...Lagasca, was immediately recognised by him as an old acquaintance, and pronounced to be the S. fulgens of Cavanilles; in Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland's...hundred and twenty feet above the level of the sea ; it certaiuly is a plant that ought to be in every collection, as it requires so little care, wanting...

...break, and a splendid scene opened upon us. The insulated mountain, rising up into a peak of seven thousand four hundred and twenty feet above the level of the sea, flanked on one side by lofty ridges, and on the other by a champaign country stretching to the shore,...