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served were a beautiful white Narcissus, which 

 flowered luxuriantly on grassy plots in a little 

 island off the coast of Persea, and Clematis cir- 

 rhosa, twining over shrubs in the islands of the 

 Gulph of Macri, and covered with a profusion of 

 white flowers. The wild olive was loaded with 

 ripe fruit, and the pods on the carob tree were 

 beginning to shew. 



With the new year new plants appeared ; and 

 conspicuously the Anemone coronaria, which first 

 sent out a scattered blossom here and there 

 among the grass, but soon covered the fields and 

 plains with a gorgeous carpet of crimson and 

 purple. Then the common daisy came up to 

 take the place of Bellis syhestris, which quickly 

 disappeared. Rivalling the Anemone in beauty, and 

 profusion, and taking its place in rugged ground, 

 appeared the Triehonema bulbocodium. The almond 

 and the tree-spurge (Euphorbia dendroides) began 

 to flower. In the plains were flowering some 

 other species of Euphorbia. The mandrake was 

 occasionally met with. In the cultivated grounds 

 Veronica cymbalaria and agrestis, Cardamine hir- 

 suta and Erodium cicutarium were the flowering 

 weeds. 



February called forth many additions to the 



