List of Spontaneous Vascular Plants, hitherto observed in Cyprus. jgg 



O. alba Steph. in Wilhl. Sp. pi. Ill, 350 (1800); Beck, Mouogr. 208. O. Epithymum DO. Fl. Fr. Ill, 490 (1805); 

 Boiss. Fl. orient. IV, 509. 



Mazoto (JH 199). 



Acantbaceae Juss. 



Note. Acanthus mollis L. is indicated for the island by Thompson (Fl. Oypr. 3H6, leg. Lasoelles) without mentioning 

 any special locality. Tliis species is not else known with certainty from the countries of the Levant, and the Cyprian plant 

 if spontaneous, therefore, may perhaps more probably be supposed to belou"- to A. spinostis L. or ^. syriacus Boiss.— The village 

 of Akanthu on the north-coast has its name after a plant of this genus. 



Plantaginaceae Liudl. 



Plnntago maior L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 112 (1753); Boiss. Fl. orient. IV, 878; Thompson, Fl. Cypr. 20. Wvni-ii-^pt^. 



Road-sides, waste places, not very common. Kuklia in the Messaria (.JH 388, luxuriant form 

 with lamina of leaves 21 cm. long and 15 cm. broad), Limassol (Miohaelides!). — Also collected by Sintenis 

 and Lascelles. 



P. lauceolata L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 113 (1753); Boiss. Pl. orient. IV, 881; Thompson, Fl. Cypr. 337. 

 Fields, not rare. Prodrome (JH 902).— Also collected by Sintenis and Lascelles. 



p. albicans L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 114 (1753): Boiss. Fl. orient. IV, 882; Kotschy, Cypern, 228; Barbey, Herbor. Levant., 151. 

 Dry fields, common in lower regions. Nikosia (JH 306), Pyla (JH 566). 



P. amplexicaiilis Cavann. Icon. II, 22, tab. 125 (1793); Boiss. Fl. orient. IV, 883 et Suppl. 366: Sintenis in Oe. 

 B. Z. XXXI, 326. 



Dry places. Pentadaktylos (SR 64:!). 



P. cretica L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 114 (1753); Boiss. Fl. orient. IV, 884; Sibth. et Smith, Prodr. I, 100; Fl. Graec. II 

 tab. 147; Kotschy. Cypern, 229. 



Dry fields common, already observed by Sibthorp. Hag. Napa (JH 26). 



P. orata Forsk. Pl. aegypt. arab. 31 (1775); Boiss. Fl. orient. IV, 885; nou Suppl. 366. 

 Dry fields, sandy places. Nikosia (JH 300 a). 



F. notata Lagasc. Gen. et Spec. Plant. 7 (1816); Boiss. Fl. orient. IV, 885. P. ovata Boiss. Fl. orient. Suppl. 366 

 (1888) et in .Sint. et Rigo, Iter cypr. no. 63; non Forsk. 



WiLLKOMM (Prodr. Fl. Hisp. H, 352) and Muebeck (Fl. Tun. Ill, 3) have uttered doubt as to 

 the identity of Lagasca's P. notata. Willkomm placing it with a ? near P. Loeflingii L., and Murbeck 

 quoting it as a dubious synonym of P. syrtica Viv. [Fl. Lib. Spec. 7, tab. 3, fig. 2 (1824)]. In fact, 

 Lagasca's diagnosis is very short and incomplete, but still it is better than the description and figure 

 given by Viviani 8 years later. In Herb. Boiss. I have been able to examine an authentical specimen 

 of P. notata, given to Boissier by Lagasca himself (see Boissier, Voyage botan, dans le midi d'Espagne, 

 TI, 535 — 6), and must support Boissier's opinion, that this is the same plant as P. syrtica Viv. (= P. 

 praecox C. A. Mey., P. Olivieri Dene, etc.). Being the oldest name, Lagasca's P. iiotata should therefore 

 be preserved for the species. 



Sandy places. Kythraea (SR No. 63!), Niko.sia (JH 300 c). 



P. Lagopus L. Sp. pi. ed. 1, 114 (1753); Boiss. Fl. orient. IV, 886; Kotschy, Cypern, 229; Barbey, Herbor. Levant, 

 151 ; Thompson, Fl. Cypr. 337. 



Dry fields, very frequent in lower regions. Larnaka (JH 97), Hag. Napa (JH 32), Salarais 

 (JH 444), Pano Panagia (JH 1059). 



Vegetation of Cypnis — S2 



