140 AROUND LIMYRA. 



R. millefoliatus, Scrophularia lucida, Smyrnium 

 perfoliatum, a beautiful blue Convolvulus (siculus f) 

 and Lamium moschatum were among the strangers. 

 We gathered many kinds of grasses and sedges 

 in the meadows. Alders and hawthorns were 

 here common ; and the ravines by the hills were 

 full of oleanders not yet in flower, and groves of 

 bay-laurels (Laurus nobilis). The woods were 

 chiefly of oak. Among the ruins of Limyra the 

 plants were those of Myra, with the addition of 

 new forms of trefoil and vetch. The pretty little 

 Coronilla iberica was in full flower. 



The first week of April was spent in the 

 plain of Phineka, and the valleys which lead 

 out of it. The natives were cutting grass for 

 hay ; and in their fields we found many spring- 

 plants in flower, with which hitherto we had 

 not met. We added also to our list of Orchids. 

 In the meadows of the plain Orchis undulatifolia 

 was in full blossom, and on the chalky hills 

 Oplirys tenthredinifera and apifera, with other 

 species new to us. Trifolium stellatum and to- 

 mentosum, several species of Ranunculus, Scandu? 

 australis, Lagurus ovatus, and Plantago creticus 

 were gathered around Armootlee and Cory- 

 dalla ; also some familiar British plants, as 



