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and Lathyrus Cicera ; others that were equally conspicuous were a dwarf 
blue [ris (/ris Sisyrinchium) which covered the open ground after twelve 
o'clock, and which appeared everywhere afterwards from Moab to Le- 
banon, and the Retem bush of scripture (Retama Retem) with its white 
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flowers and purple calyx. ere and there a gorgeous tulip (Zudipa Ges- 
neriana) was in flower, and two rock cistuses, Helianthemum guttatum 
and 4.vegyptiacum. 
Leguminos:e, as I said before, were profusely represented ; three species 
of Astragali besides the one already referred to; Hippocrepis ciliata, with 
its bizarre pods already formed, Vicia lutea, two kinds of Lotus, and 
several others. It was early for Labiates, which must form a large 
portion of the summer flora of this zone of Moab as they do that of the 
as far as the Ghror es Sáfieh, he had every opportunity of seeing 
the flora of the basin on its western side. His collection, kindly put at 
my disposal by Dr. Tristram, has materially aided me in naming my own, 
and also in giving me data for a comparison between the flora of the east 
and west shores of the sea. : : 
T is comparison leads me to the conclusion that there is no essential 
difference between the flora of the two shore st of the more con- 
Spieuous of Mr. Lowne's species peculiar to the Dead Sea asin, I 
gathered or observed on the easternside. A considerable numberof his plants 
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in the Wady Zweirah, and the Ghror es Sifieh, situated respec- 
tively at the south west and south east corners of the sea, in exactly 
same week as Dr. Tristram and Mr. Lowne had been seven years ago. 
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owne collected eighty-two.  Similiarly on the Ghror es Sâfeh, 
Ricinus communis, pdt persica, Loranthus Acacie, and "gus 
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