Since Clas Alströmer letter of 6 September 1760{L2763}, the writer has travelled over high, ugly mountains until he can see from his window the highest that is perpetually snow-clad. Although lemon trees are fewer in Granada, pomegranates, figs, mulberries and other fruits abound. The countryside is well cultivated by people who in body and soul are unlike the other Andalusians. The town and its surroundings are well watered.
Alströmer reports with sorrow and a sense of great loss the death in Cadiz of Louis Godin on 11 September.
Croton laccifera grows in abundance in the fields around Seville [probably a mistake for Granada], In Systema naturae, 10th edition its caracter compendiosus should be changed from femineus Calyx 5.phyllus to ployphyllus. Mormordica elaterium is common on fields in Andalusia, especially where manure or refuse has been spread. Alströmer has tried in vain to find a single [specimen] of androgynum, for it is always Dioica here. As promised the description of Schini areirae is as follows […]. Linnaeus may judge its fruit from the enclosed berries. The caracter compendiosus in the Systema naturae, and in Genera plantarum [...] editio quinta, of Cardiospermum should be changed from 3 phyl. to 4 phyl.
Being short of time, the writer advises only that he has sent from Seville via Cadiz and thence by sea a package of plants and another of seeds to Linnaeus. Within a week he travels to Valencia and thence to Madrid, and asks Linnaeus who knows all his friends to greet them from him.