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less, quite in a winterly dress. Under these trees blossomed Helle- 

 borusfcetidus, L., and Daphne Laureola, L., in great numbers. 



From this valley we came to the highest ridges of the chain, which 

 are broad, partly quite naked, and in parts covered with Ptilotri- 

 chum spinosum, Boiss., Arenaria tetraquetra, L., Anthyllis Erinacea, 

 L., Genista aspalathoides, DC, Juniperus phanicea, L., and other al- 

 pine shrubs, all as yet without blossoms. In clefts of the Peiion de 

 los Enamorados, an isolated rock, I found for the first time the pretty 

 gold-flowered Draba hispanica, Boiss., which occurs plentifully on 

 all the summits of this chain, and does not descend lower than 6000 

 feet. The upper ridges of the chain were still in part covered with 

 snow. At a depressed spot, which derives the name of Hoya del 

 Tejo from a large tree of Taxus baccata, L., I met with some few 

 specimens oi Bulbocodium vernum, L., in flower, near the edge of the 

 melting snow in places thoroughly saturated with the snow water. 

 Towards five o'clock in the afternoon we came to a basin of water, 

 lying among limestone rocks and surrounded by very old pinsapos 

 and alpine oaks, called El Pilar de Tolox, where we resolved to spend 

 the night. Whilst my companions were engaged in preparing for 

 our bivouac, I ascended alone the highest summit of the mountain 

 Las Plazoletas, at whose northern foot lies the Pilar de Tolox at a 

 height of about 7000 feet. There were few flowers, except Viola 

 Demetria, Lithospermum incrassatum, Guss., and Draba hispanica on 

 this giant mountain, the only locality of the Pyrethrum Arundanum, 

 Boiss., which blossoms in August, and was discovered here by Pro- 

 longo. After a night passed merrily by the light of a large watch- 

 fire, we started the following morning through a valley filled with 

 beautiful pinsapo-woods, towards the Loma de la Alcazaba, a lofty 

 mountain- ridge, which forms the eastern boundary of the above- 

 mentioned central high table-lands, and on which grow Taraxacum 

 obovatum, T. lavigatum, Lithospermum incrassatum. Narcissus Jon- 

 guilla, Gagea polymorpha, Draba hispanica, Veronica prcecox, Lamium 

 amplexicaule var. inapertum, Boiss., Androsace maxima, L., Viola ar- 

 vensis, V. Demetria, and a small yellow Alyssum in profusion ; and, 

 less frequent, Thlaspi Prolongi, Boiss., Viola parvula, Guss., and a 

 small very white woolly alpine form of Cynoglossum cheiri/olium, L. ; 

 and thence over the Cerro de los Pilones, overgrown with Salvia 

 officinalis, towards the Puerto de las tres Cruzes, where I found BuU 

 bocodium vernum for the second time, on the edge of the melting 

 snow. From this pass we descended to the Hoya de la Caridad, a 

 hollow surrounded by limestone rocks, in the clefts of which Thlaspi 

 Prolongi occurred in tolerable plenty ; and from hence through a val- 

 ley filled with luxuriant pinsapos, towards an immense mass of rocks, 

 called Tajo de Pedro Muiioz, in the vicinity of which I found on the 

 boggy meadow land Narcissus pseudo-narcissus, L., in great plenty. 

 From this point we returned to Yunquera, traversing a lofty moun- 

 tain-pass, through a narrow rocky valley, which bears the name of 

 Las Angusturas de los Corales, where Viola Demetria and Draba 

 verna occur plentifully, and Lepidium heterophyllum, Bth., rarely. 



The environs of Malaga present at this season of the year a very 



