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Micromeria barbata, B. et K.; M. myrtifolia, Boiss.; M. nervosa, Desf., 

 and Teucrium polium, Linn., were collected. A bryony, B. syriaca, Boiss., 

 and a beautiful clematis with whitish green flowers, C. cirrhosa, Linn., 

 trailed along the roadside walls near the villages. The leafless Ephedra 

 and Asparagus still help to increase the variety. The spiny-branched 

 Calycotome villosa, Linn,, and Anagyris foetida, Linn., yellow pea-flowered 

 shrubs, are not uncommon. Other less important plants are : Reseda 

 alba, Linn.; Malcolmia crenulata, Boiss.; Thlaspi perfoliatus, Linn.; 

 Erodium moschatum, W.; Thelygomtm cynocrambe, Linn.; Ononis natrix, 

 Linn.; Inula viscosa, Boiss.; Skerardia arvensis, Linn.; Alkanna tinctoria, 

 Tausch., and Onosma syriaca, Lab. Most of these are common about 

 Jerusalem and Bethlehem. 



The birds noted were almost entirely British species. Of these the 

 wheatear had not been seen before. Saxicola lugens, Licht., and I think 

 S. Finschii, Heugl., were eastern chats not seen since leaving the Gh6r, 

 but here not unfrequent. 



While at Jerusalem we came in for an unusually heavy fall of snow, 

 lasting from 20th to 25th of January. There was therefore little to be 

 done in botany around the Holy City. Fortunately we had accomplished 

 our pilgrimage to Jericho before the snow set in, which gave me an 

 opportunity of comparing the northern with the southern Gh6r, or hollow 

 of the Dead Sea. 



About Jerusalem, but especially along the tiny aqueduct between the 

 Pools of Solomon and Bethlehem, some plants were in flower. Erodium 

 malacoides, Linn. ; E . gruinum, Linn.; Pistacia pales stina, Boiss.; Sedum 

 sp. (S. altisshmim, Poir. ? ) ; Tordylium brachycarpa, Boiss. ; Torilis 

 trichosperma, Spr.; T. leptophylla, Rich.; Pimpinella cretica, Poir,; 

 Galium judaicum, Boiss.; Pisum fulvum; S. et L.; Lathyrus blepharicarpus , 

 Boiss.; Carduus argentatus, Linn.; Urospermum picroides, Desf.; Crepis 

 senecioides, Del.; Anchusa Mulleri, Willd ; Onosma syriaca. Lab.; 

 Hyoscyamus aureus, Linn,; Cyclamen latifolium, Sibth.; Plantago lagopus, 

 Linn.; Viscum cruciatum, Linn.; Euphorbia aulacospermci, Boiss.; Gagea 

 reticulata, R.et C; Agrostis verticillata, Willd., and Avena sterilis, Linn.; 

 as well as some common British plants, as Nasturtium officinale, R. Br.; 

 Cerastium glomeratum, Thuill.; Geranium molle, Linn.; Torilis nodosa, 

 Gcert.; Rubus discolor, W. et N.; Veronica anagallis, Linn,, and V 



