302 FAUNA AND FLORA OF PALESTFKE. 



1 6. Scditni paUrstimnu. Boiss. Diagn. Ser. i., x., p. 18. 

 Mount Carmel, Lebanon above the Cedars, Gilead, Moab. P. 



17. Scdiim ccspitosum. (Cav. Icon., pi. 69, f. 2.) 



Sandy and rocky districts, Northern Palestine. Area, Mediterranean 

 coast region. 



1 8. Scdnui rubcns. L. Sp. 619. 



Lebanon. Area, Central and Southern Europe, North Africa, 



Canaries. 



19. Tcbnissa viicrocarpa. (Sm. Prodr. Fl. Gr. i., p. 217.) 

 Hills about Jerusalem, South Judaea, Moab. 



ORDER LL/ CACTACE/E. 



1. Opuntia vulgaris. Mill. Diet., ed. 8, No. i. {Cactus Opnntia. 

 L. Sp. 669.) Prickly Pear. 



Overruns the whole lower country in sandy places, being used as a 

 hedo-e for enclosures, and is one of the most conspicuous features in the 

 flora of modern Palestine. It is of American origin, but it is now natu- 

 ralized in all the Mediterranean region. 



2. Opnntia cocJiincUiJcra. (L. Sp. 670.) 



This, the Cochineal Cactus, on which lives the female cochineal insect, 

 which, when dried, forms the cochineal dye, has also become naturalized, 

 especially on Mount Ebal, and in the neighbourhood of Samaria. It is a 

 native of tropical America. 



ORDER LI., DROSERACE^. 



I. Droscra rotnndifolia. L. Sp. 402. Sundew. 

 Area, Northern and Central Europe. 



ORDER LIL, SAXIFRAGACEvE. 



I. Saxifraga tridactylites. L. Sp. 5 78. 



Galilee, Lebanon, Anti-Lebanon. Area, Europe, North Africa, 

 Siberia. 



