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lemon-yellow colour, highly ornamental. Ad/iwm rosewn and Muscari 
comosum adorn every barley field with the common poppies (Papaver 
rhoeas). Quite a feature in the Mariut Flora is the handsome 
Phlomis fruticosa with soft leaves and whorls of large yellow flowers, 
whilst a beautiful blue corn (Centawrea crupinoides) is occasionally 
to be met with. A not uncommon and interesting plant of “bean- 
caper family” is a creeper, Magonia cretica with intricately branched 
trefoil leaves, prickly stipules and pretty purple flowers of the size 
of a half piastre. A prostrate woolly annual, Newrada procumbens — 
with solitary flowers and curious fleshy fruit, which for long puzzled 
scientific botanists as to what order it should be placed in and has 
at length been included among osaceae, with which family the 
amateur would not dream of associating it, is not uncommon. The 
interesting Helicophyllum erassipes with a deep-purple spathe and 
large pedate roots is frequent at Mex and Mariut; the roots are 
eaten like potatoes, by the Bedouins. 
The following list of plants?) will represent the distribution of 
the most characteristic species of the area in the two subregions. 
Those marked by an +are typical marmaric-cyrenaic species those 
marked by an asterisk are common in the region. 
M. ma. 
Anemone coronaria. Malva aegyptiaca. 
* Adonis microcarpus. Krodium ciconium. 
Ranunculus asiaticus. Tetradiclis salsa. 
Ranuculus muricatus. Argyrolobium uniflorum. 
* Delphinium nanum. +* Ononis vaginalis, 
Papaver dubium. 5 Sicnla; 
* ,  hybridum. Trigonella monspeliaca. 
»  Argemone. » maritima. 
Roemeria hybrida. + , Aschersoniana, 
Glaucium corniculatum. Medicago orbicularis. 
Matthiola acaulis. »  tuberculata. 
Biscutella apula. es coronata. 
Lepidium Draba. | » arabica. 
Erucaria aleppica. Trifolium stellatum. 
+ Moricandia suffruticosa. ,  formosum. 
* Enarthrocarpus strangulatus. Hymenocarpus nummularis. 
+ .,  pterocarpus. *+ Lotus argenteus. 
Helianthemum vesicarium. oa »  creticus. 
Fumana glutinosa. » ornithopodioides. 
Silene cerastioides. » edulis. 
»,  colorata. Tetranoglobus palaestinus. 
Polyearpon alsinifolium, Hippocrepis unisiliquosa. 
Loeflingia hispanica. »  multisiliquosa, 
Paronychia capitata. + Astragalus radiatus. 
argentea. ,, hispidulus 
1) Lists of all Egyptian plants showing their whole distribution see 
Appendix ITI. 
