List iif Spontaneuus Vascular Plaiit:^. liitherto ubsL-rved in (.'ypriis. 25 



extreme separation would render the perspicuity dlftieult. On the other hand the "pulverisators"— a word 

 often applied almost as a term of abuse— have observed the astonishing constancy with which oven in- 

 conspicuous forms transfer their qualities upon their off-spring, and the independance in geographical and 

 other respects which they often possess. The experimental cultures of Jordan, Wittrock, de Vries 

 and others have shown to evidence, that the considerations of both opposite tendencies are right in the 

 main. If we adopt as a new systematical unity the subspecies, and make use of this term for the 

 "species" of Jordan and his successors, the conflict between the two opposite camps will be in reality 

 smoothed. 



In the systematical enumeration of Cyprian plants below the species are, in conformity with this 

 view, taken in a rather wide sense, Avider than in the works of most modern tloristical authors. But on 

 the other hand several forms, only differing from each others in characters, which may seem to be rather 

 inconspicuous, are treated as subspecies, whenever they possess distinctly separate areas of distiibution, or it 

 can otherwise be concluded from the cii'cumstances under which they occur, that they constitute' independant, 

 hereditary types. The name of variety is reserved for such forms as appear occasionally at various 

 places within the area occupied by the species, either by mutations altering the type in a single respect 

 (colour of Howers, absence of I'ay-flowers in composites, etc., etc.) or by some variation in direct correlation 

 with the natural conditions, climatical or ecological, in their growing-places. An arrangement with so many 

 (legiees of systematical value as f. inst. in Ascherson-Graebner's "Synopsis" is impracticable, when a 

 Hora is concerned in which the polymorphy of the species is yet so imperfectly known. 



For each species is given a short note characterizing its occurrence on the island, as far as it is 

 hitherto known. As indications given in general terms will always, and especially when an author only 

 knows the Hora from the excursions of a single season, be highly influenced by his individual judgement, 

 the localities from which I have seen specimens are always mentioned. It has not been considered 

 necessary to repeat all the localities published by other authors for such species, which are common all 

 over the island; a referance to the sources must be enough in such cases. 



Some of the more important native Cypriot plant-names are subjoined, at the end of the synonymy 

 of the species; they are partly quoted after Gennadius (Hints, p. 31, seqv.), and partly after the author's 

 own observations. 



In the quotation of collector-names the following abbreviations are used: 

 Kotschy = Th. Kotschy (1840 and 1859). 

 SR = P. SiNTENis and G. Rigo (1880). 



UK = F. Unger and Th. Kotschy (1862). 



JH = Jens Holmboe (1905). 



Pteridophyta Cohii. 



Polypodiaceae Martius. 



Cystopieris fragilis Beruh. Sclirad. Xtue .lourn. I. 26 (1806): Luerss. Faniiifl. 449; Halao. Fl. Oraeo. III. 478; 

 Kutsiliv. Cypern. 175. Polypmlinm fragilis L. Sp. pi. eil. 1, 1091 (1753). 



subsp. C. eu-fragilis Aschers. et (iraebii. Sj-uops. I, 15 (1896). C. frogilis gemiina Bernoulli, (iefasspfl. d. Sehweiz, 

 42 (1857): Luer.ss. FarnpH. 451. C. fragilis a typica Halac. FI. Graec. 1. c. 



Most teeth of the ultimate pinnules being undivided, the Cypriot plant is to be refei'ied to this sub- 

 species and not to subsp. (\ rci/ia (U.) Desv., that seems to be moi-e fi-equent in the mountains of the Levant. 



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