130 WOODS NEAR THE COAST. 



beautiful polished green foliage of this tree, which 

 here attains considerable dimensions, contrasted 

 strikingly with its smooth purple bloomy stems. 

 Oaks, carobs, wild olives, often of great size, 

 figs, and in places thick groves of pine {Pinns 

 halepe?isis) united with the strawberry trees to 

 form the arborescent vegetation of the coast. 

 Around the trees were thickets of storax, Daph- 

 ne, and myrtles, the last often of enormous size. 

 In more open and sandy ground the lentisk (Pis- 

 tachio, lentiscus) formed large bushes, and on loose 

 sands the Passerina hirsuta. But few herbaceous 

 plants were in flower in such places. A Cyclamen 

 was not uncommon. On crossing the hills to 

 the plain of Xanthus we found the wild pome- 

 granate abundant, and in fruit ; also the vine, 

 which twined from tree to tree round the villages. 

 The herbage was parched, and very few plants were 

 in flower. White water-lilies, a species of Ranun- 

 culus, and a daisy (Bellis syhestris) were the 

 only kinds conspicuous. Before the end of 

 October the travellers made a journey into the 

 interior, the geographical and antiquarian results 

 of which have been narrated by Mr. Hoskyn in 

 a paper published in the Journal of the Royal 

 Geographical Society. During this journey many 



