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region extends, is almost entirely covered with thorny shrubs, of the 
Berberis vulgaris, L., var. australis, Crategus granatensis, Boiss., 
Prunus Ramburei, Boiss., Rhamnus infectorius, L., and Cerasus pro- 
strata, DeC., which forms small and very entangled and stiff shrubs, 
from half a foot to three foot high, and is found as far as the highest 
summit of the Dornajo, where, creeping up the loose rocks, it covers 
them like a kind of moss. In very isolated spots, under the thorny 
shrub, grows the beautiful Lonicera splendida, Boiss., which is di- 
stinguished from L. Caprifolium, L., and L. implexa, Ait. (to which it 
is nearest allied), partly by the many-flowered racemes, and partly by 
the white dust on the under side of the evergreen leaves and of the 
young branches. The berries are oval, large and orange-coloured. 
L. etrusca, Santi, is found in the neighbourhood of brooks, in shady 
bushes, generally in company with the Clematis Flammula, L. On 
the banks of the Monachil I found frequent the Rumex pulcher, Li, 
Delphinium pentagynum, Desf., Thalictrum glaucum, Desf., Nepeta 
granatensis, Boiss., Junci, Huphorbie, and two Resede; in the upper 
part of the valley, Heracleum granatense, Boiss., with Cochlearia 
glastifolia, L., and Aspidium nevadense, Boiss. The shady-clefts of 
the rocks are decorated with patches of the delicate and fragile 
Linaria villosa, DeC., and L. verticillata, Boiss., along with Hiera- 
cium amplezicaule, L.; whilst on the sunny limestone and marble 
rocks of the southern declivity are found the pretty Campanula Leff- 
lingit, Brot., in company with Putoria calabrica, T., several Teucria 
and others. 
Among those portions of the limestone alps which are the most 
celebrated as producing the rarest plants, the Dornajo and Cerro 
Trevenque occupy undoubtedly the first place. The latter, above 
7000 feet high, presents a huge pyramid of rock, and is seldom as- 
cended by the inhabitants of the mountain on account of its extra- 
ordinary steepness. I ascended it on the 7th of August, accompa- 
nied by my servant. We first followed the steep bed of a rivulet 
filled with blocks of marble, which contributes the waters of its little 
stream to the Monachil, and soon saw ourselves surrounded with 
some isolated pines, which announced the Cartejuela. In this copse- 
wood, which is scarcely to be called thick, as well as in the ascent, 
I found frequent the tender Reutera gracilis, Boiss., of the habitus 
of an Asperula, as well as the Peonia coriacea, Boiss., which is not 
rare on the Dehesa, S. Geronimo, and even around the Cortijo. 
When we had reached the plateau, about 6000 feet, I first ascended 
the Cerro Tesoro, lying on the right, and of a not much greater ele- 
vation, whose entire northern declivity is covered with Anthyllis 
erinacea (common throughout the whole limestone alps) and a thorny 
Astragalus. Besides the Passerina Tartouruira, L., which is here 
very small-leaved, Anthyllis tejedensis, Boiss., and Ononis cephalotus, 
Boiss., the vegetation consists of the same plants as I had already 
found on the Dornajo. The Odontites longiflora, Webb, is found, as 
well as on the Dornajo, from the base to the summit; in the clefts of 
the rocks grow on both mountains Potentilla caulescens, L., forming 
hard thick beds, in company with Arenaria Armeriasirum, Boiss., 
