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satnm, Linaria triphylla, Lavandula dentata, Sideritis 

 romana, Avcna bromoides, Lamarkia aurea, ^Egilops ovafa, 

 and yE. triaristata. 



Passing across the island to the mountain village of 

 Pollensa, we made our way up the beautiful Val de Tern- 

 ellas as far as Castel del Eey, and met with many Balearic 

 specialities, viz. Hypericum halearicum. Bhamnns halcaricns, 

 Ruhia halcarica, Smilaoi halearica, Polygala rup)cstris, Alkanna 

 lutea, Vincetoxicmn nigrum, and Ghamcerops humilis. 



From Pollensa, also, we reached the charming hamlet of 

 Ariant, lying to the north-east amid a circle of towering 

 rock pinnacles. By the mule-path over the Col we saw 

 Delphinium picf/um, not yet in flower, and masses of Phlomis 

 italica. On the coast, beyond Ariant, we were successful 

 in finding the most interesting plant of the whole trip, the 

 very latest discovery in the Balearic flora. Six years ago 

 Mr. Clarence Bicknell, on a journey through the mountains 

 with mules, strayed from the track in a fog, and so came 

 upon a new species of Pimpinella that now bears his name. 

 Prior to our visit, no botanist but himself had seen this 

 plant growing, and without his instructions we should not 

 have found the place. Sheltered among huge masses of 

 rock fallen from stupendous precipices above, at a spot 

 where another thousand feet of cliff shelves down to the 

 sea below, Flm^imlla^.^ixJcTielli is safe enough from man's 

 interference. Although of robust habit, it may, of course, 

 be a decadent or dying-out species, under ban of some 

 inexplicable natural limitation ; Init if so, its destiny will 

 be worked out alone amid the solitude and desolation of 

 that grand north coast. My fond hope is that some day 

 I may revisit the spot at a time when the plant shall be 

 in fruit, for that had not developed in April. 



For the rest, there might be much to say on the beauty 

 of Miramar, preserved in its pi-istine wildness by the 

 Austrian Archduke Ludvig Salvator, a distinguished 

 scientist and tlie friend of all naturalists, who has there 

 a bouse filled with Majorcan antiquities and works of ait. 

 On his domain we first saw Ilippocnpis halcar.ica, Bri/jnolia 

 pastinacmfolia, and Allium suhvillosum. And of charming 

 Soller, too, the " Garden of the Hesperides," where loaded 

 orange boughs bend to the earth, and the cool evening air 



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