$72 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
3340 ft. It is very picturesque and rugged in outline, but it can 
be crossed in many places, and there are three well-defined passes 
over it. 
The southern range of mountains is much more extensive, and 
culminates in Mount Troodos, the highest point in Cyprus, 6406 ft. 
above sea-level. The two other chief peaks are Adelphe, 5305 ft., 
and Maschera, 4674 ft. Numerous 
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missioner in Cyprus, to whom Iam indebted for several facts about 
the mountains. These forests afford shelter to the mouffion, or 
wild sheep of Europe. 
_ Numerous rivers descend from both sides of the southern range, 
but they are mostly dry in summer. 
ween these two mountain ranges lies the great plain called 
Messaria, the most fertile part of Cyprus, producing large crops o 
wheat, barley, and cotton. In the lowlands near the coast are 
several inexhaustible salt-lakes. 
¢ climate varies in different localities; in the plains the 
summer heat is very great, frequently 100° F. in the shade. The 
sion six inches of rain fell in three hours; and, though in winter 
it sometimes rains for man days in succession, the summer is rain- 
less, and with an uninterruptedly cloudless sky. Unger and Kotsch 
tell us that during the whole time (March to October) they were in 
yprus scarcely any rain fell. In winter it is relatively cold, and 
artificial heat has often to be used, but the mean winter temperature 
which plants bloomed in J anuary, February, and March. 
tation suffers chiefly from drought and locusts, both of 
which formerly did enormous damage ; but, thanks to the measures 
adopted by the British Administration, these two difficulties have 
greatly lessened of late 
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the lower hills and plains, 
arlier works on Cyprus state that in former times it was a 
densely wooded country, Three h years 
succeeded to the island, and it is to their total neglect of the forests 
that we must attribute their present poor condition and decreased 
area. 
Pinus maritima prevails up to 4000 ft., above which altitude it 
is replaced by P. Laricio and its variety Poiretiana. It is only in 
the shade of P. maritima that Europhaca betica flourishes, and 
