26 eev. b. t. lowe's list of plants 



4. N. Schottii, A. Gray. Fere glabra ; foltolis ovatis eximie setaceo- 

 mucronatis; calycis dentibus setaceis tubo longioribus; staminibus 

 inferne monadelphis, superne acqualiter diadelpbis ; legumine imma- 

 turo 2-3-articulato, ala samaroidea anguste oblonga recta breviorc. — 

 Chcetocalyx Schottii, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound, p. 56, t. 18. 



A list of plants observed or collected at Mogador and in its imme- 

 diate environs dining a few days' visit to the place in Audi 

 1859 ; with notes and observations. By the Rev. R. T. Loave, 

 M.A. Communicated by the Seceetaey. 



[Read January 19th, I860.] 



A week's detention at Mogador, on the coast of Barbary, when 

 returning from Lanzarote to England in the North African Com- 

 pany's Steamer, ' Warrior,' in the spring of the present year, 

 induced naturally some comparison between the general aspect of 

 the sea-coast vegetation in the neighbourhood and that of the 

 Canary Islands and Madeira, in which I had been for some 

 months previously resident ; and although losing, by a casual 

 attack of illness, three out of the six days spent on shore, I col- 

 lected in the immediate environs, partly by my own exertions, 

 and partly by the valuable help of kind acquaintances, a sufficient 

 number, both of the plants and also of the land and sea mollusks, 

 to support the conclusions formed on the spot by observation, and 

 so, perhaps, to warrant an attempt to furnish some slight sketch 

 of the general features of Mogadorian botany and malacology*. 



For, beside the interest belonging to a place so little visited, 

 and since the time of Broussonet so wholly unexplored by any na- 

 turalist, a peculiar importance is attached to a correct appreciation 

 of the vegetable and zoological conditions of this part of the great 

 African continent. Its intermediate position between the well- 

 searched shores of Algeria in a northerly, and Senegal concholo- 

 gically, or Sierra Leone botanically, in the opposite quarter of the 

 same continent, no less than its proximity in a nearly easterly 

 direction to Madeira, and in a north-easterly to the two eastern- 

 most islands of the Canarian group, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, 

 the former lying only one degree, and the two latter only two or 

 three degrees south of its own parallel of latitude, mark it as a 

 spot possessing special claims on the attention of naturalists, — 

 bespeaking, I may hope, their favourable acceptance of any con- 



* The enumeration of the shells hero referred to will be found in the Zoolo- 

 gical portion of the present volume. 



