. the plants of Brittany than any one I had 
met with since leaving Nantes. He con- 
. ducted me to a bog at Bodonou, the only 
station in the country for Myrica Gale ; 
but I was not very well, and hardly thought 
my botanical success in finding the 
“ Scented Myrtle of the bog," 
which is so common at home, a sufficient 
recompence for a walk of thirteen or four- 
teen miles. The plants were Verbascum 
virgatum, Erodium maritimum, Briza 
minor, Tormentilla reptans, and Lobelia 
urens, near Brest; Jsnardia palustris, Il- 
— lecebrum verticillatum, Cladium Maris- 
. eus, Ranunculus tripartitus, and Pilularia 
globulifera in the bog. A pleasanter walk, 
and more interesting Botany, we had found 
the day before, along the shore of this 
beautiful and magnificent gulf. 
The harbour of Brest passes entirely 
through the town, dividing it into two 
parts, without any connecting bridge; we 
passed it by a ferry, and ascending à fine 
open spot beyond the walls obtained a 
glorious view of the fine expanse of wa- 
3 ter and the varied hills which bound it, 
: and shortly descended to a road along its 
. "5s. We observed abundance of Lotus 
hispidus and angustissimus, two plants 
Which appear to me perfectly distinct, 
though apparently confounded by some of 
bes English Botanists. The latter is the 
one described in the English Flora, and 
has been gathered at Hastings, and in De- 
 Yonshire; but the specimens which I have 
myself found in that county belong to L. 
hispidus. This name is bad, since the 
18 not hispid, but clothed with soft 
i L. pilosissimus of Poiret I do not 
oa. it would seem to be in some 
differen intermediate. The only tangible 
"ir E in the description between this 
4, ^ !spidus, consists in the Legumi- 
$ compressis punctatis of the latter, as 
opposed to the Leguminibus subteretibus 
of hes former. Yet the epithet 
aes oes not seem to be correctly 
"Pposed to glaber, and subteres cannot be 
E different, one would suppose, from 
- De Candolle does not appear 
Vin 
ACCOUNT OF A BOTANICAL EXCURSION INTO BRITTANY. 
to have seen the plant in any state, and 
suspects, probably with justice, that it is 
only a variety of L. hispidus. "The other 
plants were Silene Gallica, Linum an- 
gustifolium, Ornithopus ebracteatus, Poly- 
carpon tetraphyllum, Gnaphalium Galli- 
cum, Bartsia viscosa, Trichonema Colum- 
ne, Juncus capitatus, Cynosurus echina- 
tus, and Lolium multiflorum. Scilla verna, 
as we afterwards learned, grows at the top 
of the bank which slopes down to the water's 
edge, but we did not observe it. 
On the 22nd we engaged a cabriolet to 
Le Conquet, a wild and rugged shore ; but 
the opposite point of the bay, which I con- 
clude from the map to be near Camaret, 
seemed much more so, and would be worth 
a visit. There are, on this western extre- 
mity of France, considerable remains of a 
large church, which add greatly to the pic- 
turesque effect of the scene. The plants 
were Daucus hispidus (probably, but it is 
almost impossible to determine the species 
of this genus), Galium arenarium, with 
white flowers, which, however, become 
yellowish in drying, and Linum angusti- 
folium, with purple flowers, Inula crith- 
moides, Frankenia levis, Salsola fruticosa, 
Trichonema Columne, and a variety of 
Thrincia hirta, with a hairy scape and 
calyx. This is what Desvaux considers 
as the 7. Aispida of De Candolle; but it 
wants the most important part of the cha- 
racter of that species, a calyx without any 
outer scales. The next day we proceeded 
in the diligence to Landerneau, getting out 
by the way about two leagues (called one 
league) from the latter place, to look for 
Cistus hirsutus near the village of Pontar- 
velin. This is an interesting locality, as 
there is no other true Cistus so far North ; 
the Cistus salviefolius, which makes the 
nearest approach, producing its last speci- 
mens not far from Saintes: then, again, 
this is a Spanish plant, not elsewhere found 
in France : it grows abundantly among the 
furze, in fields immediately above the 
branch of Brest harbour, between Pontar- 
velin and Landerneau, extending for about 
a quarter of a mile along the shore, seem- 
ing to require the protection which the 
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