116 Botanical Notices from Spain. 
environs of the Bay of Gibraltar covers all the hills almost exclu- 
sively, and is as great a favourite for its perfumed blossoms as it is 
feared for its prickly branches. Everywhere the Cistus albidus, L., 
unfolded its large rosy blossoms, and in addition there were found 
the Teucrium fruticans, L., a thorny Genista, and other shrubs in 
flower. Inthe hedges of pistachio and oak-copses there grew most lux- 
uriantly also Vinca media, Tetragonolobus purpureus, Aristolochia be- 
tica, Borago officinalis, Phaca betica, and Ruta bracteosa; and the 
moist cultivated fields were covered with Scrophularia sambucifolia, 
Reseda luteola, Fedia Cornucopie, Centaurea pullata, &c. ‘The marshy 
lowlands and moors abounded with Asphodelus ramosus ; in the pine- 
woods lying behind Chiclana grew Tulipa Celsiana, DC., and Scilla 
vernalis, Huds., in abundance ; less frequent, on sandy spots, Hro- 
dium Botrys, Bertol. Upon meadows I gathered for the first time 
the pretty Ranunculus flabellatus, Desf., which is very frequent in 
different forms throughout all the hilly district around Cadiz, and 
also is found in the mountains up to a height of 2000 feet. On 
sandy places, amongst low shrubs, I noticed some specimens of Lu- 
pinus luteus, L., which I have nowhere since found; more plentifully 
grew here Ophrys apifera, Huds., Orchis longicornu, Poir., Polygala 
niceensis, Riss., and a low, spreading Reseda. On clayey fields and in 
hedges at Couil I observed Aristolochia longa, L., and on the dry hills 
and in sandy lowlands around Couil, Iris Sisyrinchium flowered in 
great abundance. The hills between Couil, Cape Trafalgar and 
Vejer exhibited a vegetation less rich in species. Large tracts were 
filledwith Leucojum trichophyllum, Brot., and in the numerous marshes 
in the neighbourhood of the Cape, Ranunculus paludosus, Desf. grew 
plentifully. 
The town of Vejer lies on an abrupt rocky hill of sandstone on 
the right bank of the Rio Barbate, which issues from the lofty moun- 
tains of Alcalé de los Gazales, and joins the ocean eastward of Cape 
Trafalgar. On the shady moist sandstone rocks of the mountain and 
the walls of the town, I observed Targionia Michelii and Lunularia 
vulgaris in abundance,—the last without fructification. Between 
Vejer and the sandstone hills of Algeciras, which are connected on 
the north with those of Alcalé, and bound the western shore of the 
Bay of Gibraltar, lie several chains of sandstone hills running parallel 
from north to south, over which the road to Algeciras lies. The 
first of these chains of hills is covered partly with isolated cork-oaks, 
partly with low bushes, among which an Hrica, Vicia biflora, Desf., 
and a pretty Senecio were frequent. J-also gathered here on sandy 
spots Uropetalum serotinum, Ker., Anchusa calcarea, Boiss., a. glabres- 
cens, and Helianthemum guttatum, P., the last in great plenty. ‘The 
second more rocky chain of hills, which bears the name of Puerto de 
Acebuches, is pretty thickly wooded with Olea europea, var. syl- 
vestris, and Quercus suber, on whose boughs Polypodium vulgare is 
very common. On the sandstone rock I remarked here, rare, He- 
lianthemum Tuberaria, P., and in the underwood Genista linifolia, L., 
more frequent. Between these two rows of hills and the mountains 
of Algeciras lies a marshy tract several miles wide, wholly covered 
