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



a regular cushion-form, on Cyprus small cedar-trees are seen, which, through the regular ill-treatment of 

 the pasturing goats, have been so evenly cut as if they had been fashioned by a gardener's scissors. At 

 Irka Steratsa I saw a couple of such trees of a specially regular cushion-form, ca. 1 m. in diameter 

 and V2 ID- high. W. Siehe seems to have observed quite similar trees on the Cihcian Taurus; thus he 

 writes: "Eine Form [von Cedrus] mit kleineren Nadeln beobachtete ich im Thale von Gusgute; sie zeigte 

 einen zwergigen korapakten Wuchs, und es ist nicht ausgeschlossen, dass die Ziegen diese Form geschaffen 

 haben, vor deren Zahnen hier nichts gesichert ist."') 



The vegetation associating with the cedars, has very much in common with the vegetation generally 

 occurring in the Quercus alnifolia-forests; apparently the cedar itself is the only new element. Among 

 the shrubs the CJsh<s-species are most predominant; of herbs are mostly seen the same species as in 

 the adjoining Quercus alnifoUa-hrests. The season was, however, at my visit, in the first days of July, 

 1905, so advanced that thei'e was only little opportunity for studying the herbs of the cedar-forests. 



In the cedar the forests of Cyprus possess a tree-species, which, through its fine aspect and its 

 history as well as for phyto-geographical reasons, is of the greatest interest. There seems at present to 

 be no threatening danger of its being extirpated. It is gratifying to see how carefully the cedar-forests 

 are protected by the British forest-administration. Thus a fire-street has been cut around the most 

 important cedar-occurrences, in order to avoid their being ruined by forest-fiie. 



The following are the chief vascular plants belonging to the forest-societies of Cyprus: 



Aspidium rigidum var. mistrale 



A. Filix mas 



AspleniuY)! Adiantum nigrum 



Pteridiiim aqiulinum 



SelagineUa denticulata 



Ciipressiis sempervirens 



Juniperns Oxycedrus subsp. rufescens 



J. phoeiiicea 



J. foetidissima 



Pinas nigra subsp. Pallasiana 



P. halepensis and subsp. brntia 



Cedrus libanotica subsp. brevifolia 



Briza spicata 



Poa trivialis 



Brachypodium silvaticum 



Carex muricata subsp. diimlsa 



C. distans 



Asphodeline lihurnica 



Allium cassium var. hirtellum 



Sniilax asper a 



Limodorum abortiimm 



Cex)halanthera rubra 



C. alba 



Epipactis lati folia var. parvi folia 



Orchis Simius 



Platanthera bifolia subsp. montana 



Popidus nigra 



Alnus orientalis 



Corylus Avellana 



Quercus lusitanica subsp. infectoria 



Q. alnifolia 



Q. coccifera (different foi'ms) 



Ficus carica 



Urtica jnlulifera 



Thesium divaricatum 



Ai-istolochia altissima 



Mumex Patientia subsp. graecus 



Scleranthus annuus 



Saponaria depressa subsp. cypria 



S. o7'ientalis 



Dianthus midtipunctatus var. Troodi 



Paeonia corallina 



Clematis cirrhosa 



Myosurus minimus 



Laurus nobilis 



Berberis cretica 



Arabis pmpurea 



Cardamine hirsuta 



Alliaria officinalis 



Alyssum fulvescens 



A. condensatum 



Platanus orientalis 



W. Siehe, Die Nadelholzer des cilicischeu Taurus, p. 206 ((Jartenflora 1897). 



