138 BOTANY OF MYRA. 



Fritillaria meleagris, but is very distinct from 

 that species. Its flowers are striped in broad 

 flames, with purple, yellow, and green, but never 

 tesselated. We met with it afterwards in rocky 

 gorges leading from the plain of Phineka. 



Our rest at Myra enabled us to make it a 

 botanical station, in which, however, the pro- 

 fusion of plants new to us rather embarrassed 

 us with its riches. The plain was covered by 

 anemones and asphodels, varied by the grace- 

 fully-drooping shrubs of Passerina hirsuta. 

 The thickets on the hill -side among the 

 tombs, and by the theatre were filled with 

 curious and rare plants, and the seats and 

 arena of the theatre itself afforded a rich 

 harvest. Here grew Aloe vulgaris, not yet 

 in flower, and the castor-oil tree (Ricinus com- 

 munis), the white henbane, the Cynoglossum 

 pictum, the PJilomis fruticosa, forming great 

 bushes, covered with hoary leaves, and crowned 

 with heads of bright yellow flowers, the Smilax 

 and Tamus, and the Lentisk. A host of Legu- 

 minosce exhibited flowers of every hue and size : 

 species of Pisum, Lathyrus, Vicia, Onobrychis, 

 Scorpiurus, Trigonella, Medicago, Coronilla, and 

 Trifolium. Perhaps the most beautiful was the 



