STUDIES ON THE VEGETATION OF CYPRUS 181 
summer of 1905, when he visited Cyprus with a grant from the 
University of Christiania. He stayed in the island from March 3rd 
to October Ist. Nearly two hundred pages are devoted to a list 
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tions are excellent, and none are too reduced in size to be of rea 
value. It is unfortunate there is no list of them 
species. Among ferns, the author has found on “ red-earth, 
near the monastery of Hagia Napa, large masses of Ophioglosswm 
lusitanicum, which is very rare in the district of the Flora 
Orientalis. The easternmost localities hitherto known are in 
the Peloponnesus. 
here is a short chapter on the fossil quaternary flora of 
Cyprus, and an extensive and very interesting one on the plant- 
societies of the island. This chapter, illustrated with numerous 
photographic pictures of vegetation and of remarkable plants, 
adds greatly to the value and general interest of the book: it 
is almost exclusively the result of Mr. Holmboe’s own observa- 
tions. Among these pictures is a remarkable one of Cistanche 
shrub the goats will not touch. There are some suggestive 
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The last chapter, of extreme interest to students of geographical 
botany, is a brief ry of the 
Cyprian fiora. : 
ne never likes to criticise the English of a foreigner who is 
good enough to publish a work in our language. Yet, although 
misprints are very few, there are various words and expressions 
used which might have been improved had an Englishman read 
the proofs. There is also a very excusable Latinising of certain 
