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Remarks on the most Important Plant-Societies of the Island. 



At the time of my visit — April 4, 1905 — the above mentioned, socalled „lake" („limni") near 

 Vatili had ahnost dried up, leaving only a very tiny rest of open water. By far the greater part of the 

 bottom was dry and full of fissures and covered with a dense green turf, chiefly consisting of Sphenopus 

 divaricatus, Spergidaria salina and FranJcenia pidvenilenta. 



In the same year, on the 9th of April, I also found a similar vegetation on the bottom of the 

 ,,lake" near Paralimni, this being also dry and full of fissures. The most frequent species hei'e were 

 Spergidaria salina. S. (UamJra and Franh'nia pnlnraJenfa. all of which occurred, however, in corapara- 



Fig. 70. Aelnmims litoralis Pari, siihsi). repnis Pari, ('/i)- 

 a. Sinylf Leaf (■'/,). 



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tively open growths. More sporadically were to be seen Beta r alga rig subsp. maritima, Statice echioides. 

 Anagallis arvensis subsp. coerulea, Plantago Coronopus, Chlami/dophora tridentata, etc. On the bottom of 

 the "lake'" some scattered bushes of Tamarix tetragyna subsp. Meyeri, just in blossom, were also growing. 



Near Larnaka, in sandy flats richly saliferous, being covered by water in winter time, I found 

 a grass-species Aeluropus litoralis subsp. repens as the most pi'edominant plant. From the axils of the 

 leaves of its decumbent straight-jointed stem clusters of erect shoots issue wearing the flowers (Pig. 70). 



The following is a systematically arranged list of the most important of the phanerogame plants 

 occurring in the sandy and nuiddy maishes of Cyprus: 



