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118 MB. JOSEPH woods' IfOTES OF A BOTANICAL 



Pulicaria odora is pretty plentiful in one part ; Euphorbia dulcis 

 and Thesiuni pratense may be met with, and aI>aucmJ^^&t coming 

 into flower, which perhaps may be different from D. Carota. I 

 also observed an Ophrys with a short forward point like that of 

 O. arachnites, but it was entire, rather favouring the idea that this 

 is only a variety of O. apifera ; but I did not see any plant of 0. 



ifera, and 



June I went up to a villaere called Las Corales 



Eeinosa and 



Reinosa. On the 21st I was again 



i7al. On thft 25th T went to Alar, 



and on the Ist July returned to Santander. There is a railwaj 

 now in progress from Santander to Alar, whence perhaps it ma} 

 at some future neriod be continued to VaUadolid and to Madrid 



summit 



road to Valla 



thirty 



lies from S<eino3a to Alar, and at Pozazal (pronounced Pothathal) 

 e highest station attains an elevation of 3300 feet above the Bay 

 Biscay. Beinosa is forty-two miles from Santander, but it la 

 pected that the railway for the greater part of this distance will 



be completed in the autmnn 



another year. The present journey to Eeinosa is p 

 gences, passing through Torre la Vega, which will 

 by the railway. Torre la Vega is situated in a 



require 



mixtmre of trees, and sur 



varied forms 



rocky. 



called 



course of which we ascend through a narrow gorge to lias 



Caldas, a plac 



These nse 



sandstone 



makes its appearance, from imder 

 This limestone rises into moun- 

 tains of considerable elevation, forming the northern boundary of 

 the valley of Las Corales, in which the lower hills are mostly of a 

 loamy soil, attributed to the greensand. Las Caldas would be a 

 good botanical station for a few days, as these three soils would 

 each contribute some peculiar plants, the best being probably in 

 connexion with the limestone ; but my stay there was very short : 

 Nasturtium pyrenaicumy Sedwm dasyphyllvm, lAgnsticvM pyre- 

 tujdwmy Hrynyium Bourgatiy Galium sylvaticum, and Valantia his- 

 pida being my chief prizes, together vdth eeveral species found ip 

 England on the chalk and on the moiintain limestone. 



I was t\ffe^ or,fpw days at JLas Cotales— not, I think, a parti' 











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