288 MR. J. BALL’S SPICILEGIUM FLORH MAROCCAN®. 
Mogador, not having any favourable opportunity for landing at 
Mazagan or Saffi. We reached Mogador on the 25th of April ; 
and after attending to the requisite arrangements for our journey 
we visited the curious neighbourhood of that town. The vegeta- 
tion of the neighbourhood, and especially that of the low rocky 
island which forms the port, had suffered severely from the perio- 
dical visitation of locusts which had lately passed over the district; 
but we were able to secure most of the interesting species found 
by our predecessors ; and_on the 29th we started for the interior, 
making a slight detour by keeping southward near the coast for 
some five or six miles, and thereby making fuller acquaintance with 
the Argan forest, and then across the country till we rejoined our 
tents and baggage outside the walls of the extensive castle of 
the Governor of Shedma. During most of the day we had tra- 
versed the northern part of Haha, a very large province that ex- 
tends along the coast from Mogador to Agadir and to the skirts 
of the Atlas chain. It is needless to say that on this, as on each 
succeeding day of our ride to Marocco, we encountered many in- 
teresting plants, some altogether new to us, some known only 
from dried specimens, and several hitherto undescribed. On the 
evening of the 30th we reached Ain Oumast, a spring where tra- 
vellers necessarily encamp, as for many miles eastward the country 
is an arid stony desert, closely resembling in aspect, as well as in 
its vegetation, some parts of the Sahara. 
On the 1st of May we encamped at Sheshaoua, a veritable oasis, 
where in the shade of fruit-trees we were surprised to find many 
common European species. The soil surrounding it appears to 
contain much gypsum, and produced an unusual proportion of 
Chenopodiacer. 
A long ride on the following day took us to Misra ben Kara, a 
place near the banks of a considerable stream that flows north- 
ward from the Great Atlas; and on the following day a short but 
hot ride across the glowing plain took us to the ancient capital of 
Marocco. . 
While detained in Maroceo Mr. Maw made an interesting ex- 
cursion to the nearest of some rocky hills of metamorphic rock 
that rise a few miles N.W. of the city. He brought back a new 
species of Boerhavia, Forsakhlia tenacissima, Andropogon laniger, 
and several other species not hitherto seen by us. 
On the 8th of May, after encountering various tokens of un- 
friendly disposition on the part of some of the native authorities, 
