dia carinata and Stellaria grandiflora are 
agam very abundant. The sandy shore 
offers Schenus nigricans, Knappia agros- 
idea, Poa bulbosa, Elymus arenarius, (I 
believe, but at this season I could judge 
~~ by the foliage,)—Arenaria tenuifolia, 
a insig petrea, Turritis hirsuta, and 
Scorzonera angustifolia. There wasabund- 
ance of Trichostomum canescens in fruit. 
The tocks about Granville looked ve 
with Statice Armeri j ond 
ia, Silene maritima, 
and Sazifraga granulata. Borkhausia 
cot also oecurs on the hills. On the 
h I walked on the shore, adding nothing 
to the Botany of the former day, except 
"cago minima and the variety of C. 
— with scariose it (C. 
d LI FL Agen,) which, if not a va- 
E ES viscosum, is probably a species. 
te — are uniformly five ; the petals 
c an the calyx, and somewhat erose, 
E € irregular notch at the end. 
-— m o'clock I set off for Avranches, 
o. ÉL a considerable eminence, 
m ma most beautiful views on all 
ogy e next day proceeded to Ren- 
NS. á a close and nearly level coun- 
€ evening I visited the Botanic 
n, which I am sorry I cannot praise. 
plants have suffered a great deal from 
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the late frosts of this spring, which lasted 
even into May. I took a walk on the 14th. 
There are numerous footpaths through the 
meadows, and borders are generally left to 
the cultivated fields, so that it is not an 
unpleasant country for a stroll. “The plants 
were Lepidium Smithii, which is abundant 
throughout Brittany (I confess the South 
of Europe L. hirtum seems to me the same 
species, but this is indubitably the English 
plant), Hieracium dubium, Ginanthe peu- 
cedanifolia (the latter is very abundant 
about Rennes and Nantes, but does not 
extend to the extreme West; its roots are 
eaten), Sisymbrium Trio, and Fumaria 
capreolata. 
At five in the afternoon the diligence 
started for Nantes, where we arrived a lit- 
tle after six on the following morning. 
Nantes is a large city, but its foreign 
commerce is said to be leaving it, on ac- 
count of the increasing difficulties of the 
navigation of the Loire. Here I formed 
an acquaintance with two Botanists, Mr. 
Hectot, and Mr. J. Lloyd, a young Eng- 
lishman, who has not long made it his 
pursuit. By the advice of the former, the 
latter conducted me to the Baie de la Ver- 
rière, a boggy creek communicating with 
the River Erdre, itself a tributary to the 
Loire. The English Botanist would do 
well in such cases to ascertain what he may 
expect to find, otherwise he will be con- 
ducted to local rarities, which are likely to 
be common elsewhere, and this is especi- 
ally the case with the marshes and rich 
meadows to which the French Botanists 
are eager to take their English friends. In 
this case I knew that we might expect La- 
threa clandestina and Serapias cordigera, 
in our way to the Baie. The first was 
abundant at the foot of a row of Lombardy 
Pi creek, 
its flowers alone rising above the surface, 
but never in sufficient quantity 
me. I was therefore delighted to meet with 
it again. Serapias cordigera was on the 
border of some wet meadows at La Tertre. 
