120 MR. JOSEPH woods' NOTES OF A BOTANICAL 



The next day my walk was in the opposite direction, where 1 

 found, besides the Linum already mentioned, another species, 

 which is probably a var. of L. salsoloides, though the open flowers 

 are quite white, or with a faint tinge of yellow, while the buds are 

 decidedly yellow. As the yellow-flowered Linums are usually 

 considered to form a division of the genus, this rather puzzled me. 

 These were on a small rocky knoll at the foot of the larger hills, 

 and with them a variety of Astragalus 7nonspeliensis, some of it 

 with pink and some with yellowish flowers, 



The meadows on the way to this knoll were filled with a hand- 

 some erect variety of Campanula Bapunculus, Orohus alhus, and 

 Fedicularis comosa. This Orohus, however, has the stipules fully 

 as long as the common stalk ; while in what I suppose to be O. 

 canescens, which I met with afterwards, the common stalk is very 

 short, hardly one-fourth of the length of the stipules. A little 

 beyond these meadows, at the foot of the hills, grows Vicia Ono- 

 hrychoideSy a beautiful species. I may add to the plants of this 

 place, Alyssu7}i campestre, Biscutella saxatilis, JErucastrum obtus- 

 angulmn, Helianthemum polifoliuni and canum, Medicago suffruti- 

 cosa, and Coronilla ooronata. Carum hulbocastanum is abundant 

 in the corn. 



On the 13th of June 1 went on the railroad as far as Pozazal, 

 but an attack of illness prevented my researches and sent me 

 immediately back to Eeinosa, and afterwards to Santander, so that 

 Orchis pallens and Scorzonera humilis were all I took back with 

 me. On the 23rd I again went to Pozazal, and availed myself for 

 a few days of the hospitality of Mr. Koss at the station. A rough 

 hill gave me a Scorzonera, which I have not been able to deter- 

 mine, I saw afterwards a specimen of the same plant in the her- 

 barium of M. Darracq at Bayonne under the name of S. humifusa, 

 but that gentleman could not tell me where it was found or what 

 was the authority for the name. It does not occur in Steudel 

 nor in the ' Prodromus,' and is very badly applied to a plant with 

 an upright, single-flowered scape. The description in the last- 

 >nentioned work of IS. crispa, a plant of the Crimea, approaches 

 more nearly to it than any other I have met with ; but the neck 

 of the root is not at all fibriferous, and among a great number of 

 plants I saw no indication of a second flower. On this hill, which 

 is on the side of the road opposite to the station, I also gathered 

 Dlanthus pungens and Serratula humilis. Carduncellus mitissimus 

 is very abundant here and elsewhere. On the same side of the 

 ■railroad as the station are some barren fields, cultivated, but 



