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is heavy with rich perfume of many flowers. All the 

 fruit-trees of Europe seem to flourish side by side iii the 

 groves of Soller, There we climbed on to the Sierra, to 

 the Col de Lofra, a twelve hours' tramp, to be rewarded 

 with Brassica halearica, Genida cinerea, Taraxacum ohoca- 

 tum, and Helichrysum Lamarkii. There also we scrambled 

 in the torrent-bed of the Couma to get ffcUeborus lividus, 

 Pastinaca lucida, Linaria fratjilis, and Scutellaria Vigineuxii, 

 the most delicate of labiates. Very few folk indeed have 

 ever met with the latter, for which one has to crawl 

 between the boulders into crevices deep and damp. And 

 apart from botany, it is delightful to walk about the streets 

 and look through widely-open doors into the great tiled 

 halls, spotlessly clean, and gay with palms and flowers, 

 and get a glimpse at the far end of oranges and pelar- 

 goniums beyond. All the houses, I'ich or poor, stand wide 

 open all the time, as if the people were ambitious to show 

 off their neatness and good taste to every passer-by. Door- 

 bells are unknown and knockers I'are. If no one he at 

 home, the doors remain open just the same. The friendly, 

 simple people are everywhere good-natured and anxious 

 to please. Not a beggar, lout, or ill-behaved person did 

 we see in that fascinating land, where men and customs 

 change but slowly, and where the people have all the 

 virtues of those who mix but little with the outer world. 

 They do not know the American or British tourist ; no 

 prej^aration has been made for him, and no one speaks his 

 language. Who shall say that his coming is greatly to be 

 desired ? 



EXCUilSION OF THE SCOTTISH AlPINE IjOTANICAL CLUB 



TO Fort- William and Arisaig, July 1903. By Alex- 

 ander Cowan. 



(l^ead 11th February 1901.) 



The Club met on the evening of Monda\', 27th July, at 

 the Chevalier Hotel, Fort-William, and devoted Tuesday, 

 the 28th, to ]:>en Nevis, where a pleasant day was spent 

 in exploring the corrie. The Members were accompanied 

 by Mr. Symers M. Mac vicar, and they are greatly indebted to 



