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Note 3. 



We have not yet any Fauna or Flora of the island of 

 Malta. As a contribution towards it, we will enumerate 

 the following animals and plants, which came under our 

 observation : — Amphibia : Testudo Mydas ; Coluber^ in- 

 determ. Pisces : Raja clavata ; Squalus Canicula ; Uran- 

 oscopus scaber ; Scomber' Pelamys ; Trigla Cuculus ; T^sox 

 Sphyrsena ; Muvt^na Helena. Mollusca : Sepia Loligo, 

 octopus ; Anomia Cepa. Insecta : Ateuchus sacer ; Pi- 

 melia bipunctata ; Acheta umbraculata ; Meloe laevigata. — - 

 Forskol, in his Flora j^^gyptiaco-arabica, p. xii. mentions 

 eighty-seven Maltese plants, almost all of which we like- 

 wise found. For the convenience of the reader, the German 

 species are printed in Roman letters, the south European in 

 //fa/fc, and the African in /T^i/C SMALL capitals. Festuca 

 pinnata, distachyos, pratensis ; Bromus madritensis^ rubem ; 

 Poa annua, rigid a ; Rottboellia incuivata, Lagurms ovatus ; 

 Horde um murinum ; jEgilops ovata ; Avena fatua ; Crypsis 

 schoenoides ; Arum italicum ; Juncus bufonius ; Ixia Bidbo- 

 codium ; Muscari comosum, i^acemosum ; Scilla maritima ; 

 Asphodelus ramosiis; Allium ciliatum, Cyr. — Ruppia mari- 

 tima ; Zannichellia palustris. — Rumex Ruceplialophorus^ 

 acutus ; Niho spinosa^ Monch. — Salsola frutescens ; Cheno- 

 podium Bonus Henricus, album ; Beta vulgaris Salicornia 

 fruticosa, — Plant ago Coronopus^ subulata, lanceolata, Psyl- 

 lium. — Anagallis Moiielli, arvensis ; Bartschia versicolor 

 Rhinanthus Crista Galli. — Euphrasia officinalis. — Ros- 

 marinus officinalis ; Ajuga pyramidalis ; Lamium pur- 

 pureum, amplexicaule ; Stachys liirta ; Sideritis montana ; 

 Prasium majus ; Glechoma hederacea ; Thymus 8erpyllum, 

 Zygis ; Salvia Verbenaca^ verticillata ; Marrubium hisparii- 

 cum ; Clinopodium viilgare ; Origanum vulgare. — Scrophu- 

 laria nodosa ; Antirrhinum Cymbalaria, Orontium siculum, 

 majus. — Hyoscyamus niger, aureus^ albus ; Solanum minia- 

 tum^ Bernh. nigrum. Dulcamara ; Datura stramonium ; 



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