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furze affords it, and cultivation has of late 
evidently been trespassing on its bounda- 
ries, and diminishing its quantity. Why 
it should have fixed itself there, and there 
alone, if an original native, or by what ac- 
cident it could have been introduced and 
disseminated, are problems which I cannot 
solve. The soil is a crumbling gneiss, or 
perhaps a sandy rock, with a slaty struc- 
ture, whose easy disintegration is shown in 
the deep sandy lanes along which we pass- 
ed in descending from the high road to the 
shore, Our further walk to Landerneau was 
enlivened by the fires lighted in honour 
of St. John’s Eve, on various elevated 
points. A large one was placed in the 
middle of the high road, about half a mile 
from Landerneau. We had been told of 
certain superstitious ceremonies attending 
these fires, but the only thing we saw 
which could possibly come under such a 
denomination, was the endeavour to touch 
the fire with the shoots of a plant, (I be- 
lieve of Sedum Telephium,) which are said 
to be afterwards preserved, but for what 
purpose our informant could not tell us. 
On the 24th we went to St. Pol de Léon 
(the Ligis of Duby). There is a pictu- 
resque fragment of a castle a little way 
from Landerneau, and at Landivisiau we 
again met with some curious costumes, the 
most striking difference being, perhaps, 
the dark chocolate colour of the whole 
dress, instead of the light blue and white 
of Briec. The belt is placed higher up, 
and the lower part of the cylindrical waist- 
coat divided into flaps. At St. Pol we saw 
nothing remarkable, though it is noted in 
the books as the place where the ancient 
Bréton manners are most preserved. We 
walked on the shore of the creek in the 
afternoon, and to Roscoffe on the point of 
the promontory, the next day. The whole 
sea is studded with pointed rocks, forming 
islands at low water, and some of them at 
high tide. Similar rocks crowned many of 
the little hills of the shore, and among these 
were some we might have fancied to be 
druidical monuments, if those at sea had 
not been so evidently of the same nature. 
There is a considerable extent of sand- 
ACCOUNT OF A BOTANICAL EXCURSION INTO BRITTANY. 
hills West of Roscoffe, and there we found 
Galum arenarium, Linaria arenaria, 
Carex extensa, and Festuca uniglumis. 
Our walks also yielded Medicago apicula- 
ta? Orobanche cerulea, Lamium dissec- 
tum, Papaver hybridum, Erodium mari- 
timum an . moschatum, T) rio 
Columne, Sibthorpia Europea, and Si- 
lene Gallica. 
On the 25th we came to Morlaix, and 
Erythrea, which appears not to have — 
been noticed. Its characteristics are the 
diffuse mode of growth without any indi- 
cation of a leading stem, and the few flow- 
ers, not above two or three in a panicle. 
This did not arise from late shoots, as the 
prickles of the Ulex among which it grew 
nor was it owing to that shelter, for some 
of it was in open and exposed situations. 
In all, the appearance was alike, and | 
fusa ;+ caulibus di iffusis-subbi ier 
The subulate divisions of the 
and sometimes considerably shorten RR 
a specimen of this species in the 4 
idee of Sir J. E. Saath, from the A : 
with a memorandum in the hand-writing 1 
Sir J. E., that it is the Chironia maritima — 
of the Hortus Kewensis, but not of Will- | 
denow ; the description of C. maritima in | 
that work is, however, by no means 
as would identify the pum and Ww prin- 
quite as long as the tube of M rd ; 
Herba- 
the 
unnoticed by all Botanists since 
è ; who described it very imi 
in the Suppl. under the name x: €— a^ gen : 
, and found by , 
"n of the Azores a dei pn f 
LI 5 3 seem l 
memorandum quoted by Mr. Woods) dot 
be aware that Masson's Azores e ghe grt 
scilloides of Linn. Suppl. Of te 
given to it by Mr. Woods is infinitely to PPT , 
and we intend shortly, with the perm 
coverer, to give a figure of the 
