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illustration of these remarks, and amongst the varieties is a 
fruiting example of C. monogyna var. pinnatijida, from 
Arnside, Westmoreland. 
^‘List of Desert Plants collected at Ramleh, near Alex- 
andria, Egypt, from September, 1875, to April, 1876,” by 
H. A. Huest, Esq. 
In placing before the section a list of the plants collected 
during the winter of 1875* — 1876, at Ramleh, Egypt, I 
may remark that there is another place of the same name 
in Palestine, between Joppa and Jerusalem. In both cases 
I believe the name to be derived from the Arabic R-M-L, 
signifying sand ; its derivative Ramleh being used to express 
a desert. It is a narrow slip of undulating sandy ground, 
between the Lake Maadieh on the right hand, looking 
north, and the sea on the left. It abuts on the ground, 
where Csesar had his camp, B.C. 48, remnants of which 
remained till lately, when its traces were almost 
completely effaced by Ismael Pacha, the stones being taken 
to build one of his many palaces. This is a very striking 
building, at present uninhabited, and one of Egypt’s many 
monuments to waste. Ramleh is interesting to the English- 
man, as the site of the Battle of Alexandria in 1801, when 
the English, under Sir Ralph Abercromby, defeated the 
French, who were then in possession of Egypt. It will be 
remembered that the leader fell, mortally wounded, in the 
action. 
At the present moment the place bears much the same 
relation to Alexandria which Bowdon does to Manchester, 
or Richmond to London. There is a railway running to it 
