410 Mr. Drummond Hay on certain 



^*, is used as a vermifuge by the Moors, who pound its 



leaves, flower and small stalks, all which are bitter, and make 

 a paste of them with honey, which they administer every morn- 

 ing fasting, for three or four days, as they tell me. I am in- 

 formed by the natives that it is abundant near a place called 

 Taza (by some written Tezza\ about two days' journey east, or 

 rather perhaps north-east, from Faz; also in the region be- 

 tween Marocco and Mogodor ; and so vastly does it abound, 

 that the sheep in some of those districts feed almost exclusively 

 upon it. I send a parcel marked Shuck A, obtained by me as 

 a drug at this place. The packet marked B is not so fresh, 

 and this specimen of the drug appears to be from a younger 

 or smaller plant than the former. The little packet marked C 

 contains the flower and seed, I presume, some of which are to 

 be found in the parcel A. The whole is sold and used indis- 

 criminately for the medicine. 



4. Narcissus viridiflorus : rare. Grows in the plains of 

 Showeea. 



5. Ornithogalum jibrosum : very rare. See Desfontaines, 

 " Flora Atlantica" tab. 84. It is found in the forest of Mah- 

 mdra, near Mahadea. 



6. Narcissus serotinus, Linn.: found in the plains of Showeea. 

 Of this I send, besides the three pressed specimens with flowers, 

 four bulbs ; but much fear that they have been kept too long 

 to grow. 



7. Jasminumfruticans, Linn. : also from the plains of Sho- 

 weea. 



8. Leucoium autumnale, Linn.: grows in the plains of Al 

 Gharb. 



9. Viola arborescens, Linn. : from the district of the Shtooka 

 tribe. The tribes of Shtooka and of Sheadma occupy the re- 

 gion of the coast to the north of Azamor. 



10. A small branch with leaves and fruit of the Arar nr 



(more correctly pronounced Araroori), which Mr. Schousboe 

 kindly procured for me. He names it, after Desfontaines, 

 Thuja articulata. 



I have not seen the Work of Desfontaines; yet I conceive 

 that he must, by the name he gives to the Arar, have suspected 

 this tree to be the $6ov of the Greeks, or Arbor citri, as Pliny 

 calls it (lib. xiii. cap. 29. and 30.), and of which that extraor- 

 dinary cyclopaedist gives so highly interesting an account; as 

 the material of large and beautiful tables used by the ancient 

 jVfoors, and which had been brought to Rome as early as in 

 the time of Cicero, who had a noble board of the sort. 



