84 Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill on 



Lusitania. — Matta de Rangel, April, 1883 ; coll. A. 

 Moller (Schulz, 1876). 

 Girez, June, 1888 ; coll. Rev. Richard Paget 



Murray. 

 Porto, May, 1891 ; Dr. O. Buchtien. 



Hispania. — Sierra de Palma, Andalusia; E. Reverchon, 

 1887. 



Corsica.- — Bonifacio, maquis de la Trinite, 29 May, 

 1880 ; Elisee Reverchon. 



Sardinia. — Maison Caree, March, 1879, et Birkadeus, 

 " in ericetis " ; A. Carriez. 



Mr. Richard Spruce, in an account of the Botany of 

 the Pyrenees, gives the following account of its growth 

 (Hooker, Journ. of Bot., Vol. V., p. 137) : " One of the 

 most interesting plants to me was the elegant Phalangium 

 bicolor, which was found in a heathy tract of ground 

 called the Landes of Pau, growing in company with 

 A vena A Ipina and A . Thorei. 



The desolate region known as the Landes, between 

 Bordeaux and Bayonne, is evidently the head-quarters 

 for the Simethis. Here the two species of Pinus Pinaster 

 Aiton, and maritima D.C., are both planted very exten- 

 sively, as at Bournemouth. The late Dr. W. Arnold 

 Bromfield, in the pages of the Phytologist, O.S., Vol. 

 III., pp. 888, 889 (1850), in the course of some remarks, 

 too long to quote in full here, points out that, at the 

 time he wrote, Bournemouth was a perfect pine forest, 

 the P. Pinaster seeding and sprouting vigorously, and he 

 also added that the locality was almost on the meridian 

 of the Landes. He notes the fact that the pines were 

 planted originally in this latter district for the purpose 

 of binding the loose sand of that very desolate region, 

 where the peasantry walk about on stilts, and that they 

 have since become naturalised there. 



The same author (Dr. Bromfield), in the same volume 

 of the Phytologist, p. 970, visiting the place where Miss 



