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ronicum, and says, " Of this plant there be sundry kinds, whereof 

 I will touch four ;" and the figures of the plants are given. He 

 also adds, that he had two kinds growing in his garden, one of 

 which, " Great Leopard' s-bane, Doronicum majus oficmarum, 

 has been found and gathered in the cold mountains of Northum- 

 berland 1^ Dr. Penny, lately of London, a man of much ex- 

 perience and knowledge in samples, whose death myself and 

 others do greatly bewail." 



Was this Doronicum which grew on the cold mountains of 

 Northumberland, an outcast from the garden ? 



S. B. 



BOTANY OF SPAIN. 



A Few Days' Botanizing in the North-Eastern Provinces of 

 Spain, in April and May, 1860. 



No. III. 



From Valencia to Madrid we travelled all the way by railroad, 

 and had no opportunity of botanizing, except an hour's walk at 

 the point where the Valencia branch meets the Alicante line. 

 This point is Almansa, in the kingdom of Murcia, and the rail- 

 way-station is in the very field of battle, where the English arms 

 sustained one of the few defeats they underwent in the war of 

 Marlborough and Queen Anne. To write the name Almanza is 

 in every way a mistake ; it is spelt with an s, and that letter in 

 Spanish is never sounded like z. The shabby-looking little 

 country town, which I only saw from outside, is still, probably, 

 much what it was then. The adjacent country was mostly, at 

 this season, in a freshly-ploughed state, and my botanizing was 

 limited to a strip of ground between two lines of cultivation. 

 There, however, I found Adonis autumnalis, Sisymbi'ium Trio and 

 Sophia, Erysimum perfoliatum, a Camelina (I believe sylvestris) , 

 Hypecoum procumbens, a single plant of another Htjpecoum, H. 

 pendulum, the curiously podded Enarthrocarpus arcuatus, and 

 the fine dark-coloured Poppy, Roemeria hybrida. It is remarkable 

 (and could scarcely have happened at any season but early spring) 

 that all the plants I saw were of the three neighbouring families, 

 Ranunculaceee, Papaveracece, and Cruciferce. 



