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with the beautiful Presqu’ile (where there is a good inn)—at Por- 
ll be seen such rarities as Genista linifolia L., several 
bushes of which also grow on a hill near Hyéres,* and Lathyrus 
tingitanus L., whose striking crimson flowers are almost as large as 
those of a sweet pea. It has also been recorded from Gibraltar, 
Malaga, Madeira, the Canary Isles, Morocco, and the Nilgiri Hills. 
reminds one more of Rumex buceph 
plant—and a litile Asplenium lanceolatum. Th Vaillantia we after- 
wards saw more of on a sea-wall near the pier, together with Sedum 
rubens Li, 
The only kind of gorse we noticed anywhere on the Medi- 
terranean or in the Alpes-Maritimes was a bush of Ulex parviflorus 
in a thicket close to the harbour of Porquerolles; and we believe 
no other species of Ulex ig found on the Mediterranean. Near this 
bush of gorse was a bramble, which Mr. Moyle Rogers has named 
_,. Mr E. G. Baker has since drawn my attention to a sheet of Genista 
pon var. leucocarpa Rodriguez, fro inorea, in Herb. Brit. Mus., with 
be my specimens both nee Porquerolles and the mainland see 
to agree, 
th: there seems to tle in the variet i a 
: e iety besides the colour of the pod, 
dere a distinetly white. Rodriguez speaks of “ gousse lanugineuse a ca 
a oa Acti of the variety in Bull. Soc. Bot. de France, xxv 
sores oo cones 
_coverte d’un tomentum brun,” and they gave Isles d’Hyéres as the habitat 
We know of no other locality for the variety leucocarpe va 
Minorea, where it is rare, - 
