On our return we found awaiting us a small addition to our Marocco
herbarium. With the kind assistance of Mr. Carstensen, we had
arranged during our first visit that two natives, who had received
a first lesson in the art of drying plants, should start for Agadir
early in May, and should bring back whatever plants they could then
find in flower. The collection, which we now shared between us, was
not of much importance, including, as it did, but a single species
not found by us. We doubted, at the time whether the men had, as
they solemnly asserted, really reached the neighbourhood of Agadir;
but we have now reason to believe that the vegetation of the coast
region from Mogador southward to about the twenty-ninth parallel
of latitude is very uniform.
Since our return from Marocco our friend M. Cosson, with the active
assistance of the late M. Beaumier, has succeeded in engaging the
services of two native collectors, one of them a very intelligent
Jew, the other a Shelluh mountaineer. From the former large
collections from the country as far south as the borders of Oued
Noun, and as far east as the oasis of Akka, have been sent to Paris;
and the latter has contributed a few additions to the flora of the
Great Atlas, along with many of the species collected by us. With
his accustomed liberality, M. Cosson has sent us duplicates of
these fresh contributions to the flora of Marocco.
In the afternoon of June 4, we went to pay a farewell visit to
the banks of the Oued Kseb, which had been the scene of our first
botanical excursion in South Marocco. During the interval of
six weeks a great change had passed over the vegetation; most of
the annuals were completely dried up and had disappeared; but the
excursion was not altogether unproductive, and we were able to add
a few plants to our collections.
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