114 Botanical Notices from Spain. 
of the Jenil and Darro, and forms an offshoot of the Sierra Nevada. 
The south side of this rock, which consists of disintegrated lime- 
stone, as well as the other hills, is covered with thick bushes of 
Opuntia vulgaris, which are now in flower, and whose fruit yield a 
favourite food to the lower classes. Interspersed are everywhere seen 
the Agave americana, which is here quite wild and very generally now 
in bloom. For instance, I have seen in the environs of the Capella 
San Miguel, on the southern slope of the valley of the Darro, more 
than twenty specimens together in a small space, whose flowering 
stems reached a height of 12 to 20 feet. Both plants ascend in the 
warm valleys of the Sierra Nevada, for instance in that of the Jenil, 
to a height of 3000 feet. Copses of elms, impenetrable hedges of 
Rubus fruticosus *, Bupleurum fruticosum, L., Coriaria myrtifolia, L., 
interspersed with Fouteea etrusca, Santi, Clemiitz cirrhosa, DeC., 
Cl. Flammula, L., and other climbers, clothe the northern slopes of 
the valleys ; whilst the arid, sunny hills, destitute of all shrubby ve- 
getation, are covered with a number of Labiate (several Thymi and 
Teucria, especially T. Polium, L., Ballota hirsuta, Bth., Origanum 
virens, Lk. and Hoffmsegg.), accompanied by several species of 
Ononis, Rubiacee and Composite, as an Andryala, Delphinium pere- 
grinum, L., Ruta montana, Clus., R. angustifolia, L., Antirrhinum 
molle, L., &c. On shady walls—frequent for instance on the walls 
of the Alhambra as well as on the aqueducts—grows the Tra- 
* This Rubus, the only species which I have hitherto met with in Spain, 
but which seems to be everywhere frequent, belongs to the Rubus digitati- 
folis, in the Div. II.** R. candicantes of Reichenbach’s ‘ flora,’ and is 
very different to the R. fruticosus, L., which belongs to the Div. I., as well 
as to the species in Div. II. Boissier enumerates it in his Voyage, under 
No. 601, as &, fruticosus, L., without adding any remark. I regard it as 
new, and propose to call it A. hispanicus. 
R. hispanicus, turionum fol. omnibus quinato-digitatis, foliolis oblongo- 
lanceolatis, caulis floriferi fol. ternatis, foliolis oblongis aut ellipticis, late- 
ralibus szepe bilobis, corymbo composito erecto muitifloro, floribus amplis 
roseis, ¢ calyce fructifero reflexo, mora mediocri atra nitida ex acinis parvis 
numerosis composita, dulcissima. Frutex 12-pedalis et ultra, turionibus 
longissimis decurvatis 5-angularibus subtomentosis infra purpurascentibus 
superne lete-virescentibus, fol. omnibus supra obscure virentibus subtus 
albo-tomentosis, aculeis conformibus recurvis numerosis, calyce peduncu- 
lisque div ergentibus cano-tomentesis, laciniis calycis ovatis ,petalis calyce 
duplo longioribus obovatis roseis. Differt a R. fruticoso, L., foliolis tomen- 
tosis oblongis nec glabris cordato-ovatis, corymbo composito nec simplici, 
turionibus tomentosis decurvatis nec glabris erectis, petalis roseis nec albis ; 
a f. discolore, Whe., cui maxime affinis, foliolis turionum oblongo-lanceo- 
latis nec suborbicularibus, aculeis recurvatis nec rectiusculis, mora aterrima 
nec atro-cerulea.—l! have frequently observed this beautiful species (No. 157 
of ny Spanish Plants), which forms impenetrable and entangled hedges, and 
bears flowers and fruit in uncommon abundance (the bunches of fruit attain 
the length of one foot), around Valencia, in the Sierra de Chiva, in Murcia, in 
the Mancha near Aranjuez, Madrid and Escurial, and in Andalusia, where 
they grow in the valleys of the Sierra Nevada up to a height of 4500 feet, and 
are common, especially in the environs of the village of Guejar. In Anda- 
lusia this /twbus bears the name of ‘ Sarza mora.’ 
