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of the leaves and stem are feathery. As far as I have seen, it is 

 one-flowered, very villous, vrith one or two very small leaves on 

 the stem. Root-leaves broadly oval, attenuated sometimes rather 



abruptly 



even in the multitudinous species of Grenier. 



cannot find a plac 



three 



ther on the crown of the root. Leaves pinnatifid. It resembles in 

 habit 0. mixta, a plant of Greece and of Asia Minor, but the outer 

 and middle phyllaries terminate in a simple, somewhat dorsal 

 spine without any accessory spines, and the appendage of the 

 inner is narrow, terminating in 3 or 5 small Dronffs, instead of the 



papery 



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excursion took me from Fozazal to Alar 



reaching the latter place we leave the limestone and all the 

 supposed appendages of the greensand, and enter a country of 

 gravelly hiUs. At first the boulders are large and often cemented 

 into rock. Aa we advance, they are smaller, and vrith less soli- 

 dity, and beyond Alar the hills gradually sink down into a sandy 

 plain, which extends all the way to Palencia, and I believe to Val- 

 ladolid. In the first part, however, these hills are varied and 

 picturesque, though deficient in wood. They 



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where there is, for Spain, a very good inn. At Alar 



conica and S. canoidea. The habit of these is sufficiently 

 distinct to attract attention, and the much greater size of the 

 seeds in S. conoidea affords a decisive character. Helianthemwm 

 canum, Selianthemum Mrtmn, Helianthemum Taherariay Doryc- 

 ^ium fruticosum, Orohus canescens^ Scorzonera hinuta, Evax pyg- 



Micropti^ erectuSy Convolvulus lineatus^ and 



Benth., T, sygis I believe of most authors. 



known 



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especially as each time I went up into their valley 



ill. I may, however, make a few remarks for the use of those who, ' 

 like myself, are not equal to prolonged exertion. At Pau, a few 

 mountain plants are brought down by the Gave, and find a home 

 on its wide bed of gravel. The valley at Eaux chaudes offers several 

 interesting plants. There is a good carriage-road to Gabas, about 

 six miles above Eaux chaudes. There you are at the foot of the 

 Pic d'Ossau. and a mule-road passes thence into Spain, which, 



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