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PHILOSOPHICAL MAGAZINE 



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JOURNAL OF SCIENCE. 



[THIRD SERIES.] 



JUNE 1833. 



LXVII. Notices of certain Plants of Marocco, Specimens of 

 which were transmitted to the Horticultural Society in 1831 ; 

 with Remarks on the Avar or Gum Sandarach Tree, and an 

 Inquiry respecting the Cedar of the Ancients. By E. W. A. 

 Drummond Hay, Esq. His Majesty's Agent, fyc. in Ma- 

 rocco*. 



r r , HE names of the following plants I have received from 

 -*- my scientific friend the Chevalier Schousboe, Consul- 

 General for Denmark, at this place (Tangier), who has been 

 for many years known by his writings to the botanical world. 



1. Passerina hirsuta, Linn.: found in the fields near La- 

 raiche, upon the western coast. 



c 2. Narcissus Bulbocodium, Linn.: from the Atlas mountains. 

 Of this I add a dozen bulbs, in hopes that some one may be 

 made to grow. 



3. Artemisia: from near to the Atlas range. The name 

 of this plant is pronounced by the Arabs of Marocco Shdchf. 

 I endeavour to show the sounds as nearly as possible accord- 

 ing to the pronunciation of an educated Englishman. It is to 

 the want of travellers having stated distinctly the pronuncia- 

 tion to which their use of the letters they employ in strange 

 proper names is to be referred, that we may ascribe much con- 

 fusion in ancient and modern history and geography ; and 

 some also, I doubt not, in other sciences. This plant Shack 



* Read before the Horticultural Society May 17, 1831; and now com- 

 municated by the Council of that Society. 



f The a is to be pronounced like the a in our participle made. 



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