18 KRALIK'S BOTANICAL TOUR 
tain; Erucaria Aleppica appeared, and another species, the upper articu- 
lation of whose fruit terminates in a long curved beak, and which, if I 
remember right, has Jately received botanical baptism at the hands of 
our friend Cosson, Newrada procumbens, a Calycotome, a very variable 
annual Chrysanthemum, a shrubby Teucrium with small white flowers 
arranged in a spike, a Carduncellus, the Gymnarrhena micrantha, the 
Sonchus quercifolius, a Reseda. ‘These two last were inseparable com- 
panions: wherever the one grew the other was sure to be found, the 
Sonchus particularly in such abundance that it was evident that this 
was its native station ; for though, on account of the easy dissemination 
of its seeds by the wind, it is found here and there in the plain almost 
as far as the palm-woods, and partieularly in the Wadis which descend 
from the hills in these stations, it is always isolated; but not so on the 
hills, where it is evidently at home. ' The two companions (the Reseda 
and the Sonchus) encircle the mountain at about half its height, and are 
wanting at its base and on the plateau which surmounts it. As to the 
Reseda, Y have great difficulty in giving you an idea as to what it re- 
sembles or what it is unlike. Its external characters are :—root annual ; 
stalk stiff, straight, and virgated, as in R. alba, but far more slim ; the 
flowers spiked, but smaller ; the lower leaves entire, cordiform, the upper 
with linear divisions; the whole plant, leaves and stalk, of a deep red.* 
. lam thus well recompensed for my desertion of the antique Loto- 
 phagitis. I very much doubt whether it would have added a single 
species to those I had met with on the continent, but I hope still to 
isit it. I had become, however, the guest of the Beni-Zid : I had eaten 
their cooscoosoo, and slept beneath their tents. Though no doctor, I 
| prescribed ptisanes, and in entire security I could wander alone 
erever I wished throughout their territory. It was rumoured 
ughout the douars that an Aboa Hashish had arrived, and I was 
verywhere well received as the guest of the tribe. 
_As to my existence under the tent of the Arabs, I will not attempt 
to describe it. Our ancestors said “ sale comme un Juif :" this was the 
utmost of their knowledge, for they had never seen an Arab. After a 
repose in an Arab tent, long ablutions in the Oued Gabés and a com- 
oma were a sine quá non ; even then certain intruders cling to 
: P. is very local; o i d it. 
It : ^or been ery reels n — — to the mountain I never found 1 
