292 | ON THE FLORA OF MOAB. 
; second, of a scattered wood o otropis procera ; third, of 
an open belt studded with rushes running parallel with these two parks 
e sea-side ; and lastly, of a dense jungle of canebrake, which, growing 
in water, bars the passage to the edge of the sea, and forms a secure re- 
treat for the wild boar. 
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no less than nine species of crucifers were in flower, a dwarf stock (Mat- 
hot-springs of Kallirrhoé, the lower portion of the Wady now known as 
the Terka Main. i 
fact than any other yet worked except the shore just north and south of 
the outfall of its waters. : 
À very considerable proportion of the conspicuous Asiatic and African 
plants found by Mr. Lo ne, in the Muhawat and Zweirah flats, occur 
mouth. For example, 
habit of throttling itself by climbing on the stiff but withering waco 
of the previous year, was fairly abundant just on the sulphur deposit 
by the springs. ` Cleome trinervia flourished in the same locality, growing 
