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southern declivity is still poorer in plants than the central i)art of 

 Trevelez, and gathered only one neM' plant, viz. the rare Erodium 

 trichomancefolium, L'Herit., which grows pretty plentifully on boul- 

 ders of mica on the broad and high coombe between the Puerto de 

 Jeres and Puerto del Lobo, but seldom blossoms. 



On the 18th of September I quitted Trevelez, with the hope of 

 obtaining a richer harvest in other parts of the Alpujarras ; but in 

 this hope I was soon deceived ; for the further I went towards the 

 south, all was parched under the summer sun. Except Carlina co- 

 rymbosa, Picnomon Acarna, Chameepeuce hispanica, Antirrhinum molle, 

 Senecio linifolius, Helichrysum serotinum, Artemisia campestris, Bu- 

 pleurum spinosum, Altheea cannahina, Centaurea Calcitrapa and sal' 

 mantica, — plants which are especially common on the limestone for- 

 mation and which I had already collected, — I observed in the valleys 

 of the limestone mountains between Trevelez, Notaez, and Orgiva 

 only Scilla maritima, L., in blossom, and on the perfectly arid lime- 

 stone in the neighbourhood of Notaez, some bushes of the beautiful 

 Lavatera ohlongifolia, Boiss. Even the environs of the charmingly 

 situated baths of Lanjaron presented, with the exception of some 

 salt-plants growing around the mineral springs, little of interest. 

 There were in blossom Samolus Valerandi, L., Erythrcea maritima ?, 

 Statice globulariafolia, Desf., and a Linum ; whilst on the arid lime- 

 stone rocks in the neighbourhood of the town grow the sweet- 

 smelling Balsamita multijicta, Clem, (according to Boissier's ' Voyage' 

 Tanacetum annuum, L. ?), and in some fissures of the rock, but very 

 rarely and not in blossom, the Lapiedra Martinezii, Lag. On per- 

 pendicular limestone rocks at Orgiva and between Lanjaron and 

 Granada I for the first time met with the rare Brassica moricandioides, 

 Boiss., with thick, round, fleshy, bluish green leaves, with ripe fruit, 

 in company with Bupleurum gihraltaricum, Lavandula multifida and a 

 Satureja. In order also to ascertain the nature of the vegetation of 

 the coast at this season, I made an excursion on the 20th of Sep- 

 tember to the town of Motril, distant four leagues from Lanjaron 

 and half a league from the coast, which is reached by the romantic 

 valley of the Rio Grande, which carries off almost all the water from 

 the southern declivity of the Sierra Nevada to the sea. The valleys 

 of the Alpujarras possess quite a different character from those of 

 the north side, for they are all very wide and the beds of the rivers 

 very broad, even and sandy. Their banks, as especially those of the 

 Rio Grande, are clothed with thick and liigh bushes of Arundo Do- 

 nax, L., which began to unfold its colossal bunch of blossoms, and 

 the beautiful Saccharmn Ravenna:, L., clothed with its elegant silver 

 panicles ; in company with which plants are found in profusion the 

 Tamarix gallica and Nerium Oleander. Further toward the sea ap- 

 pear the Salix alba, S. purpurea, Populus nigra, alba and canescens 

 frequent on the banks ; Passerina hirsuta, L., which blossoms through- 

 out the year ; Scilla maritima and Chamcerops humilis, M'hich already 

 from Orgiva and Lanjaron indicated the neighbourhood of the coast 

 and the hot region. On the northern declivity of the last chain of 

 hills between the valley of the Rio Grande and the Plain of Motril, 



