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Brief Survey of the Affinities and History of the Cyprian Flora. 



tridentcita, which is common in the salt-water-marshes on the shores of the island; besides in North- Africa, 

 where it is distributed from Tunis to Egypt, this species is only known on Cyprus and Crete, on which 

 latter island it must, however, be very rare, as it has been found there by one investigator only'). Most 

 probably ZtjgophyUum album and Launaya mucronnta, which besides in North-Africa also occur in the 

 soutliernmost part of Palestine, are equally immigrated this way. On the road-sides near to Kythræa 

 SiNTENis has gathered Senecio aegypfms, a weed common in Egypt and Nubia.-i and which I have not 

 seen indicated as growing in Palestine; it would seem natural to suppose that this plant has been carried 

 to Cyprus by the help of man. 



In the vegetation of Cyprus is found a prominent element of plants of eastern distribution, an 

 element rich in species, most of which have their chief distribution on the continent of Asia (in Syria, 

 Palestine, .Arabia, and the adjoiuing countries). Several of them are equally found in northein Africa, 

 especially in Egypt and Tripoli; others have a northlier spread, their area of distribution stretching from 

 northern Syria towards north and west into Asia-Minor, particularly along the southern coast of the latter 

 country. As instances of such plants may be enumerated: 



Alopecurus aiithoxanthoirles 



Cynosurus callitrich us 



Epipactis verairifolia 



Phytolacca pruinosa 



Pteranthus dichotomus 



Alsine picfa 



Saponaria orientalis 



Leontlce chrysogonuvi 



Reseda orientalis 



Neurada proeumbens 



Pirus syriaca 



Prosopis Stcphaniana 



Genista s])haeelata 



Lotus Tetragonolobus subsp. palaestinus 



Alhagi Maurorum 



Vicia sericoeaiya 



V. jmlaestina 



Lathynis amoemis 



L. hlepharicarpiis 



Euphorbia cassia 



Acer obtusifolium 



Zizyphus Spina Christi 



Hypericum confertuyn subsp. stenobotrys 



H. lanuginosum 



Tamarix tetragyna 



Bupleurum nodiflorum 



Smyrnium connatum 



Ferulago syriaca 



Tordylium aegyptiucum 



T. syriacum 



T. cordutum 



Conrolrulus eoelesyriacus 



Anchusa strigosa 



Nonnea philistaea 



Onosma giganteum 



Moluccella laeuis 



Origanum syriacum 



Scrophu la ria sphaeroca r pa 



Veronica caespitosa 



Crucianella macrostachya 



Galium peplidifolium 



G. jjisiferum 



Rubia Olivieri subsp. hrachypoda 



Cephalaria syriaca 



Bryonia multiflora 



Campanida percgrina 



Evax contracta 



E. eriosphaera 



Phagnalon rupestre 



Pulicaria arabica 



Anthemis Cota subsp. palaestina 



A. pseudocotula 



Achillea Santolina 



Ccdendula persica subsp. gracilis 



Gundelia Tournefortii 



Echinops spinosus 



Centaurea cyanoides 



Serratula cerinthefolia 



Lactuca hispida subsp. Candolleana 



Crepis ludaestina 



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1) When page 211 was printed, I had not been aware that tliis plant recently had been indicated for Crete (E. de 

 Hal.\csv. Supplement. Conspect. PI. Graee. p. 56. Lipsiae 1908). 



^) fi. MuscHLER, A Manual Flora of Egypt. II, p. 1017. Berlin 1912. 



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