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animals are now in good condition, from feeding on the leaves 

 and young shoots of the different species of Acacia. 



At last, quite worn out with fatigue, want of food, and the 

 vexation of seeing almost all the animals I had caught perish 

 for lack of proper nutriment, I returned to Macalisberg, 

 having been absent nearly three months upon this excursion, 

 and without Mr. Zeyher for the last four weeks. 



(To be continued). 



Boissieb. Spanish Botany. Excursions round Malaga, fyc. 



[Continued from Vol. IV. p. 393). 



On the 14th of May, after despatching my whole collec- 

 tions to Malaga, I pursued my journey, and soon reached 

 koin, passing through a fine country, intersected with valleys, 

 where Thulictrum glaucum adorned the edges of the water- 

 conises, and the fields were enamelled with the blue flowers 

 of Convolvulus tricolor. Coin, which is only two leagues 

 distant from Alhaurin, is a rich and still larger village, abound- 

 in g, too, with that rare blessing in Spain, spring water ; I 

 noticed with admiration several fountains, where the water 

 was gushing from ten or fifteen sources. These two villages 

 and their delicious neighbourhood supply Malaga with almost 

 a " the vegetables consumed in that city ; and the combined 

 moisture and coolness of the air allow the fruits of our tem- 

 perate regions, such as cherries and strawberries, which cannot 

 »e raised on the coast, to grow side by side with the orange 

 and citron. I noticed large beds of ripe strawberries, the 

 species being the same as with us, and equally fragrant. 



After quitting Coin, the ground continues to rise and to 

 become less fertile, the clayey soil being little cultivated and 

 surrendered to the indigenous and characteristic production 

 of Phlomis Herba Venti, Echinops strigosus, several species of 

 Scolymus and the Cynara cardunculus, the latter is that wild 

 ype ot the artichoke, and attains an enormous size, with 



