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lent in the Canaries; but at the height of about 1600 feet 
I at length found the sides of the hills and small vallies co- 
vered with large bushes of a Thymalea, resembling the pisca- 
toria, but the identity difficult to be established. A Sider- 
ovylon, I was told, formed thickets on the highest mountains, 
but I saw only one sterile plant resembling the Marmulana 
of Madeira. 
«¢ T have, in the following table,* divided the vegetation of 
St. Jago into two regions only, and doubt if the plants of 
the Pico de San Antonio differ sufficiently to form a third. 
I must however observe, that a two days excursion, in the 
dry season, and in one of the least fertile parts of one island 
only, is by no means sufficient to establish a physical ar- 
rangement of the flora of the islands in general, where such 
difference of localities exist as in the burning peak of Fogo, 
and the wooded mountains of the island of San Antonio. 
Indeed, from the little I had time to observe, I am convinced 
that a botanist would have his labour well repaid should he 
give a sufficient. time to the examination of the vegetable 
reign of these islands; nor can I help being surprised that 
no one has yet turned his attention towards them.” 
With respect to the cultivated vegetables, Dr. Smith ob- 
serves, ‘“* Cultivation is only seen in the glens or ravines, 
* Inserted in Professor’s Smith’s Journal. 
