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Leguminosce, among which Anagyris fostida is 

 especially conspicuous, and sure to attract the 

 attention of the traveller when loaded with its 

 singular inflated pods. The dwarf holly-oak (Quer- 

 cus coccifera) is abundant everywhere. The 

 Salep orchis abounds. The walnut is the most 

 plentiful and conspicuous tree around the villages. 

 Vineyards and tobacco fields yield rich produce 

 in this zone. Many common British herbs at- 

 tract attention here — the primrose, the pimpernel, 

 the dog-violet, the pansy, and the self-heal. 

 Everywhere the Lamium maculatum, is plentiful. 

 Such ferns as do occur are chiefly found here. 

 Maples are frequent, as are also willows, chaste- 

 trees, the Rhus cotinus, and the tamarisk. The 

 carob is common here as well as in the Lowlands. 



III. Region of the yailahs or mountain table- 

 lands. The yailahs of Almalee, three thousand 

 six hundred feet above the sea, of Seydeleer four 

 thousand, of Cibyra three thousand five hundred, 

 and of Stenez three thousand three hundred, 

 furnished us with our chief collections from this 

 region. They are very even and apparently flat, 

 though really sloping plains, each watered by a 

 stream, and either continually or for a portion of 

 the year presenting a lake at the lower extre- 



