Remarks on tlie must Important Plant-Societies of the Island. 



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piadacea Marsdenia ereeta is to be mentioned, which in the latter place appeared along with P. Len- 

 tiscus. Its heipfht will hardly exceed 1 m.; its rich yellowish-white inflorescences filled the air with a 

 strong smell in the beginning of May. Here it should also be mentioned, that the thorny small bushes of 



Fig. 97. Cype>-us Kalli (Forsk.) Murb. (Va). 



AUiayi Maurormn, Paliurus australis, Sanguisorhn spinosa and Asparagus stipidaris. belonging all of them 

 mainly to other plant-societies, especially to the dry steppes, sometimes occur in great numbers in sand dunes 

 where they to a large extent may contribute to biud the sand. Especially the two former species I found 

 to be very common all over the sandy plains near the bay of Famagusta. The sand dunes round Salamis 

 are now comparatively well bound by the vegetation; but more to the North, e. g. between Hag. Sergios 



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