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is a large, arborescent hypericum ; a lepidium, 

 which appears identical with that of Virginia ; 

 and lastly, lycopodiaceous plants and mosses, 

 which cover the rocks and roots of the trees. 

 What gives the most celebrity in the country 

 to this small wood is a shrub ten or fifteen feet 

 high, of the corymbiferous family. The Creoles 

 call it incense, incienso *. It's tough and cre- 

 nate leaves, as well as the extremity of the 

 branches, are covered with a white wool. It is 

 a new species of trixis, extremely resinous, the 

 flowers of which have the agreeable odour of 

 storax. This smell is very, different from that 

 emitted by the leaves of the trixis terebinthina- 

 cea of the mountains of Jamaica, opposite to 

 those of Caraccas. The people sometimes mix 

 the incienso of the Silla with the flowers of the 

 pevetera> another composite plant, the smell of 

 which resembles that of the heliotropium of 

 Peru. The p eve t era does not, however, grow on 

 the mountains so high as the zone of the befa- 

 rias ; it vegetates in the valley of Chacao, and 

 the ladies of Caraccas prepare with it an odori- 

 ferous water extremely agreeable. 



We spent a long time in examining the fine 



meifolia, hieracium avilce, aralia arborea Jacp., and lepidium 

 virginicum. Two new species of lycopodium, the thyoides, 

 and the aristatum, are seen lower down toward the Puerta de 

 la Silla. (See our Nov. Gen.et Species Plant. , torn, i, p. 38.) 

 -* Trixis nermfolia of Mr. Bonpland. 



