i I 
L'Orient, a 
was much disappointed in finding, not only 
that there was no diligence thence to Quim- 
.. perté, but that there was no carriage in the 
place which I could hire, nor means of 
sending my luggage, had I walked or rid- 
den on horseback. The inn was dirty, and 
the people very careless. My first walk 
was along the shore northward, where no- 
thing occurred but what grows every where 
on the southern coast of Brittany, ex- 
| cept Allium spherocephalum ; but I was 
struck with the close neighbourhood of 
Osmunda regalis, and Asplenium mari- 
num. Cynodon Dactylon showed here 
some blighted spikes. The next excursion 
was across the Ferry to the southward, 
where I observed, in addition, Corrigiola 
littoralis, Illecebrum verticillatum, Eu- 
White flowers), Plantago lanceolata (villo- 
sissima), Asphodelus albus, Brachypodi- 
um pinnatum, Inula pulicaria, Juncus 
Tenageya, Littorella lacustris, Eracum 
rme, Erica ciliaris (in flower for the 
first time), Z A 
» Lythrum hyssopifolium, and 
Bupleurum Odontites. 
On the 6th I returned to Quimper, and 
walked to a bog four miles distant, which 
E noticed on the road. Appearances 
S promising, but the only rare plant 
"M Utricularia minor. The others were 
llecebrum verticillatum, Utricularia vul- 
Se Osmunda regalis in very great 
id ES Carex ampullacea, Veronica 
ry ta, and Galeopsis versicolor. 
io I again returned to the Her- 
scie oo capti The packet 
sm is time contained Syngenesia 
si = Rubiacee, Dipsacee, Vale- 
a as Caprifolie. Very few of 
ies, * cpi of Brittany, and the only 
| | Es tained was on a specimen 
emp nthemis mixta, but which ap- 
© me to be A. Cota, “ dans le 
Ve A 
erger prés le temple des faux Dieuz ;" 
most of the sam 
; ples were in very bad con- 
n the evening I proceeded to 
ving there at two in the 
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On the 8th I walked to some landes on 
the shore of a creek, where I had before 
botanized with Janson. Erica ciliaris and 
Lobelia urens are now in flower, and Ez- 
acum filiforme has sprung up in the wet 
places; Scirpus Savit, Statice spathula- 
ta, and a var. of S. Limonium,—a small- 
flowered variety of E. Centaurium was 
also abundant. 
On the 9th I went again to Port Louis, 
adding to the plants formerly observed 
there, Gnaphalium Stechas, Polypogon 
Monspeliense, Allium spherocephalum 
(not sufficiently advanced on the former 
occasion to be identified), Triglochin Bar- 
reliert and Salsola fruticosa, Salicornia 
radicans and fruticosa, Thesium linophyl- 
lum, Rottbollia incurva, and Bupleurum 
Odontites. 
he next evening I set off in the dili- 
gence to Plélau, on the road to Rennes, 
and had for my only companion in the 
coupé a talkative Bréton noble, who was 
going to Rennes on some law business, 
and cited to me a French proverb, “ qui a 
terre, a guerre," which seems to indicate 
that the intricacies of title-deeds are as 
great in France as in England. This gen- 
tleman gave me a sort of history of his 
life. He had entered into the army under 
Louis XVI, and afterwards, if I understood 
him right, had endeavoured to support the 
royal cause in the Vendeé. At a later pe- 
riod he was Colonel of Cavalry in the army 
of Napoléon, and held the same rank under 
the restored Bourbons; but neither the 
one nor the other were so sensible of his 
merit as they ought to have been. He 
told me that circumstances had induced 
him to sell several of his farms, the tenants 
having almost always been the purchasers. 
He was very strenuous for the excellence 
of the Bréton language, which he identi- 
fied with that of the Celts, and considered 
as one of the three original languages, 
whence all others have been derived. 
« Ehrenbreitstein," for instance, which 
ignorant people have translated “the broad 
stone of honour," mposed of four 
is co 
Bréton words, meaning “ the road of war 
is here closed." 
