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



the lower regions; especially it is often seen near villages with a Turkish population, and in the Turkish 

 parts of Nikosia, Famagusta and Larnaka (Fig. 81). Even in its highest habitat, the garden of Hag. 

 Elias (cp. page 42), the fruits will ripen, being, however, quite small and not so sweet as they arc further 

 down. It is not rarely to be found in a demisavage condition, f. inst. near Akapnou and Asgata in the 

 district of Limassol.— Mulberries are to be found, the black one, as well as the white one (Mor us nigra 

 and M. alba) in many parts of the island; the latter is often cultivated on' behalf of the culture of silk.— 

 Fig-trees (Fims carica) are among the commonest fruit trees in the orchards of Cyprus; they are cultivated 

 in several varieties, being rather frequently of a good quality. The best are said to be found near Lef- 

 akra. As mentioned elsewhere it occurs in Cyprus as a wild plant also and it has been found, as a fossil 



Fio-. 82. 01(1 Tree of F\i:\m Si/conwrns at Has. Napa 



in the calcareous tufa near Kazan (cp. page 62 and 199). — Sycomores (F. Sycomorus) are to be found 

 only planted sporadically, sometimes in very old and very big copies; besides in the places mentioned by 

 Oberhummer (Inscl Cypern I, p. 298), there is a very fine old tree in the convent garden of Hagia Napa. 

 (Fig. 82). — Of Cellis australis I have seen several old trees f. inst. near the monastery of Kykko, one near 

 Paradisia not far away from the former place and another with a mighty, regular corolla near Moudoulla in 

 the valley of Marathassa. — Hazel (Corylus 4i:e?faHa) is cultivated chiefly in the neighbourhood of various 

 villages in the mountainous regions, especially in Pitzillia. — Chestnut (Castanea sativa) is found in some 

 of the villages in the central part of the mountains, everywhere, however, as far as known, in single 



