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A fortnight later the travellers met the locusts on the same pla- 

 teau, but a little further west. 



"On the 11th of April the country folks were all occupied -vs-ith the harvest. 

 The wheat was not quite ripe, but the advanced parties of the dreaded assailants had 

 reached its green stalks, and it was necessaiy to make haste to anticipate them by 

 removing the ears, leaving them only the stubble. They had increased in size to an 

 incredible extent, and, heaped together as they were, looked most disgusting. 

 Though only half as long as the finger, they were nearly full grown ; but as they 

 were not yet able to use their wings, their mode of advance was by moving one leg 

 leisurely after the other, rather walking slowly than springing. Even the wall and 

 ditch of the town with diflSculty kept them out. Travellers enquire M'ith curiosity, 

 what is the meaning of the white belt of smooth plaster which runs round the city 

 wall, about its mid height, and learn with surprise, that it is intended to stop the 

 locusts, who can easily ascend a rough wall, but are stopped by a perfectly smooth 

 surface." 



The most destructive locust of Cyprus belongs not to the genus 

 Acridium, but to Stauronotus, (S. cruciatus). It lays its eggs not in 

 cultivated land, but in waste places. The young insects are hatched 

 about 21st March, cast their skins four times, becoming winged at 

 the last change. 



"With regard to all branches of the botany of the island, the' infor- 

 mation in the work before us is much more complete. The climate 

 is certainly not favourable to Cryptogamous plants, which, however, 

 seem to have been assiduously collected by Unger, in whose depart- 

 ment, as we have seen, they were included. One new Diatom and a 

 new Palmella are figured, and the list contains 29 Diatoms, 31 

 Algae, 2 Charae, 15 Eungi, of which one Agaric is new to science, 

 82 Lichens, 4 Hepaticae, 77 Mosses, of which six are new species ; 2 

 Equiseta, both English species, and 11 Ferns, seven of which are 

 English, and widely diffused over Europe and Asia; the other four 

 being Gymnogramma leptophylla, Noihochlaena Marantae, Cheilanthes 

 fragrans, and Nephrodium pallidum. 



The list of flowering plants contains about 1000 species, of which, 

 however, between 90 and 100 are only known in a state of culti- 

 vation. They are all carefully determined by Kotschy. Some of our 

 English botanists might think that there is a slight tendency (it is, 

 however, certainly very moderate in amount) to over-estimate the 

 number of species in some of the more variable genera. The list, 

 which may be regarded as tolerably complete, occupies 220 of the 

 600 pages of which the work consists, and is a most valuable contri- 

 bution to our knowledge t)f Mediterranean botany. Dr. Kotschy has 



