List of Spontaneous Vascular Plants, liitherto observed in Cyprus. 3]^ 



Potamogetonaceae Aschers. 



Posidonia oceanici Del. Fl. ae!'Ti)t. ill. HO (181:i); Boiss. Fl. orient. V. 26 et Tn». Zostera (xyanica I,. Jlaut. 

 L 12.3 (1767). 



Leaves only 4 mm. broad. In great abundance thrown up on the shore by every gab". Tjarnaka 

 (JH 112). Already observed by Sintexis. 



Ruppia niaritiuia i.. Sji. \,l. cd. ]. 127 (1753); Sibth. et Smith. Prodr. 1. 109. 



snbsp. R. .spiralis Hiiindrr. Fl. lielu'. 164 (1827); Boiss. Fl. orient. V. ivt. N. mnritima Kiirs(liy. ( 'vpcni. 210 

 (teste Boiss.). 



Brackish water near the sea: Larnaka (Kotschy). 



subsp. R. rostellata Kodi in Rcddi. Ic pi. crit. II. 66 tali. TLXXIV, tii;-. :j06 (1824): Boiss. Fl. orient. V. 20: 

 .A sellers, u. (iraelm. Syn. I, 357. 



Brackish water, already indicated for Cyprus by Asciiekson-Graebneu (without (juotation of any 

 authority).— Larnaka, in salt ditches on the road to Pyla (JH 5G7). 



ZaunichelJia palusiris L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 969 (1753); Boiss. Fl. orient. V. 14. 



subsp. Z. marina P. Nielsen in Bot. Tidskr. V, 204 (1872). Z. palustris Xolte Nov. Fl. Holsat. 75 (1826). Z. ]i. 

 a. genuinn Asehers., Fl. Brand. 668 (1861). p. [}. Z. jj. a typica Halarsy Fl. (iraec. III. 151 (1904).— An Z. ihrntatn Willil. 

 Sp. pi. IV. 1, 81 (1805)? 



In small waterpools on the rocks at Capo Elaea (JH 513). 



snb.sp. Z. pedicellata Fries, llantiss. Ill, 133 (1842). Z. palnsfri/i (i pedicdlata Wablenb. ct Rcjs.-n in Nov. Act. 

 Upsal. VIII. 227 (1821): Boiss. Fl. orient. V. 15. 



Stagnant and slowly running water in the Me.ssaria: Kuklia (JH 3(i8 and 381), Paialiinni (JH 424). 



Juncaginaceae Lindl. 



Triglochin bulliosiim L. .Mant. II, 226 (1771): P.nebenau in EiikI. but. .lalirli. II. 490 >i,^^. T. BaneUeri Lois. 

 Fl. Gall. ed. 2, L i!64 (1828;: Boiss. Fl. orient. V. 13. 



Salt marshes, near the level of the sea: Larnaka, flowering (JH 98), Liraassol, with ripe fruits 

 (JH G58). 



Alismaiaceae Lam. et DC. 



Damasoniuui Alisma :\lill. Gard. diet. ed. 8 (1768): Richter, Pl. Eur. I, 20. D. sfellotum Dalech. Hist. L 10.58 

 (1786). Alisma Damnsonium L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, .343 (1753). 



The fruits of my specimens are not old enough to allow a decision, whether they belong to the 

 subspecies Bmtryaei (Coss.) Richtei', to which Bdissier (Fl. orient. V, 10), Post (Fl. Syr. 821) and Hai,.\csy 

 (Fl. Graec. IH, 142) refer the plant, occuning in the surrounding countries. 



Shallow pools of stagnant water, near the mouth of the Pedias-river (JH 435). 



Grainina Aschers. et Graebn. 



Pbalaris minor Retz. Obs. bot. Ill, 8 (1779—91); Boiss. Fl. orient. V, 472; Kotschy, Cypeni, 177. 

 A common weed. Larnaka (JH 116), Nikosia (JH 265). 



P. paradoxa L. .Sp. [jI. ed. 2, 1665 (1773): Boiss. Fl. orient. V, 472; Kotschy. Cypeni. 177. Ka^iapoaTcopo;. 

 Moist fields at Synkra.si in the Mcssaria (UK 539). 



Imperata cylindrica P. Beauv. Essay Aymst. 165. talj. 5 (1812); Boiss. Fl. orient. V, 452; Post in Mem. Herb. 

 Boiss. 1900. n(]. 18. 102. /. anmdinacea ( yr. PI. rar. Neap. II. 26 (1788): Kotschy, Cypem, 187. Lagwus cylmdricus L. 

 Syst. vea-. ed. 10, 878 (1759). Etcpapct. 



Sand-dunes, especially on the sea-shore. — Between Kythraea and Chrysostomo (UK 370). Limas- 

 sol (JH 654). 



