42 OS BECK'S VOYAGE. 



it. The man who carried it faid he could fell 

 h to the apothecaries. 



Euphorbia Parallels,-*, kind of /purge, was 

 to be met with in the fandy grounds near the 

 fea-fhore, where the waves of the fea often 

 reached. It was at that time without fructifica- 

 tion. 



Spartium monofpermum, which the Spa- 

 niards call Retamasy grows like willow bufhes 

 along the fea-fhore as far as the flying fands 

 reach. This plant was particularly plentiful 

 in the peninfula on Which Cadiz ftan'ds, 

 which is covered with a fine white fand, and 

 where, befides this, fcarce any other plant 

 grows, except the Ononis repens, or creeping 

 reftharrow. The Retdmds fcmetimes grows to 

 the thicknefs of a man's arm; its bark is a(h- 

 coloured, the numerous branches are all green ; 

 its leaves mine like {Ilk ; the frefh leaves are 

 lanceolated, but the old ones are more obtufej 

 a little fplit at top, and reflected : the flowers 

 are innumerable, fmall, white, and have red 

 Calices. The life of this plant is very great 

 in flopping the progrefs of the flying fand. 

 The leaves and young branches cf it are very 



delicious 



