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



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Scutellaria peregrina subsp. SihtJiorj)n 



Sideritis romana subsp. cnrvidens 



Phloyn is lunariaefolia 



Ph. qiiwia 



Ballot a integrifolia 



Salvia triloba subsp. lilmnotlca and cypria 



S. riridis 



Thymus capitatus 



Linaria conim n taia 



Scrophu laria sphaerocarpa 



Odontites eypria 



Orobanche cypria 



0. alba 



Plantago Lagopus 



P. Psyllium 



Crucianella lalifolia 



C. macrostachya 



Galium subcrosum 



G. Aparine 



G. mur ale 



Ruhia tinctorum 



R. Olivieri subsp. brachypoda 



Lonicera etrusca and var. Roeseri 



Valerianella truncata 



V. vesicaria 



V. discoidea 



Valeriana Dioscoridis 



Scabiosa cyprica 



8. sicuJa 



Pterocephalus papposiis 



P. multifiorus and subsp. obtusifoUus 



Bryonia dioira 



B. cretica 



Specularia falcuta 



Micropus bombycinus 



Evax eriosphaera 



Filago germaniea 



Helichrysum rupicolum subsp. hrachy- 



phyllum 

 H. italicum var. camim 

 Phagnalon graecum 

 Antliemis tricolor 

 A. jiamphylica 

 Echinops viscosus 

 Atractylis cancellata 

 Br oter oa corymbosa 

 Jurinea cypria 



Carlina corymbosa subsp. involucrata 

 Crupina Crupinastrum 

 Serratula cerinthefolia 

 Centaurea pallescens subsp. hyalolepis 

 Carthamus lanatus subsp. creticus 

 Scolym us bispanicus 

 Catananche lutea 

 Rodigia commutata 

 Taraxacum megalorrhizon 

 Lactuca cretica 

 L. Scariola 

 Crepis Fraasii 



5. Forest-Societies. 



We know from the statements of the ancient authors, that Cyprus has in antiquity been a country 

 rich in forests; there have been times when the forests of the island were not only confined to the mountains, 

 but had also a vast distribution in the low-lands. The principal statement concerning this is due to 

 Strabo, who writes: "According to Euatostiienes the plains were formerly covered with thick forests, 

 so that they were quite dense with woods and could not therefore be inhabitated. The trees felled for 

 the purpose of melting the copper and silver in the mines did not make any great change in tlicse 

 conditions; nor did the ship-building for the navy, as the sea was already safe and navigated by war- 

 ships. Howevei', when all proved to be in vain, anyone was permitted to clear the ground and to take 

 possession of the cleared ground as tax-free propriety." (Strabo, XIV, 6, 5). It is well known tiiat in 

 the early antiquity a rather considerable exportation of timbers from Cyprus to the neighbouring countries 

 took place; accounts of the exportation of timber to Egypt are kept from as early as 1400 B. C^) Con- 

 siderable quantities of timber for the fleet of Alexander the Great were also fetched from Cyprus. 



1) Oberhummer, Die Insel Cj'peni, I, p. 425. 



