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4600 feet above the sea, were very productive in species not before 
seen, and one or two of them altogether new. We next went to 
Milhain, psssing on the way Imintenout, where the main track 
from Marocco to Tarudant enters the mountains. Our next camp 
was outside the Kasbah or Castle of the Governor of Mzouda, 
then engaged in local war with the Governor of Haha. This 
affair caused us, in compliance with an urgent letter forwarded 
by courier from Mr. Carstensen, to alter our route and proceed 
northward, to a place called Mskala, on the border of the provinces 
of Haha and Shedma. Here the Governor of the latter province 
was encamped with a considerable force of his retainers, watching 
the progress of the petty war pending between the neighbouring 
tribes. On the next evening we met Mr. Carstensen by appoint- 
ment at the Kasbah of the Governor of Shedma; and instead of 
returning direct to Mogador, we proceeded together on the 1st of 
June through a pleasant country to Ain el Hadjar, a place where 
numerous springs break out from the foot of the Djebel Hadid, or 
Iron Mountain, a long, flat-topped ridge that rises near the coast 
some 15 miles north of Mogador. Although the heat was by no 
means oppressive, the season was rather far advanced for seeing 
the vegetation to full advantage; but we passed a not unprofitable 
day upon the mountain, the chief drawback on our enjoyment 
being the extraordinary number and variety of spiny and prickly 
bushes which cover its slope. One of these, which escaped the 
vigilant eyes of M. Balansa when he visited the mountain, is the 
widely spread tropical Celastrus, which, when found in the south 
of Spain, was taken to be a new species and called C. ewropeus, 
but which Professor Oliver has shown to be the C. senegalensis 
of Lamarck. We had already gathered this plant near the foot 
of the Great Atlas ; but until then it was not knuwn to grow any- 
where between Senegal and the south of Spain. 
On June 3rd we returned to Mogador, and were again hospitably 
entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Carstensen, until the arrival of a 
British steamer enabled us to take our passage homeward. We 
were able to spend a great part of one day at Saffi, where we em- 
barked cargo, and, among other plants of interest, were enabled to 
add to the short list of Canary-Island plants that extend to the 
African coast the curious fleshy Zygophyllum Fontanesii, figured 
by Webb in the ‘ Phytographia Canariensis.’ 
We also landed at Mazagan, and had time enough to make a 
