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new -globe, thistle , which we have named echinops grandi- 
elora, made a most superb appearance : it grew to such a size, 
that some of its blossoms were near three inches in diameter, 
forming a .sphere equal in bulk to the largest fruit of the pome¬ 
granate. Its leaves and stem, while living,.exhibited a dark 
but vivid sky-blue colour. The description in (he note is taken 
from its appearance in a dried state. The Persian manna 
plant , or lie dys arum alhagi , which we had collected between 
Acre and Nazareth, also flourished here abundantly. This 
thorny vegetable is said to be the favourite food of the camel :* 
it is found wild, in Syria, Palestine, Persia, Egypt, Mesopo¬ 
tamia, Armenia, Georgia, and the islands of Tenos, Syra, and 
Cy prus. Tonrnefort, who considered it as a plant stri generis, 
has given a description of it, in his account of the Island of 
Syra. j Ran wolf, who discovered it in 1537, in the vicinity of 
Aleppo, and in Persia, often mentions it in his travels.! As we 
have called origanum pestitum. Origanum foliis subcardato-ovatis, petiolatis, 
" integerrimis, utrinque tomenlosis mollissimis spicis subrotundo-ovatis, peduncu- 
latis.compactis tomentosis subternis caule suffruticoso. Flanta ramosa, tomenr- 
toso incana. Folia nervosa quinque lineas longa, ssepius reflexa Spicss breves 
valde tomentoses, basi constipates, subternas. Calyx bilabiatus obovatus, fauee 
lanuginosus. Coroll a'gracilis, glanduloso-punctata. Stylo exserta. Stigmata 
reflexa. 
I V. A shrubby non-descript species of Globe Thistle , -which we have called Echinops 
Grandifloha. Echinops caule suffrutescente scabro, foliis bipinnatis supra 
scahris, subtus tomentosis, laciniis perangustis; eapitulis globosis pedunculatia 
arnplis. Cauiis sulcatus fuscus, subflexuosus. Folia subtus albida, mollissima, 
supra sordid© virentia, hispida; laciniaa lineari subulatae. Capitulatae. Capituia 
polfices, quos cum dimidio seu tres diametro, coerulei. Florum pedirelli papposi. 
Squammae calycinae exteriores imbricatae lanceolato suhulatae, infra medium 
integerrinae; supra contractae dentate-ciliatae acutissimae: squama intima bre- 
vior tubulata, quinquefida, aplcibus laciniatis. Corollae limbus tubo brevior quin- 
quepartitus laciniis sublinearibus. Stigmata reflexa. Semina hirsuta, eoronata ; 
corona striata, ciljata submembranacea. 
A non-descript species of Aim, with the outer valve of the coralla three-awned, 
and the flowers in a close panicle, as in the Aim pubescens. We have called it 
aira TRiARisTATA. Aira panicula spiciformi, oblongS.; corollae valv& exteriore 
calyce nervoso dimidio breviore, triaristata; vaginis foliorum ventricosis, am- 
plissimis. This is a dwarf species, with the leafy culms often shorter than the 
oblong heads of the flowers. Both the leaves and their sheaths are deeply 
striated, and downy. The flowers are set veryclose together in the panicles, 
which vary, from about an inch and a half to two and a half inches in length. 
The glumes of the calyx are of a linear-lanceolate shape, deeply furrowed, and 
downy. The inner valve of the corolla is slenderer and shorter than the outer 
vale, slightly notched at the end, and without awns; the two lateral awns 
of the outer valve are about the length of the calyx ; the central one, a third 
part longer. 
TI A non descript shrubby species of cistus , with rough alternate leaves, about 
tAvo thirds ©f their length distant from each other on the branches. We have 
called it cistus oligophyllus. Cistus stipulatus, fruticosus, foliis alternis 
ovatolanceolatis, enerviis, iutegerrimis, seabris. pilosis, margine revolutis ; pe- 
dunculis unifloris ; calycis foliolis inasqualibus, hirsutis. Fruticulus ramosus, 
rami flexuosi, graciles, supra villosi Folia pet-iolata patentia, lineas quatuor 
ionga. Petioli brevissimi, pilosi. Calycis foliola in&qualia duo angusta, tria 
quadruple latiora, nervosa. Corolla flava. 
Forskal’s Flora, p. 136. 
t Voyage du Levant, tom. II. p. 4. Lyons , 1717. 
t See pp. 84 152 20S. Lond. 1693. Also, the end of Mr. Ray's Collection of 
Travels, “ Slirpiwm Oricnlalivm raiionsm Catalegus .” Alhagi 
