Botanical Notices from Spain. 269 
Guajar Faraguit, and Guajar Alto. From the valley of the Guadalfeo 
the road ascends to the Sierra de las Almijarras over the Cuesta de 
Lacebada, a steep rocky slope, on which I found among other plants 
Thymus longiflorus, Boiss., Allium Ampeloprasum, L., and Haplophy!- 
lum linifolium ? Juss. In the valley dividing the two mountain-chains, 
which narrows into a deep rocky defile between the villages of Gua- 
jar Faraguit and Guajar Alto, occurred in tolerable plenty upon the 
drift-sand a pretty Helianthemum and a viscous Silene, and also 
among a variegated and thick shrubby vegetation Rhamnus velutinus, 
Boiss., and near the village of Guajar Alto the splendid Salvia Can- 
delabrum, Boiss., in full flower, although very rare. It forms shrubs 
from four to six feet high. Above the village of Guajar Alto grew 
luxuriantly the beautiful Ononis speciosa, Lag., in the greatest plenty ; 
and in the broad rocky mountain-chain through which my path from 
hence led me, occurred Brassica humilis, DC., Dianthus brachyanthus, 
Boiss., Anthyllis tejedensis, Boiss., the very rare Reseda Gayana, 
Boiss., Campanula mollis, L., C. Léfflingii, Bert., Helianthemum atri- 
plicifolium, W., Cistus ladaniferus, L. &c. On the hilly, stony and 
barren high table-land between the Sierra de las Almijarras, the 
Sierra Nevada and the plain of Granada, Cleonia lusitanica, L., blos- 
somed in immense quantities, covering large tracts of ground, and in 
the corn-fields Turgenia latifolia, DC., in company with Remeria hy- 
brida, DC., Saponaria Vaccaria, L., Agrostemma Githago, L., and 
other plants. 
The environs of Granada were still clothed in the most luxuriant 
green of spring and formed a magical contrast with the Sierra Ne- 
vada, which was still deeply covered with snow. Whilst on the 
coast the harvest had already begun, the young corn was here still 
green, and the hills, which in the summer are arid and brown, now 
appeared clothed with T’hymus tenuiflorus, Boiss., Th. Mastichina, L., 
and other aromatic plants in bloom, diffusing a balsamic perfume 
far around. At present, although little more than a fortnight later, 
the Veya and the whole environs have already another appearance, 
and the beautiful green is limited to a few moist tracts. The Sierra 
Nevada on the other hand is still in its winter’s garb, and it is as yet 
impossible to ascend to its higher part, for in the memory of man 
such a great fall of snow has never been known as in the past winter ; 
Granada even and Veya were buried two feet deep in the snow ! 
The grassy declivities of the valley of the Darro are clothed at this 
season with a variegated carpet of flowers. Helianthemum marifolium, 
P., H. gutiatum, P., and other species of this numerous genus; a 
pretty white Armeria, common throughout the hilly land and the lower 
part of the Sierra Nevada, as well as in the mountains east of the 
town ; a Dianthus, various Linarie, Antirrhinum molle, L., and others 
occur in the same localities in plenty, whilst on the banks of shady 
ditches, especially along the aqueduct of the Alhambra (rich in 
plants), flower Colutea media, L., Ononis speciosa, Lag., Tamus com- 
munis, L., Agrimonia Eupatorium, L., Lythrum Salicaria, L., Lapsana 
communis, L., Iris feetidissima, L., Medicago Helix, L., Med. lupulina 
var. Willdenovii, Mérat, Spartium junceum, and many other plants. 
