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



present extracted from this tree ia any place on Cyprus. Nor has Mr. Bovill, with whom I have con- 

 ferred about this question, ever heard that this is done in the island. 



b. Forests chiefly constituted by the Wild Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens). Wild cypresses 

 occur also in other parts of the island, for instance in the vicinity of the Convent of Hag. Neophytos and 

 in other places on the southern coast, but as a wood-tree they do not anywhere play approximately the 



h'ig. 126. Wilt] Cypresses (Cupressus seiiqieriirens) uear the Monastery of Hag. Neophytos (District of Paphos). 



same part as along the northern mountain-range. All over the stretch from the peninsula of Karpass to 

 the neighbourhood of Lapithos, and perhaps still farther westwards, there are greater and smaller occur- 

 rences of cypresses, and in several localities this tree is creative of real forests. 



The cypress-form constituting forests on Cyprus is the common, wild form with more or less hori- 

 zontally spreading branches If. horuvnfalis); only very exceptionally we find in the forests together with 

 the latter form some individuals of column-shaped cypresses (/. pyramidalis), as already mentioned more 

 closely above (p. 28). 



The wild cypress is a handsome tree. In the way it grows, and seen at some distance, it reminds 

 somewhat of the North-European spruce. On Cyprus it does not assume any considerable height, but has 

 frequently slender trunks and yields a precious wood-material. It is a tree easily contented, which is 

 satisfied with small quantities of humus and manages to penetrate with its roots into the narrowest fissures. 

 It thrives well whether it grows on sunny mountain-slopes or in narrow, shady ravines. Not rarely the 



