178 NOTICE OF BOTANICAL PUBLICATIONS. 
varied objects of Natural History, are beyond all praise. 
We trust to recur again to this work when it shall be con- 
cluded. In the meanwhile we gladly direct the attention of 
our readers to two Botanical Treatises written by the distin- — 
guished naturalist and elegant scholar, Mr Webb, on the — 
Plants of the southern provinces of Spain and of Portugal. - 
The nature of the ‘Iter Hispaniense is best explained by the 
following extracts from tbe preface :— f 
* Ten years," says Mr Webb, **have elapsed since em- 
barking from Belem at the. mouth of the Tagus, for the 
island of Madeira, I took leave of the Spanish peninsula. 
During two years, from the spring of 1826, to the 6th of May, 
1828, I had examined more or less the whole of that fertile — 
region, which extends along the shores of the Mediterranean, ^ 
from the foot of the Pyrenées to the mouth of the Guadal- 
quivir; the neighbouring coast of Africa, from the mountains 
around Tetuan to the south of Cape Spartel; and the greater 
part of Portugal, from Braga in the north, to the chains of aS 
Cintra and Arrabida in the south. Two years afterwards, —— 
on my return from the Canaries, in company with M. Ber- 
thelot, I again saw Gibraltar and its environs, whence We : 
sailed to the low islet of-Alboran, beyond the mid channel of pe 
the Mediterranean betwixt Spain and Barbary. From thence - : 
the wind not permitting us to make Melilla, we left behind, i 
not without regret, the lofty mountains of the province of | 
El Rif, in Morocco, and cast anchor amongst the three 
islands now called tbe Zapharines. From thence Wefinally — 
touched at Oran and Algiers, distarbed at that time both by i: 
their recent conquests, and the political dissensions of the 
conquerors, and altogether unfitted for our peaceful pursuits» 
** Such was the course of a journey, too short if measured — 
by the space explored, and too quickly accomplished, if regard 
be bad to the interest attached to the localities. Turned 
always towards the south, I did not stop till I reached Madeira 
_ and the Canaries, hastily collecting on the way such objects 
as the season offered. - Much therefore is left undone in these - 
rich fields of Flora, in which, notwithstanding. the. gleanings - 
