122 MR. JOSEPH woods' NOTES OE A BOTANICAL 



Mr. Mould for the opportunity of visiting the hill above it called 

 Congusto, a very curious eminence from the labyrinth of detached 

 and fantastic limestone rocks which crown its summit, and par- 

 ticularly interesting to the botanist from the number of good 

 plants which grow upon it : — 



Alyssum montanmn. Serratula nudicaulis. 



Sisymbrium ? Centav/rea ? 



Arenaria tetraquetra. Thymus vulgaris. 



Arenaria conimhrensis. Stachys ? 



Linum salsoloides. Coris monsjpeliensis. 



Linum salsoloides, yellow- Rumex hucephalophorus. 



flowered. Euphorlia serrata. 



Linum reflexum ? Ophrys lutea. 



JRhamnus alpinus. Ophrys tenthredinifera. 



An JJmbellate : undetermined. Anthericum Liliago, 



Saocifraga ? , Trifolium, perhaps ccespitosum, 



Hieracium ? but more woody than usual. 



The Sisymhrium here mentioned is in many respects like S. 

 austriacum, but it is a much smaller plant, 4 feet high instead of 

 2 feet, and the pod is longer in proportion and much more slender. 

 The Linmns are those I have already mentioned. The TImhellate 

 was not far enough advanced to show the nature of the seeds. 

 The root-leaves were simply pinnate, oblong in the outline ; the 

 leaflets sessile and almost as broad as long, incise, and the lower 

 ones almost palmatinerved. The stalk spreads out into a broad 

 sheath with a membranous margin. The stem-leaf pinnate, with 

 few, linear-lanceolate leafits. Bracts one or two. Bracteoles 

 about 5. Calyx obsolete. Mowers pinkish, not at all radiant, — The 

 Saxifrage belongs to the division Dactyloides of Tausch, and to my 

 division C. ii. a. M. Darracq pronounced it to be the >S^. ladanifera 

 of Duby, pedatifida, Auct. ; but that has the leaf deeply divided 

 into three parts, and these again more or less subdivided: the 

 plant of Congusto has thick fleshy leaves, not viscid when fresh, but 

 exuding a gummy matter along the margin in drying. They end 

 in 3 or 5 teeth without any deep separation ; the barren shoots 

 are not much lengthened, and the whole plant is rigid to the touch. 

 The haft is not longer than the blade. Teeth of calyx very blunt. 

 Quaere if S. capitata ? 



My next plant is a Jlietricitim, and I am almost tempted here to 

 repeat the remark I made on Orohanche. This plant seems to 

 belong to the Villosae, or perhaps to the Andryaloides, for the hairs 



