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petted with Tormentilla officinalis, Fragaria vesca, Prunella 
vulgaris, and other small plants of northern Europe. Ferns 
became plentiful here, including Pteris arguta, Allantodea 
umbrosa, Balantium Culcita, Aspidium fenesecii and some 
others. Zuzula elegans (of Guthnick, not of Lowe) was 
frequent; and the pink or pale pürple colour of its flowers 
rendered it much more ornamental, than any of our own na- 
tive species. On shaded banks, where the road became a sort 
of gulley, I gathered Bellis Azorica (Guthnick’s collection), 
Lysimachia Azorica (Hornemann), Erythrea diffusa (Woods), 
and Lycopodium suberectum (Lowe). The long flowered form 
of Vaccinium Maderénse (which is V. cylindraceum of Smith) 
was pretty frequent on the banks by the road side, and highly 
ornamental. A few plants of Daphne Laureola were also 
observed, and Hypericum foliosum (Aiton, which is H. grandi- 
folium, Chois.) was rather plentiful, ioone not yet in 
flower. 
As we continued to ascend, the narrow belt of natural 
wood, which was formed by the evergreen shrubs inters- 
persed with ferns again became broken into clumps; the 
intermediate spaces being now covered by a grassy sward, 
with many small pools of stagnant water, which gave an abode 
to Scirpus fluitans, Scirpus Savii, Carex stellulata, Callitriche 
verna, Peplis Portula and Potamogeton natans. Though very 
small and shallow, these pools are kept supplied with water 
by the mists and clouds from which this part of the moun- 
tain is seldom quite clear, Among the short grass here, I 
noticed Bellis Azorica, Erythrea diffusa, Carex Azorica, and 
. Carex sagittifera, all plentiful. Fragaria vesca and Tormen- 
tilla officinalis (passing into 7. reptans) were extremely abun- 
dant, as, indeed, they are almost every where in the islands 
above the height of a thousand feet, though scarcely seen in 
the low grounds near the coasts, except under the shade of 
rocks. 
On getting more completely within the region of clouds 
and moisture, all the shrubs ceased except Erica scoparia, 
which still grew in scattered patches, and attained a height 
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