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Note 3. 



We have not yet any Fauna or Flora of the island of 

 Malta. As a contribution towards it, we will enumerate 

 the following animals and plants, which came under our 

 observation : — Amphibia : Testudo Mydas ; Coluber, in- 

 determ. Pisces : Raja clavata ; Sqiialus Canicula ; Uran- 

 oscopus scaber ; Scomber Pelamys ; Trigla Cuculus ; Esox 

 Sphyraena ; Murceiia Helena. Mollusca : Sepia Loligo, 

 octopus ; Anomia Cepa. Insecta : Ateiichus sacer ; Pi- 

 melia bipunctata ; Acheta umbraculata ; Meloe laevigata. — 

 Forskol, in his Flora ^gyptiaco-ai'abica, p. xii. mentions 

 eighty-seven Maltese plants, almost all of which we like- 

 wise found. For the convenience of the reader, the German 

 species are printed in Roman letters, the south European in 

 Italic, and the African in Italic small capitals. Festuca 

 pinnata, distachyos, pratensis ; Bromus madritensis, rubens ,- 

 Poa annua, rigida ; Rottboellia incwvata, Lagurus ovatus ; 

 Hordeum murinum ; JEgilops ovata ,- Avena fatua ; Crypsis 

 scJicenoides ; Arum italicum ,- Juncus bufonius ; Ixia Bidbo- 

 codiiim ; Muscari comosum, racemosum ; Scilla ^naritima ; 

 AspJiodeliis ramosus; Allium ciliatwn, Cyr. — Ruppia mari- 

 tima ; Zannichellia palustris. — Rumex Bucephalophorus, 

 acutus ; t^ibo spinosa, Monch. — Salsola frutescens ; Cheno- 

 podium Bonus Henricus, album ; Beta vulgaris ; Salicornia 

 Ji'uticosa. — Plantago Coronopus, subulata, lanceolata. Psyl- 

 lium. — Anagallis MoTielli, arvensis ; Bartschia versicolor ,- 

 Rhinanthus Crista Galli. — Euphrasia officinalis Ros- 

 marinus ojjicinalis ; Ajuga pyramidalis ; Lamium pur- 

 pureum, amplexicaule ; Stachys liirla ; Sideritis montana ,• 

 Prasium majus ; Glechoma hederacea ; Thymus Serpyllum, 

 ^ygis ; Salvia Verbenaca, verticillata ; Marrubium liispani- 

 cum; Clinopodium vulgare; Origanum vulgare. — Scrophu- 

 laria nodosa ; Antirrhinum Cymbalaria, Orontium siculum, 

 majus. — Hyoscyamus niger, aureus, albus ; Solanum minia- 

 tum, Bernh. nigrum. Dulcamara ; Datura stramonium ; 



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