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growth of Cedars is near the northern end of the Lebanon Mts. 
Dr. Post had also seen them in the range to the north called 
Amanus ; there are none in the hill country of Palestine, and 
none reported from Anti-Lebanon. They now grow in Cyprus, 
and were formerly in the Taurus Range. The largest seen by 
Dr. Post were 42 feet in circumference. 
(4.) The Valley. The flora of this deep cleft resembles that 
of Nubia; only a few species are peculiar. The Dead Sea is 
surrounded by very high mountains, and appears to contain no 
life of any kind. Dr. Post had not observed even Alge. 
(5.) The Deserts, whose flora is quite similar to that of neigh- 
boring deserts. 
(6.) The Great Interior Plain, whose flora is very different 
from any west of the mountains, and very - -highly specialized. 
This stretches eastward to the Euphrates. 
* Dr. Post stated that the whole territory under ecinkidefadon 
was not larger than the State of New York, yet 3,500 Phanero- 
gams occurred, against some 1,800 in New York. There are 
only 20 ferns. The largest natural order is Leguminose, next — 
Compositz, and next Umbellifere. Dr. Post has two papers in 
_ preparation on undescribed plants from Syria, which will be pub- 
lished in the Reports of the Palestine Exploration Fund and the 
_ Victoria Institute of London. 
Mr. R. Demcker exhibited a remarkably perfect Spadix of 
Cocos nucifera, and a large woody fruit probabil : of 
_ Lecythis, from the Isthmus of Panama. — 
Mr. Hogg distributed specimens of wi! 
lanceolatus, and Lechea major, L. minor ar 
Eaton’s Neck, Long Island. 
Dr. Newberry remarked on the one inds of fruits now in 
market, and distributed a variety o C 
Persimmons. He stated that many. varieti 
ywered Cyicus 
maritima, from 
Some of those exhibited were as large as and 
of a Tomiatos s/s + a 
Mr. Hogg sid that the arg 
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