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ACCOUNT OF A BOTANICAL 
cipal reason for supposing it to be intended 
for the same is, that it is stated to have 
been introduced from the Azores by F. 
Masson. The flowers are red. 
My friend and companion left me at Mor- 
laix, but I returned westward, thinking that 
Thad not yet done justice to Brittany. On 
the 27th I walked about Landerneau, wher 
I gathered Carer biligularis, Fumaria 
claviculata, Tormentilla reptans, and Hy- 
menophyllum Tonbridgense, all nearly 
close to the town. The views up the val- 
ley of the little river on which the town 
stands are very pleasant, but the finest are 
towards the harbour of Brest. 
On the 24th I went to Plougastel, which, 
from the guide-books, and the information 
I had obtained concerning the nature of 
the rock, I fondly imagined to be a Bréton 
Cheddar. I found the limestone to consist 
of afew small beds, subordinate to the 
slaty rock, which did not give birth to a 
single characteristic plant, and the rocks 
had some bold crests, which had formed a 
fine object from the opposite shore of Pont- 
arvelin, but were not worth a visit on their 
own account. The views from hereabouts 
over Brest harbour are glorious and highly 
varied. We walked in many places through 
extensive fields of strawberries, and there 
is in the church-yard, perhaps, the most 
"urious cross in Brittany. The basement 
‘adorned with two stories of figures sculp- 
tured in granite, representing the principal 
events of our Saviour’s life. These are 
the real objects of curiosity at Plougastel. 
à fig Landerneau to Plougastel 
i ir. es I could not say there were 
, rut implies a comparatively even 
Prod 9n which it may be traced, but 
oci i deep tracks worn among the 
M pim occasionally the mark of a wheel. 
Y driver had the prudence to get out and 
“at his horse at all difficult places, but on 
a when we were in a better road 
ii anderneau, he overturned me. I 
s cm a few trifling bruises; but his 
E he had requested permission 
Put mto the cabriolet, in order that she 
dd e à child at nurse, suffered more 
Y. However, he introduced me to 
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her bedside next morning, and there seem- 
ed to be no apprehension of any serious 
evil. The rarest plants of the day were 
Salicornia radicans, Lobelia urens, Heli- 
anthemum guttatum, Scrophularia Sco- 
rodonia, Mentha rotundifolia, and Gale- 
opsis versicolor. 
On the 29th I returned in the diligence 
to Quimper. As a large portion of those 
who make use of a French diligence are 
commercial travellers, who want to stop at 
a great many towns, one who has taken the 
precaution to be early on the list, will be 
rarely disappointed of a place. The road 
lies high, but has to cross some very deep 
valleys, of which the descents are very 
steep. At Le Faon I observed a wooded 
range of hills, at a short distance, which I 
thought I could have explored with plea- 
sure, but at Chateaulin the ground is more 
broken and varied, and the hills higher and 
wilder, and altogether this spot would, I 
think, have been well worth a day or two. 
On a former occasion I had passed it in 
the dark, and saw nothing. 
On the 30th I walked down the left bank 
of the river at Quimper, observing Oxalis 
stricta, Sagina maritima, Campanula 
Rapunculus, and Poa procumbens. The 
Crepis begins now to form its seeds, and 
consequently to deserve the attention of a 
person who is obliged to confess that he 
does not know the species. All that I find 
here seem to be the C. virens of De Can- 
dolle, which, as the character is given in 
Duby, might well include both C. diffusa 
and C. stricta ; “foliis lanceolato-runci- 
nalis," is an expression of Linneus. It 
however conveys to me no distinct idea, 
and I hardly know whether to consider it 
as equivalent to “ foliis lanceolatis runci- 
natis. This is opposed to the ''folus 
remote dentatis sinuatis runcinalisve," of 
C. diffusa, and the folus runcinato-pin- 
natifidis of C. stricta—other difference 
there seems to be none, and a person ac- 
customed to observe the great variety of 
the leaves in what we usually in Englan 
call Crepis tectorum, will not, perhaps, at- 
tach any great importance to such charac- 
ters. C. diffusa and C. stricta differ from 
