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less, quite in a winterly dress. Under these trees blossomed Helle- 
borus fetidus, L., and Daphne Laureola, L., in great numbers. 
From this valley we came to the highest ridges of the chain, which 
are broad, partly quite naked, and in parts covered with Piilotri- 
chum spinosum, Boiss., Arenaria tetraquetra, L., Anthyllis Erinacea, 
L., Genista aspalathoides, DC., Juniperus phenicea, L., and other al- 
pine shrubs, all as yet without blossoms. In clefts of the Penon de 
los Enamorados, an isolated rock, I found for the first time the pretty 
gold-flowered Draba hispanica, Boiss., which occurs plentifully on 
all the summits of this chain, and does not descend lower than 6000 
feet. The upper ridges of the chain were still in part covered with 
snow. Ata depressed spot, which derives the name of Hoya del 
Tejo from a large tree of Tarus baccata, L., I met with some few 
specimens of Bulbocodium vernum, L., in flower, near the edge of the 
melting snow in places thoroughly saturated with the snow water. 
Towards five o’clock in the afternoon we came to a basin of water, 
lying among limestone rocks and surrounded by very old pinsapos 
and alpine oaks, called El Pilar de Tolox, where we resolved to spend 
the night. Whilst my companions were engaged in preparing for 
our bivouac, I ascended alone the highest summit of the mountain 
Las Plazoletas, at whose northern foot lies the Pilar de Tolox at a 
height of about 7000 feet. There were few flowers, except Viola 
Demetria, Lithospermum incrassatum, Guss., and Draba hispanica on 
this giant mountain, the only locality of the Pyrethrum Arundanum, 
Boiss., which blossoms in August, and was discovered here by Pro- 
longo. After a night passed merrily by the light of a large watch- 
fire, we started the following morning through a valley filled with 
beautiful pinsapo-woods, towards the Loma de la Alcazaba, a lofty 
mountain-ridge, which forms the eastern boundary of the above- 
mentioned central high table-lands, and on which grow Taraxacum 
obovatum, T. levigatum, Lithospermum incrassatum, Narcissus Jon- 
quilla, Gageua polymorpha, Draba hispanica, Veronica precox, Lamium 
amplexicaule var. inapertum, Boiss., Androsace maxima, L., Viola ar- 
vensis, V. Demetria, and a small yellow Alyssum in profusion; and, 
less frequent, Thlaspi Prolongi, Boiss., Viola parvula, Guss., and a 
small very white woolly alpine form of Cynoglossum cheirifolium, L. ; 
and thence over the Cerro de los Pilones, overgrown with Salvia 
officinalis, towards the Puerto de las tres Cruzes, where I found Bul- 
bocodium vernum for the second time, on the edge of the melting 
snow.- From this pass we descended to the Hoya de la Caridad, a 
hollow surrounded by limestone rocks, in the clefts of which Thlaspi 
Prolongi occurred in tolerable plenty ; and from hence through a val- 
ley filled with luxuriant pinsapos, towards an immense mass of rocks, 
called Tajo de Pedro Munoz, in the vicinity of which I found on the 
boggy meadow land Narcissus pseudo-narcissus, L., in great plenty. 
From this point we returned to Yunquera, traversing a lofty moun- 
tain-pass, through a narrow rocky valley, which bears the name of 
Las Angusturas de los Corales, where Viola Demetria and Draba 
verna occur plentifully, and Lepidium heterophyllum, Bth., rarely. 
The environs of Malaga present at this season of the year a very 
