ON THE FLORA OF MOAB. - 993 
almost in bushes, and giving out when bruised a nauseous smell resem- 
bling the sulphur on which it grew. Bushes of Zygophyllum album cling 
to the rocks. Fagonia sinaitica, and another more shrubby and more 
spiny species with large pink flowers, were there. Zrichodesma africana 
and a Forskahlea attached themselves to one’ 
have been shown identical, a few belong to the temperate zone, and the 
remainder are difficult to determine. This order it will be observed was 
as largely represented in this locality in March as cruciferee had been 
three weeks before at Nmeriah, and nearly as largely as leguminose was in 
the more temperate regions ; out of twenty-six composites twenty-one come 
from this zone, and twelve from Zara and Kallirrhoé. Of less abundant 
orders we have Ærua javanica, Boerhaavia verticillata, Atriplex Halimus, 
and Rumex vesicarius, which belong also either to Zweirah or Engedi, 
mat ir same grasses, an Andropogon and two Aristidas were also 
ound, 
very abundant just above the baths. Two Orobanches of most gorgeous 
hue I have be w 
