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ed to be of use in checking immodesty, and for the 

 preservation of chastity, which caused the monks of 

 the fifth century to cultivate it in their monasteries 

 with jealous care. It grows vigorously at Marsa 

 Scala and Wied el Bu'runi together with the Populus 

 alba and the Tamarix Africana. On several hills 

 in Gozo thrives the graceful little valerian named 

 by Dufresnoy Oentranthus Calcitrapa." 



"Unless the botanist visits Gozo in the springtime 

 he can form no idea of the beauty and wealth of 

 some of its valleys in which the fertilising waters 

 constantly refresh numerous indigenous plants, which 

 together with the cultivated species make these 

 districts fair to look upon. The Hypericum JEgijptiacum 

 grows abundantly all adown the valley of Xlendi, 

 the steep sides of which here and there give susten- 

 ance to the Daucus australis. In the same valley 

 are to be found very beautiful specimens of Delphinium 

 iongipes, Clilora perfoliaia, Sedum amplexwaule y and 

 Sedum cceruleum which the Gozitans call, I know 

 not for what whim, Gheneb il Madonna or Our 

 Lady's grape, the rare Scutellaria pereyrina, and 

 many another plant which adds to the beauty which 

 Nature has lavished upon this spot." 



"Plants belonging to our flora grow abundantly 

 in like manner in other valleys. In marly soils, 

 and in the neighbourhood of the sea may be recog- 

 nised by its rosy red cluster of blossoms the 

 lesser centaurea. which is no less useful in medicine 



