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florus) and the elegant Galactites tomentosa. Of Boragineoe, I 

 observed the common Borage, and a fine Echium, perhaps the 

 violaceum of the Channel Islands, but it was not suflSciently ad- 

 vanced to enable me to distinguish it with perfect certainty from 

 E. plant agineum, one of the handsomest of the tribe, which, as 

 well as others, has been confounded under the name violaceum. 

 The Scroplmlarinece were Antirrhinum Orontium ; the brilliantly 

 yellow Linaria supina ; Scrophularia peregrina of Italy and Sicily; 

 S. canina of southern and middle Europe. The genus Euphorbia 

 was largely represented : E. Peplus and helioscopia of course ; 

 those fine plants serrata and Characias, the first common in the 

 south of France, the second everywhere in the South {E. Cypa- 

 rissias and gerardiana, so frequent in southern Europe, I did not 

 see) ; but the principal Euphorbia of the plain of Barcelona is E. 

 terracina, less striking in appearance than some of these, but more 

 curious when examined. Thecalycinal glands characteristic of the 

 genus, which in this, as in many other species, are of a crescent 

 form, are terminated in E. terracina by a pair of setse, exactly 

 resembling the antennae of an insect. The M onocotyledonece which 

 I noted were that common weed Muscari comosum,ihe wild original 

 of one of the ornaments of our gardens, and Asjjhodelus fistulosus, 

 the smallest European species of its genus, not general in the 

 south of France, though not unknown there, but most plentiful 

 here as well as in Sicily. Of Ferns, no abundance could be 

 expected in these dry climates, but the Ceterach grew plenti- 

 fully here and elsewhere, as did also the Maidenhair [Adiantum 

 Capillus-Veneris) , wherever there was local dampness and depth 

 of shade. 



The mountain Flora of Barcelona is much more copious, and 

 as I explored it twice, at some interval of time, I can give a 

 rather fuUer account of it. Apart from their form and compo- 

 sition, these heights would scarcely be entitled to a more ambi- 

 tious name than that of hills. The range, at least this part of 

 it, is of small breadth, and the line of summit looks down upon 

 a wide extent of country, rugged and rocky enough, but of little 

 elevation, though varied with occasional eminences, among which 

 the lofty and many-pinnacled ridge of Monserrat is supreme. 

 The rocks of the maritime range are calcareous, like those of 

 Bas-Languedoc and Provence, and the mountain sides are cut 

 through by deep ravines, of which the gullies that intersect the 



