1861.] BOTANY OF SPAIN. 329 



phyllos ; an Alyssum, new to me, which I believe to be A. peru- 

 sianum, a plant noted in the ' Flore de France/ with onl}^ one 

 habitat (in the Eastern Pyrenees)] Ceratocephalus falcatus, for- 

 merly classed as a Ranunculus, whose small flower gives birth to 

 an oval head of scythe-shaped carpels, sometimes equalling in 

 dimensions all the rest of the plant ; and last of all, abounding 

 among the young corn, a plant of the Order Primulacea, with a 

 small bright flower sunk in the hollow of a very large calyx, 

 Avhich I did not at first see to be a lowland species of the high- 

 land genus Androsace ; it is yi. maxima, which I found again at 

 Zaragoza, and the seeds of which are said in the country to be 

 edible. Of plants not in flower I noted only a Euphorbia and 

 the formidable Thistle Picnomon Acarna. 



From Zaragoza, the prosperous capital of a backward province, 

 noted for its glorious siege and for its two splendid cathedrals, I 

 made a successful herborization. The immediate vicinity con- 

 tains abundance both of waste and cultivated land, dry rocky 

 garrigue, and low arable, fertilized by water tumbling in cascades 

 from sluices in a broad canal carried along a very high embank- 

 ment. Of plants already mentioned I noted Rcemeria hybrida, 

 Fumaria spicata, Mathiola tristis, Lepidium Draba, Sisymbrium 

 obtusangulum and Irio, two Helianthema, Genista Scorpius, and 

 I believe Culycotome spinosa, Hippocrepis ciliata and comosa, Vi- 

 cia triflora, Paronychia argentea, Helichrysum Stwchas, Thymus 

 vulgaris (a variety with a lemon scent), Plantago Lagopus and 

 albicans, Mercurialis tomentosa, Asphodelus fistulosus, and a small 

 variety of A. ramosus. I have hardly anywhere seen Ranunculus 

 repens so magnificent. The following were new to me, in Spain 

 at least: — an Adonis, I believe A. microcarpa; Papaver hybridum 

 in profusion ; the richly-coloured Glaucium corniculatum {oiYiGY- 

 w'lse phoeniceum), a plant also of Avignon; a cruciferous siliculose 

 plant of dried-up appearance, not unlike in aspect to an advanced 

 state of Alyssum campestre or calycinum, but which proved on 

 examination to be Berteroa incana ; a tall Reseda allied to lutea, 

 I believe R. fruticulosa ; to Hippocrepis ciliata was added a larger 

 species, with pods similarly jointed and scooped out, H. unisili- 

 quosa ; the spreading Hedypnois polyniorjjha, with its clumsy ' 

 club-like peduncles; the red-flowered and downy-coated Cyno- 

 glossum cheirifolium, one of the handsomest of its tribe ; a fine 

 dark-flowered Teucrium, not in the French Flora, — I made it 



N. S. VOL. V. 2 u 



