— foot of the “ Turmero,” or Helianthemum Caparis their pi 
TO FUERTEVENTURA AND LANCEROTTE. 
the two others are certainly new to the Canarian Flora, and perhaps 
undescribed. One of them is a little shrub formed of large tufts, 
woody and decumbent below, displaying with pride its beautiful pa- 
nicles of rose-coloured flowers; the other is more modest and herba- 
ceous, and has blue flowers. 
And now I invite you to a feast of gangas and houbaras* truffás. ; 
I have found real truffles at Handia, at Mexorata, and indeed through- 
out all Herbaniaf,— delicious white truffles! I have seen whole 
baskets of them gathered and exchanged by the ignorant Majoreros 
against an equal quantity of potatoes. These truflles grow but little. 
below the surface of the soil in dry places, and almost always a h 
revealed by slight cracks in the ground above them. ae aa 
At Lancerotte, at the foot of the chain of Famara, I found an T : 
Statice nearly allied to S. macrophylla, but. perfectly distinct, and re- 
markable for its still larger leaves, which are petiolated. This species 
is not described in your ‘ Phytographia, and Eshal have at least the. 
merit of enriching your future synopsis with three new Séatices. 
I could not discover in Fuerteventura the Rhodorrhiza Hystrix, Webb, 
MSS., brought from that island by Bourgeau, though I searched for ii 
everywhere. i 
Returning to Teneriffe, I found everything burnt up around Sa 
Cruz, and I must go far off, and to higher districts, to seek plants in 
flower. I am thinking of the woods of Taganana. There exists, it 
said, in the north, enfolded in the chain of Anaga, a certain wood. 
monte del tiempo de la Conquista," which foot of naturalist has n 
trod, and which I long to explore; but I am embarrassed as. to 
choice: one should be a Briareus, and with a multiple body, to ec 
everything and all here at the right time. I wish to penetrate the 
gnadas towards Guimar, and study the vegetation of the mountains 
the south-west, and ther the isle of Palma is there before my eyi 
waiting for me; one of those rare occasions too may occur of visit 
Gomera and Hierro, without the walls of our world, and seductive i 
their very isolation. 
I am now (August 22nd) at Orotava, d d embark. in 
* Tetrao erocles arenaria), AL DE Homans de 
t Name I d erst user the time of ui" mei 
{sland are called Majoreros by, the other Omar E 
