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Good., and C. paniculate L. Clovers were represented by T./rcKji- 

 ferum L. and T. resupinatum L. Other noticeable plants were 

 Malcomia litorea Br., abundant; Anagallis lini/olia L., also common. 

 This is one of the most beautiful plants I have ever seen, and might 

 well be introduced into gardens ; the flowers, which are much 

 larger than those of our English pimpernel and of an intense blue, 

 being produced freely. Sedum armarium Br. was plentiful in pure 

 sand in one pine wood : it is a tiny annual, very slightly or not at 

 all branched, and it is hard to imagine it to be only a form of our 

 familiar S. anglicum Huds. Chrysanthemum Myconis L. here replaces 

 our "corn marigold," and is accompanied by another plant, Lepido- 

 phorum repandum DC, from which it can hardly be distinguished, 

 except by the absence of scales on the receptacle and by the 

 different shape of the seeds. Erie* umbellate L. is common quite 

 close to the coast, but is much dwarfed in comparison with its 

 appearance even a few miles inland. Cistinem were less numerous 

 than I had expected to find them, Cistus salvifolius being the so!e 

 representative of its genus ; while of Hebianthemum I could only fin 1 

 //. (futtatum Mill, and //. Tuberaria Mill. Other coast-plants were 

 Euditnitlia lata FzL, Siiene portemis L. and S. litorea Brot., Linum 

 avymti folium Huds., Lfivalera sylvestrk Brot., Lythrum acutanynhnn 



Lej., Paronychia arymtea Lam., Or menu mixta 1)C. (very common), 

 Diotis candidissima Dsf., Saliva lusitanica Lees, Cirsium filipendiilum 



Lge., Tolpis barbata G., Krythraa maritima P., Verbascwn sinwttiwi 



L., Scrophidaria frulescens L., Crucianella maritima L., Genista tri- 

 aeanthm Brot., and many others, including the lovely Pancratium 

 nut rit imam L., which was just coming into flower on July 1st. The 

 ovaries of this plant are much infested by a large brightly-coloured 

 lepidopterous larva. I was unaware of this when I collected the 

 plants, but on my return to England towards the end of the month 

 I found a considerable number among my papers. I endeavoured 

 to rear some in order to determine the species, but they all escaped, 

 having very quickly gnawed through the box in which I had placed 

 them. In one spot I gathered a few small specimens of LaureiiM 

 tenella DC, looking like a miniature Lobelia urens, to which it is 

 closely allied. 



Six weeks later I spent a few hours at Esmorig, which produce 1 

 ft few interesting plants, but the ground was difficult to work, much 

 of it consisting of drifting sand, exposed to the full heat of the sun. 

 ♦Some marshy fields near the station produced some interesting 

 Cyptrcwea, viz., Scirpm Tabemmmontani G-., 6'. pungent Yahl, & 

 mucronatm L., and Eleockaris aciculaiis Br.; while Holotchann* 

 ralaarin Lk. and Sehcenus mucronatu* L. grew in patches on the mo. 

 Under the pines Cor etna album D. Don grew in profusion, conspicuous 

 by its white berries. Other plants of this neighbourhood were 

 Drosera intermedia Hay, Potamoyetmi nutans L., Alisma Plant** **•» 

 and A, ranimcuhjides L.; while hedgerows were full of myrtle ana 

 of Horn mnpemirem L., with occasional clumps of Knphorbn 

 pubrscens Valil. Myrtle I found to be very plentiful in all kinds ol 

 situations in the warmer parts of Northern Portugal, such as hedge- 

 rows, river- banks, and waste place- ; it has all the appearance oi a 



