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



in a less good condition than farther west, sueli large pines are very rare. The very largest specimen of 

 "the Aleppo Pine" which I have seen on Cyprus, stands on the road between Lagoudhera and Livadia 



Fig. 132. Large Bum on the Stem of a C'aramanian Pine (Pinus nigra subsp. Pallasiana), 

 from which Tar has been produced in earlier Years. 



on the northern slope of the mountain-ridge. Nearest to the ground the circumference of the trunk is not 

 less than 6.68 m. in circumference; ca. 1..5 m. above the ground it divides into 3 stems, the thickest of 

 which measures 4.8 m. in circumference. A photograph of this tree, which is devoted to the prophet 

 Elijah, is reproduced in Fig. 128. While the typical P. halepensis seems to be predominant in the lowlands. 



