Appendix I: Botanical Discovery in Egypt. LO7L 
gave them ample opportunities of examining the material upon which 
the publications of their prodecessors were founded. Under such 
adventages, the synonyms and false species incorrectly included by 
previous writers dissapeared, and the Flora assumed more of its real 
proportions and extent. Altogether the Flora contanied 1215 species. 
The value of the work is much enchanced by the Introductory 
Kssay dealing with the affinities and distribution of the species. 
In the same year published Volkens his well-known work: “ive 
Flora der aegyptisch-arabischen Wiiste auf Grundlage anatomisch- 
physiologischer Forschungen”. The title of this work is as unsuitable 
us misdirecting. Above all it is not a Flora, believing that the main 
object of such a work is to afford a ready means of determining the 
name of any species for the purpose of ulterior study. It deserves 
special mention on account of being the first attempt to prepare an 
account of the Egyptian Flora from an oecological standpoint. 
Since 1889 by far the most important contributions to our 
knowledge of the Egyptian Flora have been made by Professor 
Sickenberger and I regret that only brief mention can be made of 
his work here. In his “Contributions a la Flore d’ Egypte’ (publi- 
shed ofter his death by Deflers) he describes with considerable details 
of the Flora of this beautiful country. Firstly he attempt te pre- 
pare a “Cryptogamic Flora of Egypt’, except the algae which have 
been published by myself in the “Mémoires de l'Institut égyptien V 
(1908) as: Enumération des Algues marines et d’eau douce obser- 
vées jusqu’a ce jour en Egypte”. In 1909 the Rear Admiral Blomfield 
published an interesting memoir: ‘Wild flowers around Alexandria” 
(in Bull. Alexandria Hortic. Society p. 1—16). 
