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4600 feet above the sea, were very productive in species not before 

 seen, and one or two of them altogether new. We next went to 

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widely spread tropical Celasfrus, which, when found in the south 

 of Spain, was taken to be a new species and called C. europceus^ 

 but which Professor Oliver has shown to be the C. senegaJensis 

 of Lamarck. We had already gathered this plant near the foot 

 of the Grreat Atlas ; but until then it was not known to grow any- 

 where between Senegal and the south of Spain. 



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was outside the Kasbah or Castle of the Grovernor of Mzouda, 

 then engaged in local war with the Governor of Haha. This 

 affiiir caused us, in compliance with an urgent letter forwarded . 



by courier from Mr. Carstensen, to alter our route and proceed ^ 



northward, to a place called Mskala, on the border of the provinces 

 of Haha and Shedma. Here the Governor of the latter province 

 was encamped with a considerable force of his retainers, watching 

 the progress of the petty war pending between the neighbouring 

 tribes. On the next evening we met Mr. Carstensen by appoint- 

 ment at the Kasbah of the Governor of Shedma; and instead of 

 returning direct to Mogador, we proceeded together on the 1st of 

 June through a pleasant country to Ain el Hadjar, a place where 

 numerous springs break out from the foot of the Djebel Hadid, or 

 Iron Mountain, a long, flat-topped ridge that rises near the coast 

 some 15 miles north of Mogador. Although the heat was by no 

 means oppressive, the season was rather far advanced for seeing 

 the vegetation to full advantage; but we passed a not unprofitable 

 day upon the mountain, the chief drawback on our enjoyment 

 being the extraordinary number and variety of spiny and prickly 

 buslies which cover its slope. One of these, which escaped the ' 



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 were able to spend a great part of one day at Saffi, w^here we em- 'u 



barked cargo, and, among other plants of interest, were enabled to 

 add to the short list of Canary-Island plants that extend to the 



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