330 BOTANY OF SPAIN. [November, 



out to be T. thymifolium ; lastly, a tiny grass, with a round, rather 

 prickly head, Echinaria capitata. 



At Lerida my botanizing was limited to a single field, but in 

 that small space (besides Alyssuni calycinura and the beautiful 

 Anchusa italica of our gardens, a common cornfield plant in 

 Spain and all over southern Europe as high up as Burgundy on 

 the east and La Vendee on the Avest) I found four plants which 

 I did not see elsewhere in Spain ; two species of Silene, S. conica, 

 and the rarer, more stately, and larger-floAvered S. conoidea ; a 

 less handsome, not to say ugly, Boragineous plant, Nonnea ven- 

 tricosa, one of the roughest of its rough tribe, without the usual 

 lustrous beauty of their flowers ; and the rather vulgar-looking 

 sister of an otherwise most elegant race, Malcolmia africana. 



Between Lerida and Tarragona I saw from the diligence the 

 following plants, scattered in abundance over the country: — Roe- 

 meria hybrida, Lepidium Draba, Cistus (if I mistake not) umbel- 

 latus, Ulex parviflorus, Convolvulus altkcBoides, Cytiofflossum chei- 

 rifolium, Mercurialis tomentosa, a Gladiolus, and the blue Aphyl- 

 lanthes monspeliensis . To these I will subjoin the following, 

 which seemed universal in the parts of Spain which I have bota- 

 nically visited : — Adonis autumnalis, Lychnis vespertina, Agro- 

 stemnia Githago, Vicia saliva, Scandix Peclen- Veneris, Maruta 

 Cotula, Podospermum laciniatum, Hieracium sylvaticum, or some 

 of the many species (or supposed species) allied to it, Anchusa 

 italica, Lycopsis arvensis, Lithospermum arvense and officinale, 

 Plantago Coronopus and lanceolata. And here ends Spanish bo- 

 tanizing, with the exception of a visit to Monserrat, and two 

 days at the end of May in the Spanish Pyrenees, of which I 

 will endeavour to give some account in a future number of the 

 ' Phytologist/ 



THE EESULTS OF A DAY'S BOTANIZING NEAE METHVEN, 

 PERTHSHIRE. 



By Francis B. W. White. 



First, near the village of Pitcairn, Campanula rapunculoides 

 grows by the roadside, where the hedges are festooned with So- 

 lanum Dulcamara, Vicia Cracca, Lathyrus jJvatensis, and other 

 climbing plants. 



