340 Botanical Notices from Spain. 
Length of the Intestinal Canal. 
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The cecum is of a conic figure with the fundus constricted. 
The liver extends from the right hypochondriac to the right lum- 
bar region, and is nearly hidden behind the stomach. The upper 
surface of the right lobe adhered in this specimen firmly to the 
corresponding surface of diaphragma ; it is of very reduced size. 
The gall-bladder is of a cylindric, pyriform shape, three-quarters 
of an inch in length. The spleen is small, triangular, somewhat 
flattened, measurmg one inch in length, and five-eighths im its 
broadest diameter. The pancreas is linear, flattened, two inches 
m length, three-sixteenths in diameter. 
Coste verze seven, spuric five = twelve pairs. 
XLV1I.— Botanical Notices from Spain. 
By Moritz WiLLkommM*. 
{Continued from p. 270.] 
No. XII. Granapa, August 10, 1845. 
Some miles to the east of Granada lies an extensive mountain tract, 
consisting of limestone, which bears the name of Montes de Gra- 
nada, and is formed of several mountain-chains, which have various 
names, although they constitute one and the same range. The 
Sierra de Alfacar forms the western limit of the mountains of Gra- 
nada, with which the Sierra de Jarana lying behind it, about 7000 
feet high, runs parallel; this is the highest part of the whole range, 
and forms its northern limit. With this is connected on the north 
several lower mountain-ranges, as the Sierra del Rallo and Sierra de 
las Navas, which divide the provinces of Granada and Jaen; whilst 
in the south, the Sierra de Jarana and the Sierra de Molinillo, and 
that of Alfacar pass over into the rocky Sierra de Huétor, both which 
are separated from the outliers of the Sierra Nevada partly by the 
valley of the Darro, and partly by the Rio Aucharén. This many- 
branched mountain district, whose vegetation varies remarkably in 
its different parts, divides the noble Vega de Granada from the bar- 
ren and arid high plains of Guadix, and the basin of the Jenil from 
that of the upper Guadalquivir. I have examined this interesting 
district in all its parts, during several excursions, and will here en- 
deavour to give in short sketches as true a picture as possible of its 
rich vegetation. | 
The greatest part of the whole mountain-chain is quite barren ; 
and in the broad hollow between the Sierra de Alfacar and the first 
chain of the Sierra de Jarana, as well as in the valleys and rayines 
* Translated from the Botanische Zeitung, Jan. 16, 1846. 
