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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION, 
No. 8.] (1913. 
XLVIIL—A BOTANICAL EXPEDITION TO THE 
CANARY ISLANDS, 1913. 
(With Plates.) 
T. A. SPRAGUE and J. HuTcuinson. 
as J. mimosaefolia) and Wigandia caracasana,. 
The subtropical zone of cultivation was succeeded by plantations 
of Pinus Pinaster, which extended upwards to an altitude of a 
3400 ft. The cobble-paved mountain road led upwards past the 
terminus through the pine plantations, and after a time followed 
the side of a steep ravine. Occasional glimpses were obtained 
through the trees of the opposite hillside, which in places was 
yellow with broom. 
The undergrowth in the pine plantations consisted chiefly of small 
bushes of heath (rica scoparia). The white-flowered Eupatorium 
adenophorum was very common by the side of the track in fairly 
damp places under the shade of the trees, and a singular-looking 
little herb (Sibthorpia peregrina) with long trailing stems, leaves 
like those of ground-ivy, and pretty yellow flowers, occurred in 
some abundance on the grassy banks at the side. Specimens of 
these and a few other plants were collected, and photographs were 
taken of the head of the ravine, and of the vegetation in the zone 
above the pine plantations. This consisted principally of a single 
(31674—6a,) Wt. 212—780. 1125. 11/13, D&S, 
