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UPLAND REGION. 



of the genera Echium, Lycopsis, Lithospermum, and 

 Anckusa, among the Borage tribe, and Echinops 

 and Carthamus among the Thistles. 



Plants, curious rather for aspect than for 

 beauty, as Lapsana stellata, Hedypnois rhagadio- 

 loides, Salvia horminum, Ziziphora capitata, Hyme- 

 nocarpus circinatus, Trigonetta, Biserrula, An- 

 drachne, and Aristolochia, arrest the attention of 

 the botanist at every turn. 



By the sea-shore, in many places, kinds of 

 Statice abound. The most beautiful is the Statice 

 sinuatum, which covers the interstices of bare 

 and waste rocks, with its handsome lilac flowers 

 and wavy foliage — the more pleasant to look 

 upon, since in early summer, except some 

 bushy and ugly, though strongly-scented Labiatce 

 there is little else of verdure to attract the eye 

 in such places. 



II. Region of mountain-slopes and sea- ward 

 uplands. This is the chief realm of the oak and 

 pine-forests, for which Karamania is famous. It 

 is botanically a region of transition, wherein 

 the flora of the sunburnt lowlands is mingled 

 with more temperate forms and with the charac- 

 teristic plants of the table-land of Asia Minor. It 

 abounds in species of broom, and other shrubby 



