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mainly in making arrangements for our journey to the Caldera, but 
some time was spent in collecting on a lava flow near El Paso. 
There are many fields of tobacco in the neighbourhood, and 
sugar-cane is cultivated close by at Argual. Almond trees are 
planted everywhere, the produce being sent to Tazacorte for 
export. Sattlower (Carthamus tinctorius) is grown in almost all 
the cottage gardens. The florets, which are used as a dye-stuff, 
fetch 2 pesetas (1s. 6d.) per Ib. in La Palma. 
On June 11th we went on to the farm of Tenerra in the Caldera, 
accompanied by the Forest Guard at El Paso, Francisco Gonzalez 
Mendez. 
The track to the Caldera leads north from Los Llanos along a 
small gully, and over dry stony ground to the edge of the Barranco 
de las Angustias, the great ravine which forms the outlet of the 
crater. magnificent blue-flowered thistle (Cynara Cardunculus, 
var. ferocissima) occurred by the side of the track and amongst the 
stones cleared from the fields. 
At about 1400 ft. there is a fine view of the ravine, and the path 
turns sharply to the north-east, rising slightly until a cross is 
reached marking another good view-point, La Cruz de la Vina, 
1600 ft. On the opposite side of the ravine there was a great 
cliff at the top, with a large terrace at its base, much of which was 
under cultivation. Below this came a steep slope ending in another 
At 2600 ft. there were some large rounded bushes of a tansy-like 
composite (Gonospermum sp.), covered with golden-yellow flowers. 
This also occurre in some quantity higher up, on the slopes of a 
small ravine, where it formed a distinctive feature of the vegetation. 
The highest point on the track is Lomo Alto, 3800 ft., from which 
there is a slight descent to the farm of Tenerra, which was reached 
at 12 oclock. There we were most hospitably received by the 
owner, Senior Odon Gonzalez Morales, and pitched our tent under a 
x tree near the house. 
: Two days (June 12 and 13) were spent in the Caldera, On the 
first we went to the small farm of Taburiente, 2800 ft., and 
collected in the pine-woods on the way. The second day was 
devoted to exploring the base of the fine cliffs of El Capadero, 
2600-2650 ft., where we obtained a rich harvest of plants, including 
the endemic Senecio palmensis, and some phot Lavet:t 
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