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short walk along the shore near that town, and add two or three 

 species to our list of the coast-flora. 



On reaching Tangier Dr. Hooker's engagements forced him to 

 proceed at once to Gibraltar, and thence return to England. I 

 was enabled to spend one day at Tangier, and after an absence of 

 not quite two months found the aspect of the vegetation wonder- 

 fully altered, since the appearance of a large number of species not 

 before seen gave the neighbourhood an aspect of complete novelty. 

 The flowers of the Cisti had disappeared; but in their place were 

 many Composite and Labiatse and other summer-flowering species. 

 ^ The most conspicuous was the magnificent Salvia JicoZor, which at- 



tains a height of 7 or 8 feet, each of its numerous branches bearing 

 the conspicuous white-and-blue flowers to which it owes its name. 

 During the period of our stay in the interior we had arranged, 

 through the kind assistance of Mr. Carstensen, to send two natives 

 to collect plants near Agadir, about 80 miles south of Mogador, near 

 - to Cape Guer, where the Great Atlas range finally subsides into 

 the Atlantic Ocean. The result, which seemed to show that the 

 character of the vegetation does not vary much along this part of 

 the coast, yet sufficed to prove that with due perseverance some- 

 thing might be accomplished towards extending our knowledge of 

 the Marocco flora through native collectors. 



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M. Beaumier. Frencli Consul at Mogad 



on his own side neither trouble nor expense to effect his object, 

 has caused two native collectors to travel into the interior for 

 several successive seasons. One of these, a very intelligent Jew, 

 a native of Akka, a place on tlie southern side of the Great Atlas 

 between the rivers Sous and Noun, has been chiefly employed in 

 the region, utterly inaccessible to European travellers, between the 

 oasis of Akka and the neighbourhood of the Atlantic coast. The 

 other, a Schleuh by birth, and a native of the mountains, has been 

 mainly engaged in making collections in a district nearly adjoining 

 the portion of the Great Atlas which we were able to explore. 

 The collections first sent home were in indifferent condition, and 

 the specimens incomplete ; but M. Cosson's perseverance over- 

 came all difficulties, and the collections lately received would do 

 credit to a professed naturalist. 



When I consulted my excellent friend M. Cosson on the sub- 

 ject of the present publication, he was good enough to suggest 

 that we should jointly bring out a work which might bear to the 



