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Inula graveolens 

 Anthemis tricolor 

 A. eretica 

 Diotis maritima 

 Senedo vernalis 



Centaurea eretica 



Hedypnois I'hagadioloides subsp. eretica 



Bypochaeris aetnensis 



Launaija niucronntn 



A great deal of the sand-plants enumerated here are widely distributed in similar places throug-hout 

 the countries of the Mediterranean. If we compare the list given here for instance with the indications 



Fig. 99. Growth of Opuntia Ficus hidica near Larnaka. 



given by G. v. Beck') of the vegetation of the sandy regions near the inner part of the Adriatic or with 

 the indications given by Flahault and Combbes^) from Southern France, we shall find numerous points 

 of resemblance. Many of the most conspicuous species are the same. Among the sand-plants of the 

 island there are, however, also some true Oriental and Eastern Mediterranean types, e. g. Abine thy- 

 mifolia, Alhagi Maurorurn, Marsdenia erecta, Anthemis eretica. Centaurea eretica and Launaya mucronata ■ 

 as such types some other plants may probably also be counted, viz. Brassica Tournefortii and Neurada 

 procumbent, both having a decidedly South-Eastern extension, although occurring as well in some places in 

 the western countries of the Mediterranean. Among the endemic Cyprian plants only Silene laevigata 



') (t. v. Beck, Vegetatiou.sverhaltui.'ise der lUyrisclien Liinder (Englee-Dkude, Veg. d. Erde, IV). 

 -) ('h. Flahault et P. (Jombkes, Sur la tlore de la Camargue et les alluvions du Rhone (Bull, de la Soc. hot. de 

 France, XLI, 1894). 



