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42_36 Algiers, N. Africa. between the place and Algiers, Spain, which is only two or three miles away. Today (JAnuary 17) we are steaming eastwards through the MEditerranean, the dark and lofty Atlas Mountains rising apparently abruptly from the shores of Morocco. When I think of the Atlas Mountains I am inclined to think of Cedrus atlantica which is there endemic. We arrived in the Bay of Algiers Sunday evening and went ashore early Monday morning. The city rises in terraces from the bay shores to the hills behind. It has a decidedly French aspect on account of its buildings. We went to the American Consulate, then to call on the Edgar Phillips, relations of the Olneys, |
42_37 Jan. 18, 1926 or rather of Mary McClaine Olney of Berkeley. Then to the Botanic Garden (Jordan d' Essai) which is Trabut's scene of work. The place is filled with three bamboo, palms, cocoa plumosa, Ficus religiosa or Banyan Tree, and a good many other trees which I did not recognize. Araucaria excelsa is very open-headed. The LEguminous tree with the curious compressed elliptic pod, of which I secured specimens in the Madeira Islands, is here developing into a fine tree. There is one very fine tree, or rather individual much larger than the rest, of Ficus religiosa which has aerial roots that have reached the ground and formed buttresses or supports. There is also a very fine avenue |
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