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species is else quite unknown in Cyprus, the specimens determined 
us may be suspected to belong to Ph fumariaefolia Kotschy,” 
which is common in the lower region 
edum palestinum Boiss. Pertndaceyice (Lascelles). ‘ This 
is a species closely allied to S. pallidum M. B., and hitherto only 
known from the mountains of Syria and ee far sea ” Tt is doubted 
by Holmboe for Cyprus. 
Heliotropium undulat Vahl. ‘Common everywhere’ 
Wil, Not rolleste a by others, and may be H. pilscon 
ill 
ma frutescens Lam. Hagios Hilarion (Lascelles). Is 
probably “a Oca Kotschy, which grows there abundantly, 
and is end 
Odentites lettan Te Cyprus (Lascelles). Is possibly the sa 
O. ae! Boiss. Here, also, should be placed O. frut 
oech., Enum. Plant. Cyp. (1842) and O. Bocconi Kitasiey: 
Cypern = 5). 
A 1s montana var. tenuiloba Boiss. Cyprus (Sibthorp). 
H 
arlina curetum Heldr. Between Platraes and Pera-Pedia 
penedienh: is C. involucrata Poir., a subspecies of C. corym- 
a L. 
“C. lanata var. pygmaea Post is described as a new species, 
C. pygmaea (Post) Holmboe, especially distinguished by the scales 
of the involucre. 
Onopordon Sibthorpianum Boiss. et a chong No. 545) 
is the subspecies O. anatolicum Boiss. et 
rupina vulgaris Cass., of Kotschy, i ar Crus nastrum Vis. 
Centaurea Behen L., of Sibthorp, is probably Serratula cerinthe- 
folia Boiss. Fl. Orient. iii. 585 (1875). “The combination Serra- 
tula cerinthefolia does not occur earlier, although Sibthorp and 
a th both there and in Index Kewensis are erroneously quoted 
as authors.” 
Cichorium Intybus L., of Kotschy, is C. pumilum Jacq 
moseris pusilla Gaertn. Woods near Prodromo (Kotschy, 
814), is Hyoseris glabra iacs. ene HA. minima Cyrill. 
H. Sruart Tompson. 
-O. Srapr: The Southern Element in the British Flora. Re- 
printed from A. Engler’s Botanische Jahrbiicher, Band 50, 
pp. 509 to 525. Leipzig-& Berlin: W. Engelmann. ipoe 
Tuts is a very able and carefully worked out account 
“ Atlantic’ and “ Mediterranean” elements of British aa ish 
vegetation ; together with a sketch of the views as to their origin 
held by Forbes, Engler, Mr. Clement Reid, Dr. Scharff, and the 
au 
Field-botanists may well hesitate, in face of the fairly numerous 
endemic Species fone 3 in our ‘islands, and of several others | which 
eters fully Ben! et 2 "Reid's theory that “no temperate flora 
could have survived the conditions prevailing in the islands phe 
