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plain are a continuation. The rocks, thougli in most parts 

 thickly clothed with bushy shrubs, show few trees, except a pine- 

 grove here and there. The species of the Pine I did not verify, 

 but it had the aspect of P. halepensis, the common Pine of the 

 ]\Iediterranean provinces of France. The remaining wood was 

 chiefly Ilex, kept low and bushy by the woodcutters. The floral 

 treasures of this range are considerable. LeguminoscB are the 

 most abundant. Besides the thorny Genista Scorpius and the 

 Spanish Broom, I noticed two other plants of kindred character : 

 the Furze which fills so large a place in the winter Flora of 

 Provence {Ulex parviflot-us, or provincialis) , and the thorny 

 Cytisus, which covers Sicily in March with its yellow blossoms, 

 Calycotome spinosa, unless I am mistaken in this last, which was 

 not yet in flower. Of non- thorny Cytisi there were as many as 

 three : C. candicans [Genista of some authors), one of the most 

 elegant, and here the most flowery of this elegant genus; C. 

 triflorus, a shrub of the height of a man, which blackens in dry- 

 ing, and with which all who have botanized near Naples must be 

 familiar; and the dwarfish C. argenteus (by some called Argyro- 

 lobium linnaammi), one of the Garrigiie plants of the south of 

 France. Anthyllis was represented by A. tetraphylla, a Palermo 

 plant; Trifolium, by the well-named T. stellatum ; Medicago 

 by several, which, for want of sufficiently developed fruits, I did 

 not determine, but which were apparently some of the common 

 ones of the south of France, — M. minima, denticuJata, prcecox, 

 Gerardi, orbicularis, or marginata. The commonest of the Co- 

 ronilla of southern France, C. Emerus, made a large display of 

 its loosely hung blossoms. Here, as everywhere in Spain, the 

 Hippocrepis comosa, the charm of English chalk hills, brought 

 pleasant remembrances of the floral beauties of Surrey and Kent, 

 though often, doubtless, confounded with H. glauca, a plant equally 

 common, and if specifically difierent, perfectly resembling comosa 

 in habit and general appearance. The Lathyri were represented 

 by the delicate and slender L. setifolius, and the large-flowered 

 L. Clymenum [tenuifolius of Gussone), which I have also found 

 at Perpignan and at Palermo. Vicia presented me with V. tenui- 

 folia of Roth, an improved likeness of V. C'racca ; and the much 

 less beautiful triflora of Tenore, the first plant I met with which 

 is not a native of France. Astragalus offered a species rather 

 insignificant in appearance, A. sesameus, a plant not unlike, at 



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