will find, it has no corolla; the flower* 
confiding of a calyx only, into which 
the fazftamina are inferted. 
Not far from us, I perceive another fcarce 
plant, of which my friend Relhan has given 
a plate and an accurate defcription, in his 
excellent Flora Gantabrigienfis* 1 mean that 
diminutive chap, about five inches high, with 
a yellow ftar-flower. It is the Cineraria al- 
pina, or Mountain Ragwort. There are 
fome doubts about the proper genus of this 
herb; but Linmeus has declared that it is a 
Proteus of a plant. It is of the Clafs and 
Order, Syngenefia Polygamla fuperflua. The . 
flowers, you obferve, grow in a loofe irre- 
gular kind of umbel, and the leaves on the 
ftem are lance-foaped, woolly, and very 
ereft. 
It is now time to defcend the Hills, 
jamfumma procul villarum culmlnafumanty 
Majorefque cadunt alth de montibus umbra* 
Our rout lies through Cherry Hinton, a 
village celebrated in the annals of Botany, 
by having been the fcene of our indefatiga- 
ble Ray's frequent herbarizationsj particu- 
larly in a field called the Chalk-fit cbfe> where 
Rel- 
