S P A I N. 1751. $ r 



Here I found likewife the Cijtusfahifolius, 

 and in the garden was the Mycfotis apula. I ob- 

 ferved the following things in this plant : the 

 calyx has a thick wool upon its fegments ; the 

 corolla is quinquefid; the tube is long and 

 linear ; the llmbus is quinquefid, with oval la- 

 cinia\ the filaments are fattened at the bottom 

 of the corolla, and are hardly viiible on ac- 

 count of their fbortnefs ; the anthera are very 

 fmall and oblong j the (talk is of a fpan's 

 length ; the leaves grow alternately en the 

 (talk, are equally broad, have a prominent 

 line below, and are rough. 



At laft we reached the town of IJla, which 

 is a little unfortified place, lefs than any I have 

 hitherto mentioned. It is about a quarter of 

 a Swedilh mile off the fea-ihore, in a plain 

 country ; it has on one fide a barren field, and 

 on the other a river : the houfes are not very 

 large, but flrong ; the (beets are broad and fine. 

 The (Spar Hum junceuhi) Spanilh broom (hewed 

 its admirable flowers ever a garden-wall which 

 was higher than a man's head ; this plant is dif- 

 coverable at a great diftance by its fine fmell. 

 We lodged with an Englishman who lived in this 

 town ; he accompanied us over a bridge, be-* 

 Vol, I. G tween 



