MAGAZINE 



ZOOLOGY AND BOTANY, 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



I. — Account of a Botanical Excursion in the Alps of the Canton ofVa- 

 lais, Switzerland, in August 1835 ; and Catalogue of the Plants col- 

 lected, with occasional Remarks. By R. J. Shuttleworth, Esq. 



The following account of a botanical excursion to one of the most 

 interesting parts of Switzerland, will be perhaps agreeable to some 

 of your readers, and will give a fair idea of the variety and profu- 

 sion of our Alpine vegetation. 



Although the weather was on the whole very unfavourable, and 

 prevented my exploring many points of peculiar interest to the bo- 

 tanist, the number of species I was enabled to collect was far 

 from inconsiderable, and after my return home, many of them on 

 examination proved to be particularly interesting, either from their 

 rarity or novelty, or from the specimens being in a state which en- 

 abled me to rectify several errors contained in their descriptions, 

 or to add remarks on characters hitherto passed over in silence. I 

 have consequently added a list of all the species I collected, with 

 such remarks as I imagine may prove useful ; and in order to ren- 

 der the Flora of the Gemmi more complete, I have incorporated the 

 results of a short excursion made thither a fortnight later in the 

 season this year. A few species from the neighbourhood of Zermatt 

 are added, which were contained in a small parcel of plants pur- 

 chased from a peasant, and which I was prevented from finding my- 

 self, either by the lateness of the season, or the unfavourable state 

 of the weather. These are distinguished by an asterisk, and those 

 of this year from the Gemmi by the date. 



I might easily have increased the list by more than a hundred 



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