398 NOTES OF A BOTANICAL TOUR 
On attaining some elevation, that is, about a thousand feet 
above the sea by rude estimate, the orange had disappeared ; 
fig trees had become more numerous than below; and the 
vines were giving place to apple trees, of stunted size, and pro- 
ducing small fruit of little flavour, as I afterwards ascertained, 
for at this time the fruit was notfull grown. Vineyards were 
thus changing into orchards, not by any abrupt transition 
from one to the other, but by the substitution of the apple, 
for the orange, vine, fig and peach in succession; while the 
appearance also of patches of cocos or “ yams” (Caladium) 
and potatoes, which were scarcely seen lower down, indicated 
a transition from orchards to field crops. At first we saw 
occasional patches of these vegetables, interspersed with the 
fruit trees. Higher up, indigenous shrubs took the place of 
planted fruit trees ; single bushes or clumps of Laurus (Cana- 
riensis or Barbasana ?) Myrica Faya, Myrsine retusa, Erica 
scoparia and Juniperus (communis?) being left to grow on 
stony or rocky spots that were unsuitable for the cultivation 
of the tuber-bearing vegetables just named. 
As we passed across the orchard and potato grounds, 
Solanum Pseudo-capsicum was observed rather frequently by 
the road side, and Smilax divaricata (Solander MSS. in Herb. 
Banks.) was gathered in one locality among the apple trees, 
but no doubt quite wild there. Tillea muscosa and Trifolium 
suffocatum were collected in the road, and Asplenium pal- 
matum very sparingly on the walls by which it was enclosed. 
A few tufts of Calluna vulgaris were seen about the altitude 
at which Solanum Pseudo-capsicum ceased, and a single plant 
of Aquilegia vulgaris, with a white flower, being the only 
specimen which I found in the islands. 
. Somewhat higher, the patches of cultivated ground visibly 
decreased, and the clumps of native shrubs became larger and 
closer, finally coalescing into a belt of natural wood, consist- 
ing of the Laurus, Myrica, Myrsine, Erica and Juniperus 
above mentioned. The road now was becoming more damp 
and less stony or rocky, and narrowed in places to a mere 
cattle track between rising banks, which were thickly car- 
