where we arrived at midnight. The valley 
on the side of which this town is placed, 
is rocky and romantic. Lotus hispidus 
and Linaria striata grow on the rocky 
slopes. We took a cabriolet to Carnac, 
which is three leagues distant, but over so 
bad a road, that it required three hours to 
go there. The stones at Carnac are dis- 
posed in nine rows, with some additional 
stones, which in places, seem to indicate the 
existence of a tenth row. In the part which 
we first visited, I thought the rows straight ; 
but on a more extended view, this did not 
appear to be the case. At the West end 
s a great rock lying flat, which might be 
supposed to have been an altar. It lies in 
one of the openings between the rows which 
in that part seems rather wider than the 
others, but it is not a central one. There 
Is no appearance any where of a circular 
disposition of the stones. We saw one 
cromlech and there is a large upright stone 
could not quite make up our minds 
whether it is natural or artificial; but we 
rather inclined to the latter opinion, since, 
as far as we could see, the whole appeared 
to be a heap of loose stones. 
ground is sometimes rocky and sometimes 
boggy with occasional small pools), Sper- 
gula pentandra, Alisma natans (very 
e^ Juncus pygmeus, J. Tenageja, 
Silene Anglica, Vicia angustifolia, with 
many flowers, Sium repens, Verbascum 
virgatum (blattarioides of Duby). Both 
De Candolle and Desvaux are inclined to 
ut im latter as a variety of V. Blat- 
wi eg : 
iiy, eae "i appears to me impos- 
On the shore were Dianthus Gallicus, 
E arenaria, Festuca sabulicola, 
Her arenarium, Köhleria cristata, and 
mana glabra. 
" oo we went to L’Orient. There 
Ne. ech on the road not far from 
ebon. This town seems particularly 
I cannot say the same for L'O- 
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rient, but the Hotel de France is a very 
good inn, and one at which a traveller may 
well pass a day or two, to complete his 
notes and take care of his collections. 
On the 11th, in spite of a wet morning, 
we went to Port Louis. Our papers were 
demanded at the extremity of this little 
town, and we were then required to show 
ourselves to the Captain of the Guard, and 
finally to the Commandant of the place. 
Afterwards, at the little hamlet of Gave, 
our papers were again to be exhibited, and 
again on re-passing Port Louis to return 
to L’Orient. The demand is so frequent, 
that it is not safe for a person to go out and 
take a walk without a passport in his pocket. 
It seems in general to be considered as a 
mere measure of finance, a sort of export 
duty on every person leaving his home, 
but in this instance the farce was carried 
further than usual. Besides all the plants 
which we had found on the shore at Car- 
nac, we gathered here Silene conica, S. 
Otites, with a shortened panicle (probably 
a near approach to the var. umbellatum of 
Duby), Linum angustifolium, Euphorbia 
Portlandica, Ephedra distachya, Statice 
spathulata, Medicago striata?  Cheiran- 
thus sinuatus, Trichonema Bulbocodium, 
Triticum Nardus, Orobanche caryophyl- 
lacea, Festuca uniglumis, and Ti "um 
inophyllum. 
On the 12th we sauntered in the neigh- 
bourhood of L'Orient, and observed Pha- 
langium bicolor, Erica ciliaris (the latter 
without any indications of flowering), Jun- 
cus pygmeus, Antirrhinum Pelesserianum, 
Pinguicula Lusitanica, a pink-coloured 
variety of Anagallis arvensis, and Lobelia 
urens not in flower. Pinguicula Lusita- 
nica is perhaps the best example of a west- 
ern plant, since it is said to be found at 
Tangiers, and extends through a great va- 
riety of climate to Cape Wrath ; while its 
most easterly position is, I believe, in 
Hampshire. Lobelia urens occupies by 
no means the same extent from North to 
South, and reaches further to the East than 
the Pinguicula in the South of France. I 
do not know whether this or the Scilla 
verna is most limited in the range of its 
