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southern declivity is still poorer in plants than the central part of 
Trevelez, and gathered only one new plant, viz. the rare Hrodium 
trichomanefolium, L’Hérit., which grows pretty plentifully on boul- 
ders of mica on the broad and high coombe between the Puerto de 
Jeres and Puerto del Lobo, but seldom blossoms. 
On the 18th of September I quitted Trevelez, with the hope of 
obtaining a richer harvest in other parts of the Alpujarras; but in 
this hope I was soon deceived ; for the further I went towards the 
south, all was parched under the summer sun. Except Carlina co- 
rymbosa, Picnomon Acarna, Chamepeuce hispanica, Antirrhinum molle, 
Senecio linifolius, Helichrysum serotinum, Artemisia campestris, Bu- 
pleurum spinosum, Althea cannabina, Centaurea Calcitrapa and sal- 
mantica,—plants which are especially common on the limestone for- 
mation and which I had already collected,—I observed in the valleys 
of the limestone mountains between Trevelez, Notaéz, and Orgiva 
only Scilla maritima, L., in blossom, and on the perfectly arid lime- 
stone in the neighbourhood of Notaéz, some bushes of the beautiful 
Lavatera oblongifolia, Boiss. Even the environs of the charmingly 
situated baths of Lanjaron presented, with the exception of some 
salt-plants growing around the mineral springs, little of interest. 
There were in blossom Samolus Valerandi, L., Erythrea maritima ?, 
Statice globulariefolia, Desf., and a Linum ; whilst on the arid lime- 
stone rocks in the neighbourhood of the town grow the sweet- 
smelling Balsamita malta, Clem. (according to Boissier’s ‘ Voyage’ 
Tanacetum annuum, L. ?), and in some fissures of the rock, but very 
rarely and not in blossom, the Lapiedra Martinezii, Lag. On per- 
pendicular limestone rocks at Orgiva and between Lanjaron and 
Granada I for the first time met with the rare Brassica moricandioides, 
Boiss., with thick, round, fleshy, bluish green leaves, with ripe fruit, 
in company with Bupleurum gibraltaricum, Lavandula multifida and a 
Satureja. In order also to ascertain the nature of the vegetation of 
the coast at this season, I made an excursion on the 20th of Sep- 
tember to the town of Motril, distant four leagues from Lanjaron 
and half a league from the coast, which is reached by the romantic 
valley of the Rio Grande, which carries off almost all the water from 
the southern declivity of the Sierra Nevada to the sea. The valleys 
of the Alpujarras possess quite a different character from those of 
the north side, for they are all very wide and the beds of the rivers 
very broad, even and sandy. Their banks, as especially those of the 
Rio Grande, are clothed with thick and high bushes of Arundo Do- 
naz, L., which began to unfold its colossal bunch of blossoms, and 
the beautiful Saccharum Ravenna, L., clothed with its elegant silver 
panicles; in company with which plants are found in profusion the 
Tamariz gallica and Nerium Oleander. Further toward the sea ap- 
pear the Salir alba, S. purpurea, Populus nigra, alba and canescens 
frequent on the banks; Passerina hirsuta, L., which blossoms through- 
out the year; Scilla maritima and Chamerops humilis, which already 
from Orgiva and Lanjaron indicated the neighbourhood of the coast 
and the hot region. On the northern declivity of the last chain of 
hills between the valley of the Rio Grande and the Plain of Motril, 
