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95. Jasminum fruticans, L., Desf. i. 6 ; DC. viii. 313. — In fruit 

 only. 



96. Nerium Oleander, L., Desf. i. 208 ; DC. viii. 420.— Very 

 abundant in the bed of the river, in detached bushes, beginning to 

 flower. 



101. JEchium maritimum, Willd., DC. x. 23 ? — The specimens 

 are insufficient to enable me to determine whether they may not 

 rather perhaps belong to E. plantagineum, L. 



102. Solatium humile, Bernh. W. B. iii. 122 ; DC. xiii. 56. — 

 Very like S. nigrum, L., but of humbler growth, with smoother, 

 somewhat smaller leaves, and waxy-looking pale dull ochre-yellow 

 berries. 



103. Lycium barbarum, L., Dun. in DC. xiii. 511. — This is, I 

 believe, though without fl. or fr., the common Canarian species 

 (L. afrum, Reich, in Webb) so particularly abundant in Lanzarote 

 and Fuerteventura, which has small orange (miniaceous) elliptic- 

 ovate or oblong-ovate berries, pointed at the apex, 1-A. or 5 lines 

 long, and 1-2 broad; not "globose," "the size of a cherry," as 

 asserted by H. Gr. Reichenbach in "Webb and Berth. Phytogr. Can. 

 iii. 285, 286, probably from fruit of the true L. afrum, L., substi- 

 tuted for that of the Canarian plant, which is therefore more pro- 

 perly referable to L. barbarum, L., of Dunal in DC. I, c, although 

 the flowers in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura are not " pale red or 

 rose," but deep lavender or lilac-blue. The fruit is commonly 

 eaten by children, and is called in Fuerteventura " Rorname " ; the 

 low, excessively stiff, dense and rigid spinose bush being called 

 "Espirio " in the Canaries generally. L. europceum, L., I have found 

 only in Palma. 



107. Linaria heterophylla (Schousb.), W. B. iii. 141 ; DC. x. 

 270. This grows also on the sea-cliffs and on rocks in ravines at 

 the north end of Lanzarote ; also in Fuerteventura, and in the 

 little intermediate isle of Lobos ; but it has not hitherto been 

 found in any other of the Canary Islands. 



108. Linaria purpurea (L.), Mill., DC. x. 278 ; Antirrhinum 

 purpureum, L., Curt. Bot. Mag. t. 99. — This is the little violet- 

 blue-flowered annual Snapdragon so commonly seen in English 

 gardens. 



109. Scrophularia IcBvigata, Vahl, DC. x. 309 ; Scr. trifoliata, 

 Desf. ii. 54 (non Linn., sec. Benth. in DC. I. c). 



110. Scrophularia canina, L., Desf. ii. 53; DC. x. 315. — A very 

 distinct species, witli minute, almost black flowers. 



114. Yitex agnus-eastm, L., Desf. ii. 61 ; DC. xi. 684. — Most 



