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ed a beautiful little uninhabited island, h iug in the mouth of 
the bay. It consists of a single mountain covered with an ex¬ 
uberant vegetation, and full of mosquitoes, “ wheeling their 
droning flight,” sole tenants of the wilderness, with the excep¬ 
tion of a few rabbits. The aromatic odour exhaled from the 
shrubs and herbs whereby it is completely mantled, is full as 
powerful as is the. scented atmosphere of Rhodes. A few soli¬ 
tary graves of unknown persons appeared near the shore; con¬ 
taining, probably, the bodies of British seamen, -who had fallen 
victims to the pestilential air of the gulph, during their station 
here. We added to the number of the animals found upon it, 
by losing four out of the fourteen sheep put on shore by our 
crew, to graze while we remained at anchor. Neither ancient 
nor modern geographers have bestowed any name upon this isl¬ 
and : this is the more remarkable, as it affords a very impor¬ 
tant landmark for vessels entering the gulph. Its lofty conical 
form, resembling those sepulchral mounds erected by ancient 
nations as monuments of departed heroes, together with its situ¬ 
ation, surrounded by colossal monuments of the dead, not ill 
befits it for a natural cenotaph. It may therefore bear the 
name of Abercrombie, whose deathless glory, green as the 
perennial foliage by which it is invested, will flourish to the end 
scrophularia canina. We have called it scrophularia silaifolta. Scrophularia 
glabra, foliis tripinna tijidis laciniis angustis aevtis : panicula i mnnali longissivio. 
II. A non descript species of las rpiiiwn , the lower leaves of which are from eight 
inches to a foot or more in length, and from two to three inches across where they 
are broadest, having nearly the general outline of an ostrich feather, except in be¬ 
ing less flattened, and more attenuated upward • their segments repeatedly subdi¬ 
vided, till they become as fine as threads ; the leaves on the stem have the same 
outline, but their segments are more distant from each other. The stems are 
smooth; and vary, in the specimens we saw, from a foot to more than two feet in 
height. The umbels have from eight to twelve rays, and measure from two to 
four inches over; their partial umbels are small, and crowded with flowers: the 
petals yellow. We have called this very beautiful plant laserpitium elegans. 
Laserpitium foliis decornpositis circumscriptions oblongo plumiformibus, laciniis sub- 
sr.taccis mucronaiis glabris : petiolis glabris striatis : involucri laciniis elongatis apice 
tenuissmis: umbeilis hemisphcericis. 
III. A 1.0 >descript species of veibascum, from five to six feet high, the stem erect, 
shrubby, and a little cottony, as well as the leaves, which are from an inch and a 
half to two inches or more in length; the lowermost attenuated downward into 
long footstalks, the uppermost sessile. The bunches of flowers on the smaller 
plants eight to ten inches long, nearly simple, on large plants eighteen inches of 
more in length, very much branched, and twiggy; the flowers yellow, about an 
inch in diameter; the filaments -woolly toward the base, and one of them always 
shorter than the rest. We have named this species verbasgum strictum. Ver- 
basvm cau 1 e frniicoso ereefo, foliis inferioribus spahdato-ovatis petiolatis, superioribus 
cva'o-lanceolelis obsolctissimi dentatis integerrimisve sessilibus : omnibus pilis stellatis 
cants emtih us , muticis : racemo elongalo: pcdicellis calijce longioribus divaricatis. 
JV* A nondescript shrubby species of hyptriewrt, with upright stems, from one to 
two feet high; the largest leaves little more than an inch in length: the flowers of 
a golden yellow, small, with petals doublethe length of the calyx. We havecalled 
it Hypericum virgatum. Hypericum,frvticosum fioribus trigynis, calycibus obtusis , 
glandnloso-ciliatis: racemis cavlibus gracilibus quintupld brevioribus, temnnalibus: 
foliis internpdiis , Iongipribuserect op atulis, punctatis , nudis , subtus glands; infmorifois 
tpatplajp-obhiips : svperipribys lipearfbus margins revolytis. 
