40 BOTANY OF SPAIN. {February, 



Of Cichoraceous Composites, I noticed Scorzonera humilis, Tra- 

 gopogon pratensis, a Hieracium {H. muroi'um?), the fine blue 

 Lactuca of Continental cornfields, which almost reaches our own 

 latitudes, L. perennis, and two much rarer plants, both of which 

 T only found within a short ^distance of Urgel, one in the bed of 

 the torrent, a stiff, widely branched plant, coated all over Avith a 

 fine white wool, which I guessed rather than ascertained to be 

 Andryala maci'ocephala of Boissier; and, growing within the spray 

 of a waterfall, a Sonchus, with undivided leaves, allied to S. ma- 

 rithnus, which was certainly S. crassifolius. 



Passing now to the Corolliflorce, I did not find in this day's jour- 

 ney either Gentianece or Primulaceoi, plants which, for the most 

 part, require higher elevations, or at least cooler and moister 

 valleys. Vincetoxicum officinale, so abundant on calcareous soils, 

 even far north, and which ought to grow in England, was there ; 

 so also Privet {Ligustrum vulgare), a plant equally at home in 

 north and south ; and the only European Jasminum, J. fraticans, 

 a yellow species, and rather frequent in the south of France, but 

 not beyond the Mediterranean region. Our northern Ash, Frax- 

 inus excelsior, grows here, which, in the south, is principally a 

 mountain tree. I saw no Convolvulus, except C. ar'vensis, though 

 I should have expected C. cantabrica, which comes up as high, 

 or higher, in other southern mountains. The Boraginece were 

 not remarkable : Echium vulgare, Lithospermum arvense and offi- 

 cinale, Anchusa italica, Lycopsis arvensis, and our common Cy- 

 noglossum, C. officinale. The Solanece were Solanum Dulcamara, 

 as common in the south as in the north, and Hyoscyamus niger. 

 There were several Verbascums, V.floccosum apparently being one. 

 ^cropliularinecR and Labiatce were, as might be expected, the most 

 numerous Orders ; of the former there were Scrophularia canina 

 and nodosa, Rhinanthus glaber, Veronica Teucrium and serpylli- 

 folia, the stately Digitalis lutea, Linaria supina, and two Antir- 

 rhinums proper — the pale-flowered A. Asarina, which, as in many 

 other parts of the Pyrenees, hangs like tapestry on the perpendi- 

 cular rocks, and A. latifolium, looking like a yellow variety of 

 majus. The Labiatee were Lavandula Spica and Mentha syhestris 

 (the British plant so common in Switzerland), Salvia clandestina, 

 and another (I believe phlomoides) , our ugly Ballota foetida, 

 Laniium maculatum, Stachys recta, which, like Digitalis lutea, 



