Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 



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most religiously with the view of depositing them in the Herbarium 

 of the Edinburgh Botanical Society. 



" Next week the Beacon goes to Malta. If she had only remained 

 a month longer, I should have had a great many plants, now only 

 beginning to flower. I remain behind with a view of rejoining her 

 in Candia in May. I go up the country, but as it will be impossible 

 during that journey to collect many specimens of everything, I shall 

 content myself with making pretty perfect sets of Lycian plants for 

 the Botanical Society and a few botanists who will turn them to the 

 benefit of science. I have not been fortunate hitherto in procuring 

 materia medica information, but I hope to be so ere long." 



Mr. Forbes also enclosed the following account of Lycian vegeta- 

 tion : — 



Table of the Winter Vegetation of Lycia. 



Date. 



Plants in Flower. 



Locality. 



Habitat. 



Ceased to 

 flower. 



Dec. 1841 



Arisarum vulgare 

 Clematis vitalba . . 

 Bellis sylvestris .. 



General 



of Macri. 

 General 



Narcissus polyanthos 



Crithmum maritimum ... 

 Polygonum equisetifolium 



Brassica lusitanica ? 



Passerina hirsuta 



Islands . . . 

 Islands.., 

 Islands... 

 Islands... 



Psilis, Xanthus j Sandy flats 

 Carob tree forming fruit : wild olive ripe. 



In stony places on lime- 

 stone. 



Island in Gulf Stony places among trees, 

 on limestone. 

 Grassy and woody places, 

 limestone and serpen- 

 tine, &c. 

 Grassy places on limestone. 



On limestone rocks 



Sea- cliffs, limestone 



Grassy places on limestone 



End Feb. 

 January. 

 End Jan. 



January. 



January. 

 January. 

 March ? 



Jan. 1842 

 1st week. 



2nd week, 



3rd week 



4th week, 



Mercurialis annua . 

 Anemone coronaria. 



Mandragora officinalis 

 Amygdalus communis., 

 Euphorbia? , 



Bellis perennis. 



Trichonema Bulbocodium, 



Cardamine hirsuta .... 

 Euphorbia dendroides. 

 Veronica cymbalaria . 



Veronica agrestis .. 

 Erodium cicutarium 

 Euphorbia ? 



General 

 General 



Macri 

 Macri 

 Macri 



General 



General 



General 



Cragus 



Xanthus,Macri 



Xanthus 

 Xanthus 

 General 



In stony places. 

 Grassy places on all kinds 



of rock. 

 Grassy places on limestone 

 On rocks (limestone). 

 Abundant on the gravelly 



plains. 



Grassy places on serpen- 

 tine, limestone and ter- 

 tiary, supplanting B. syl- 

 vestris. 



On limestone and serpen- 

 tine hills. 



Grassy places. 



Near the sea. 



Grassy places, and among 

 shrubs on limestone, also 

 on old walls. 



Fields. 



Grassy places. 



In woods on limestone. 



End Feb. 



Ferns and Mosses fruiting. Wheat three inches high. End of this month red Anemone 

 coronaria are common, before they were mostly purple. 



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