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On crossing the hills to the plain of Xanthus the wild pomegranate 

 was observed abundantly and in fruit. 



The rarest and most interesting plants met with in February were 

 Saxifraga hederacea, which grows on moist roclis and among tombs, 

 and Tulipa Sibthorpiana, the small, yellow blossoms of which are 

 drooping, and not larger than those of our snowdrop. The writer 

 also observed that the leaves of specimens gathered at Moiri, where 

 it grows among the thickets near the theatre, were much narrower 

 than those represented in the 'Flora Graeca.' In March a large num- 

 ber of the spring flowers had opened, and among them Asphodelus 

 ramosus was very conspicuous. Some common British plants were 

 noticed, as Sonchus oleraceus, Saxifraga tridactylites, Stellaria nemo- 

 rum and Cerastium vulgatum ; and our beautiful Ranunculus aquati- 

 lis was in full bloom in the ponds among the marshes. At Anliphillus 

 the sea-side vegetation was in great luxuriance and full bloom : large 

 bushes of Euphorbia dendroides covered the warm, rocky sL-pes of 

 the hills, mingled with Styrax and Phillyrea latifolia, and several 

 shrubby Labiatas of the genera Teucrium, Phlomis, Salvia and La- 

 vandula scented the air with their fragrance. The beautiful flowers 

 of Ophrys speculum seemed as i^ each was a little mirror of ultrama- 

 rine glass, framed in a fringe of crimson velvet. Orchis longicornis 

 grew in great abundance on the hills near Cassabar, and it is chiefly 

 from the roots of this species that salep is made. The high plain on 

 which the cities called Cyanse formerly stood produced such abun- 

 dance of Veronica grandiflora as to render the fields completely blue, 

 and induced the writer to query whether this circumstance had not 

 given rise to the name. 



We must, however, pass over many interesting pages in order to 

 quote at length the passage which contains a summary of Lycian 

 vegetation, which we feel sure will be read with interest by all our 

 subscribers. 



" The surface of the country consists of plains and deep valleys, 

 bounding or leading from the sea, and of high mountains, with steep 

 forest-clad sea-ward slopes, walling in alpine plains, mostly bare and 

 ti'eeless, except around the villages. These topographical features 

 indicate as many botanical regions. The first includes the great 

 maritime plains and valle^^s — the vegetation from the edge of the sea 

 to an elevation of about fifteen hundred feet. The second includes 

 the mountain-slopes towards the sea, from an elevation of fifteen hun- 

 dred to nearly three thousand feet, and the yailahs or highland valleys 

 which open out seawards. The third is the great inland regioii of sub- 



