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countries, but is of much purer composition. The Quercus on 
acorns are ripe in October. An account of the plant as the 
host of the ‘*Kermes”’ insect, which yields a crimson dye 
material, is given in the Kew Bulletin, 1910, pp. 167-169. 
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its variegated green and white leaves, apes 
Lathyrus, Vicia, and other Leguminosae, Silene spp., Dianthus 
spp., Delphinvum spp., Plumbago europaea (autumn flower- 
ing), Carduus spp., and allied thistles, Aspodelus albus, 
Carex spp., Scrophularia spp., Verbascum spp., an various 
grasses. The bushes are commonly in patches of greater or 
less extent, and between these are the stony slopes, more or less: 
covered with a short turf of xerophytic grasses, amongst which 
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spring up bulbous plants, or those with corms rhizomes, 
Ornithogalum, Romulea, Gagea, Crocus, Muscari, Anemone, 
latter include Medicago and Trifolium spp., and num 
other Leguminosae common to all the Mediterranean floras, 
Myosotis idaea and collina, Helianthemum_ salicifolium, 
Euphorbia spp., Draba verna, Alyssum spp., ospermum 
apulum, Arenaria spp., and On the 
southern slopes of the 
‘alamintha suaveolens, Stachys spp., Mentha spp.)- 
icuous plant amongst the hill 
covered with dense whi 
moked a not unlike that of elder. Anchusa italica — 
Lotus aegeus are noteworthy for their beauty, as 1s also Nigella 
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