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Original Articles. 
, ON THE FLORA OF MOAB. 
Bv W. Amuerst Hayne, B.A. 
(Read at the Meeting of the British Association, August 16th, 1872). 
The specimens on which the following sketch is founded were collected. 
in February an arch, and have been allocated to their proper orders 
and genera in the Her barium at Oxford, pts put at the disposal of my- 
self and the Rev. H. E. Fox, by Professor Law 
The district referred to as Moab must be understood to consist of a 
Sea and the Jordan, on the east by the Pilgrim Road from Damascus to 
Mecca, and extending from the Oasis of the Safieh, on the south, to the 
lies between that watercourse and D a, n S 
Seisiban. Out of this parallelogram eliminate a block at the south v 
angle, and you have a good idea of the country worked, which might 
Wrote my journal with my coat off, with the thermometer at 76° at mid- 
night. For the sake of convenience, € e iis divide the country 
Into three zones, corresponding to these thre s, and call them the 
frigid, temperate and torrid. The high ioral ics three thousand feet 
above the sea, AK dati the first field, the deep ravines which cleave it 
Include the other wo. The level of the Mediterranean may be taken as 
the division aliia the second and the thirc 
the frigid, eight in the temperate, and nine in the torrid zone. e 
eided tw wenty plants in flower, the second eighty-three, and the third 
ne hundred and forty-seven ; just reversing the ratio of time, an nd giving 
on a day to the plateau, and sixteen “to the shores of the sea and 
sg 
great plateau of Moab is chiefly grass, south of the Arnon 
The 
. aud: west of "Heebbon.; the turf is turned over once in some three or four 
s 
advance eastwards, till it begins to give way to a low scrub of Artemisia. 
b is, no yet in flower in March, gave out aromatie scent as it w 
?ruised a our horses’ feet, and emong it masses of whitened snail shells, 
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