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



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TrigoneUa monspeliaca, Medicago circinata, Lotus, Vicia lathyroides, Coronilla scorpioiden, Lathyrus Scorpiurus 

 und Hippocrepis miiltisiUqiia." ^) 



This list of species, liowever, together with the real maquis-plants also contains an element of 

 I'lulei'atc-plants, indicating that cultivated fields may be found io the neighbourhood. 



Contrary to the other maquis-societies, which develope best on hill-slopes and mountain-ridges, 

 the juDiper-maquis in its most typical form, will as a rule be found on flat land, by preference on 

 eonglomei'ate- or sandstone-plateaus covered by a shallow stratum of earth, such as we have described 

 from Valia. Probably there is a connection between this circumstance and the fact that the juniper- 

 maquis has so much in common with the vegetation of the grass-stcppes. It may be said with no little 

 justification, that the relations between juniper-maquis and grass-steppes in a way correspond with tiie 

 relatiiins between shinia-maquis and rock-steppes. 



The list below includes the chief species, generally found in tlie maquis-societies of Cyprus: 



Jan iperiis phnenicect 



Andropogoii Sorglittm subsp. ludrpcims 



A. hirtus 

 Stipa barbata 

 Oryzopsis cjendescens 

 0. miliacea 



Airu capiUaris 



Lagiirus ovatiis 



Melica minnta 



Avena barbata subsp. ^V/>.s7;7 



liriza maxima 



B. minor 



Dactylis ghmerata subsp. hlspank-a 



Poa biilbosa and P. rlriparn 



Droinus rutjcns 



B. madrit('7is)s 



/). sqiiarrosus and vai'. idllosiis 



Triticiim ovatiim and subsp. b'ntnciaJe 



Arum Dioscoridis 



Arisarum vulgare subsp. ineurvatum 



Tamils communis and var. cretica 



Asphodeliis ramosiis subsp. microcarpiis 



A. fistulosus 



Allium Ampeloprcmim f. hohncnse 



A. Willeanuvi 



A. spliaeroceptudum 



A. junceum 



A. roseum var. carncnm 



Gagea pedxmndarift 



Urginea maritinia 



Scilla autmnnalis 



OrnitJiogahim tenu i folium 



Museari comosum 



Asparagus stipularis (diffei-ent varieties) 



A. acutifolius 



Ruscus aculeatus 



Smila.r asper a 



Oladiohtfi triphylliis 



Iris Sisyrinchium 



I. ft or en tina 



Serapias longipetala 



S. laxiftora 



Ophrys liitea 



O. mammosa 



0. fusca and subsp. iricolor 



0. oestrifera 



Orchis Morio 



Quercus coccifera subsp. pseudococcifmi 



Ficus carica 



A ristolochia allissima 



Cytiniis Hypocistis 



Polygonum equisetiforme 



Bosea cypria 



Phytolacca pruinosa 



Silene galataea 



Velezia rigida 



Tunica velutina 



Dianthus tripunctatus 



Delphinium peregriniim subsp. eriocarpum 



D. Staphisagria 



Nigella Nigellastrum 



N. fumariaefolia 



Clematis cirrhosa 



Ranunculus asiat iciis 



R. ftabellatus 



Papaver gracile 



') SiNTESis, r_yperu n. 8eiiie Flora, I, p. 257 



