Eeuiarks on the most Iiupurtaut Plant-Societies of the Island. 



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Triglochin hulbosum 

 Polypogon monspeliensis 

 P. mariiiivus 



Splii'iioims clivaricatus 

 Aeluropus litondis subsp. repcns 

 Hordeuw maritimuni 

 Leptiiriis iiwiirvatus 

 Atiiplex portul((coii1es 

 SiKiedn fnilicosn 

 Salicorniii herliacea 

 S. frulicosd 

 SahoJa i)ii'nuis 



Mesembriianlhciuuiu iukUIIdiiuu 

 Spcnjiilarid scilina 

 S. iliandrd 

 Scujlna mnritivKi 

 Capsella prucumhens 

 Tri folium tomrntotnim 

 Zijgoplnilluin (tlbnin 



Peganuni Harmala 

 Mnlva pnrvifiwa 

 FrankenUi pul oc ride nla 

 Biipleiirum semicomposituni 

 ÅHagallis arvensis subsp. plwenicea 



and subsp. coerulea 

 Statice Limonium 

 S. virgata 

 8. g^-aeca 

 S. eckioitJf's 

 Plantago Coronoptis 

 P. Lagopus 



P. nmriliina subsp. cidssi folia 

 Bellis annua 

 Inula critlimoides 

 Anthcinis cretira 

 (.hlamijdophoni liidcnhda 

 (Ircpis bidbosa 



A similar marsliy vegetation as tliat one, which we have described here, is widely distributed 

 throughout the countries of the Mediterranean. Several of the plants enumerated in this list are as common 

 for instance in Spain and in Southern France as in the Levant. 



But most closely is the marshy vegetation of Cyprus connected with tliat of the delta of the 

 Nile; thus ChlamijdopJwfu tridrntata, which is a very characteristic plant of the marshy country of the 

 island, outside Cypru.s is known only from Egypt. 



b. Societies of Reedy Plants with laige coarse Cyperaceae and .Juncaceae as the most predominant 

 species, occur about the collections of watci- mentioned above, and also in sevei'al places in sha.iow lagunes 

 of brackish water along the coasts of Cypi'us. 



Round the Salt Ijakc of l^arnaka-inside the marshy vegetation formerly described — there is a zone 

 of such a vegetation formed chiefly by dense growths of the big stiff J uncus maritimus. Here and there 

 scattered copies of Crepis bulbosu var. polgcephda are always to be seen growing. In open places Aua- 

 gnllis arvensis subsp. coerulea covers the field with its shining blue flowers. 



Directly to the west of Limassol, between the town and the Salt Lake in a lagune of brackish 

 water, there is a similar vegetation reminding considerably of the one we have just spoken of near Larnaka, 

 being, however, richer in species than any other that I had an opportunity of seeing in Cyprus. It is 

 severed from the ocean through a low rising of the ground consisting chiefly of sand and covered for the 

 greater part with Imperala cylindrica. In this lagune Juncus suhulutiis and J. acutus grow, both of them 

 abundantly; tall copies of Curex divisa are also to be found there. Cladium Mariscus which I have seen 

 in no other place in the island, is very frequent here and will reach the height of a man. Moreover, 

 Scirpus maritimus and Schoenus nigricans are numerous. Scattered among the species mentioned hei'e 

 herbaceous plants, such as Orchis laxiflorus sub.sp. p((lusfris. Triglochin Imlbosxtm, Lotus corniculatus subsp. 

 tenuifolius (abundant), Erythraea tenuiflora (abundant), (Mora serotina (rather frequent) and others, are 

 to be found. 



In wet places at the almost dry bottom of the "lake" near Vatili there are societies of reedy 

 plants to be found in several places; in a depression of the bottom of the water towards the northern 

 side of the reservoir, not far from the village Strongylo, I found open water, 0.1—0.2 m. deep. Scirpus 

 Utoralis grows densely throughout the whole of this region and will become ca. 0.5 m. high; scattered 

 among copies of this plant. Polygonum sp. (cp. p. 64, note) and Rumrx pulcher grow, the latter singly only. 



