SPAIN. 1751. fo- 



llowers entirely covered the ditches and ponds. 

 In them I found alfo the Conferva Imllofa. I 

 came into a little wood of Spanifh firs, where 

 the Bvfus candelaris cloathed the trees. The 

 wood was furrounded, like the gardens, with 

 hedges of Agave, or American aloe. It is no 

 wonder that theie woods are inclofed,. for the 

 thin and hard boards they afford for chefls to. 

 pack lemons in are often dearer than the fruit 

 irl'clf. In the fir-wood I found a good many 

 icarce plants, and among the reft the S/Jym- 

 brium fyhejirc, on which I difcovered a hairy 

 caterpillar, which afterwards became a fmooth, 

 pale-green coloured, oblong-pointed, angula- 

 rcd, Warty, black aurelia, having on the back 

 a convex elevation. In its third change it be- 

 came the Papllio hyak Linn, or Pafilio Caroli- 

 nianus lutcus apicibus nigris. Petiv. Muf. p. 12, 

 T.VII. %. ic. 



Opchis fuftejfens Linn, bulb is fajciculatis t 

 ■iicel arii labia ova to indivifo fvberenato, was very 

 worthy of obiervation, as appears from the 

 following defcription : the root confifts of two 

 or more tuberous fimple bulbs, excepting four 

 or fix fibres towards the beginning of the 

 (talk ; the flalk was. about the length of a 

 fpan, round and red j four leaves are near the 



root, 



