FROM NICHOLAEF, 
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CHAP. 
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experienced all possible attention and civility. 
The Baron de Bar, and Count Heiden, administered 
to us every kindness it was in their power to 
bestow ; and we quitted Nicholaef full of gra- 
titude for acts of benignity, to which, if we 
except the hospitality of Professor Pallas, we 
had long been strangers. 
Our journey from Nicholaef to Odessa will be 
best seen by reference to any good map of 
the South of Russia ; geographical features being 
the only objects that occurred. The whole is 
a flat steppe, intersected by streams and by 
inlets of sea water l 2 , where we were con- 
veyed sometimes in boats, and sometimes over 
shallows, sitting in the carriage 1 . We noticed 
several remarkable salt lakes, and, by the last 
post-house before arriving at Odessa, an aggre- 
(1) See the interesting communication upon the subject of this 
watery district,in No.II. of the Appendix to the former Volume. 
(2) It was in this steppe that the author discovered a new species of 
Anchusa, which has been named The Rough Bristly Bugloss, Anchusa 
EXASPERATA, “ Anchusa exasperates, caule ramosissimo, hispido ; folds 
linearihus integerrimis , verrucoso-seligeris ; racemis terminalibtts, caly- 
cibus ciliatis, pedicellis brevistimis.” Some other plants were also added 
to his collection from these plains ; viz. Siberian Barberry , Berbcris 
Sibirica, this also grows near Cherson s Horned I’oppy, Oielidoniutn 
corniculatum ; Moldavian Balm, Dracocephalum Moldavicum ; Sea 
Holly, Eryngium marilimum ; Flea-wort, or Clammy Plantain, 
Planlago psyllium s and Prostrate Meadow-grass, Poa Eragrostis- 
The Lcontice Odessena is common to the neighbourhood of Odessa. 
