. Bergens Museums skrifter. Science. x. Brief Survey of the Affinities and History of the Cyprian Flora. Cyprus is situated between the three continents, Asia, Eui'ope and Africa, and in the vegetation of the island it is easy to trace certain features, indicating connections with each of these parts of the world. The vegetation is of a marived Mediterranean character, the plant-societies as well as the majority of the individual species being the same as those usually met with in the countries situated around the eastern part of the Mediterranean. The concspondence is greatest with the tracts
. Bergens Museums skrifter. Science. x. Brief Survey of the Affinities and History of the Cyprian Flora. Cyprus is situated between the three continents, Asia, Eui'ope and Africa, and in the vegetation of the island it is easy to trace certain features, indicating connections with each of these parts of the world. The vegetation is of a marived Mediterranean character, the plant-societies as well as the majority of the individual species being the same as those usually met with in the countries situated around the eastern part of the Mediterranean. The concspondence is greatest with the tracts situated nearest on the Asiatic continent. "T^a flore de Chypre est une selection entre les plantes de Syrie, de Cilicie et de. Fig. 140. Tlie chief Currents of the Mediterranean. (After J. X. Nielsen, \U\:i). Pamphylie" says an eminent authority on Oi'iental plants, G. E. Post; especially he points out that the vegetation of Messaria almost fully corresponds with that of the marilime plains of Syria'). Least prominent is the correspondence with the vegetation on the North-African coast. In reality it is not greater than allowing its being explained, at any rate in most instances, by the ti'ansport of seeds across the sea. In this connection may be mentioned that the most important sea-curi'ent in the eastern Mediterranean goes eastwards along the coast of Tripoli and Egypt, turns hence northwards along the Syrian coast, passes Cyprus, and continues westwards along the southern coast of Asia-Minor (Fig. 140). Except on the sea-shores and in the salt-water-marshes along the coasts, scarcely a plant is found on Cyprus which it is quite necessary to consider as being immigrated from North-Africa without the inter- ference of man. As an instance of a plant, which must in all probability be supposed to have immigrated across the ocean from the south, may be mentioned the little yellow-flowered composit, Chlaniijdoiihora 1) G. E. Post et E. Authan, Plantæ Postianæ, Fase.
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