o8 OS BECK'S VOYAGE. 



Of plants I found only the following : 



Arifiida Adfccnfonis , on a mountain. 



Sherardia fruticofa y afingle plant on a plain. 



Convolvulus pes caprce, on the fhore. 



Euphorbia origanoldes, between the flones, 

 the food of the goats. 



Tortulaca oleracea, among the flones ; tho' 

 as yet very tender. This plant was the mofl 

 common. Such a poor Flora is feldom to be 

 met with on fo great an ifland. Where the 

 foil was not covered with (tones, it looked like 

 a diflricl: where a foreft had been burnt down. 

 And fome of the aforementioned plants grew 

 here and there. However, on the flones grow r s 

 yet 



Lichen foliaceus albus, zndfarinaceus, name- 

 ly, green and yellow, but I was not able to 

 carry any flones on account of the great heat : 

 Yet I took a couple of pieces of perfect petri- 

 fied wood with me. One of thefe petrefactions 

 was half a branch of a tree, in which the 

 bark, wood, and grain, were all diftinguifh- 

 able. The other was a branch which was fo 

 I fimilar 



