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Ajuga Pseudo-iva, DC., Lepidium subulatum, L., the elegant Helian- 
themum squamatum, P., and the remarkable Ononis crassifolia, Duf., 
and also Artemisia, Chenopodie, and Salsolacee. 
The northern and eastern margin of this broad basin, which still 
belongs to the province of Granada, is formed by the lofty limestone 
range of the province of Almeria, whose average height is about 
6000 feet, and whose branches stretch into the neighbouring king- 
dom of Murcia. Close to the boundaries of the kingdoms of Gra- 
nada, Jaen and Murcia, lies the highest point of this many-branched 
chain, the Sagra de Huescar, nearly 8000 feet high, an immense 
conical limestone mountain, which is connected by a low thickly- 
wooded mountain-chain with three lofty limestone chains running 
west and east, the Sierra de Maria, Sierra de Velez-Blanco, and Sierra 
de Oria. The most important of these three mountain-chains, in a 
botanical point of view, is the Sierra de Maria, which, according to 
the trigonometrical measurement of Clemente, is nearly 7000 feet 
high; it takes its name from the hamlet of Maria lying at its north- 
eastern foot, where I staid for a week. This descends, like all 
mountain-chains going parallel to it, towards the north in steep 
rocks, -nd is covered on its northern base with woods of Pinus Pi- 
naster, in which Cistus laurifolius, L., Helianthemum halimifolium, 
Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi, Salvia officinalis and other shrubs occur in 
great profusion. Of herbaceous plants, I found in these woods 
Vincetoxicum nigrum, Schult., Teucrium Webbianum, Boiss., Nepeta 
Nepetella, DC., Rubia Tinctorum, L., Bunium Macuca, Boiss., Cen- 
taurea granatensis, Boiss., in plenty; more rarely Telephium Imperati, 
L., and Dictamnus Fraxinella, L. In the shady rocky valleys of this 
side, especially in the romantic Barranco Agrio, stretching up into 
the alpine region, I again met with some alpine trees of the Sierra 
Nevada, namely Lonicera arborea, Boiss., Sorbus Aria, L., and Acer 
opulifolium, Vill., under whose shade on moist loose rocky soil Ge- 
ranium lucidum, L., Smyrnium perfoliatum, Mill., and other umbellife- 
rous plants, as well as the beautiful Scopolina atropoides, Schult., grew 
in luxuriant profusion. The clefts of the rugged limestone rocks of the 
alpine region were filled with thick beds of numerous alpine plants ; 
amongst others, the delicate Stachys circinnata, L’Hér, Hypericum 
Ericoides, L., just beginning to flower, Hieracium saxatile, Vahl., a 
beautiful and perhaps new Globularia with woody stem and coriaceous, 
stiff, thorny-serrate leaves, an Arenaria with elliptical, grayish-green, 
almost succulent leaves and large white flowers, forming much inter- 
laced and fragile patches, a stemless, white, woolly Centaurea with 
orange-coloured flowers, a Silene, and many others; and at the foot 
of the same rocks I observed Senecio quinqueradiatus, Boiss., Rumex 
pulcher, L., and the beautiful Andryala Agardhii, Boiss., in full flower. 
In shady clefts of the highest rocks I found EHrinus alpinus, L., Ptilo- 
trichum longicaule, Boiss., and a splendid Saxifraga, growing in most 
luxuriant beds, with large blossoms and succulent, serrate, viscous 
leaves ; also on the highest ridges Hrodium trichomanefolium, L’ Hér., 
_ Anthyllis Webbiana, Hook., Sideritis scordioides, L., var. vestita, Boiss., 
Arenaria tetraquetra, L., and a number of alpine shrubs, as Ptilotri- 
