340 Botanical Notices from Spain. Length of the Intes'inal Canal. ft. in. Small intestines 8 Large ditto 1 5i Caecum 1^ The csecum is of a conic figure with the fundus constricted. The liver extends from the right hypochondriac to the right lum-bar region^ and is nearly hidden behind the stomach. The upper surface of the right lobe adhered in this specimen firmly to the corresponding surface of diaphragma ; it is of very reduced size. The gall-bladder is of a cylindric^ pyriform shape^ three-quarters of an inch in length. The spleen is small, triangular, somewhat flattened, measuring one inch in length, and five-eighths in its broadest diameter. The pancreas is linear, flattened, two inches in length, three-sixteenths in diameter. Costse verse seven, spurise five = twelve pairs. XLVI. — Botanical Notices from Spain. By MORITZ WiLLKOMM*. [Continued from p. 270.] No. XII. Granada, August 10, 1845. Some miles to the east of Granada lies an extensive mountain tract, consisting of limestone, which bears the name of Montes de Gra-nada, and is formed of several mountain-chains, which have various names, although they constitute one and the same range. The Sierra de Alfacar forms the western limit of the mountains of Gra-nada, with which the Sierra de Jarana lying behind it, about 7000 feet high, runs parallel ; this is the highest part of the whole range, and forms its northern limit. With this is connected on the north several lower mountain-ranges, as the Sierra del Rallo and Sierra de las Navas, which divide the provinces of Granada and Jaen ; whilst in the south, the Sierra de Jarana and the Sierra de Molinillo, and that of Alfacar pass over into the rocky Sierra de Huetor, both which are separated from the outliers of the Sierra Nevada partly by the valley of the Darro, and partly by the Rio Aucharon. This many-branched mountain district, whose vegetation varies remarkably in its different parts, divides the noble Vega de Granada from the bar-ren and arid high plains of Guadix, and the basin of the Jenil from that of the upper Guadalquivir. I have examined this interesting district in all its parts, during several excursions, and will here en-deavour to give in short sketches as true a picture as possible of its rich vegetation. The greatest part of the whole mountain-chain is quite barren ; and in the broad hollow between the Sierra de Alfacar and the first chain of the Sierra de Jarana, as well as in the valleys and ravines * Translated from the Botanische Zeitung, Jan. 16, 1846.
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