. Bergens Museums skrifter. Science. 268 Remarks on the most Important Plant-Societies of the Island. low thorny shrubs Prosopis Stephaniana, Paliurus avstralis and Sangidsorha spmosa, of which the steppe- societies of the island are rarely destitute; moreover a series of different plants with subterranean tubers, bulbs or the like, as 7//*' Sisyrhichiiim, various Liliaceae, among- which is the high white-flowered Asphodehts ;Y/mos«<.s'subsp. microcarjms, Mandraqora offichiantm. Leontodon tidierosinn subsp. OUvieri and others. From my diary some notes will here be quoted from the steppe-lan
. Bergens Museums skrifter. Science. 268 Remarks on the most Important Plant-Societies of the Island. low thorny shrubs Prosopis Stephaniana, Paliurus avstralis and Sangidsorha spmosa, of which the steppe- societies of the island are rarely destitute; moreover a series of different plants with subterranean tubers, bulbs or the like, as 7//*' Sisyrhichiiim, various Liliaceae, among- which is the high white-flowered Asphodehts ;Y/mos«<.s'subsp. microcarjms, Mandraqora offichiantm. Leontodon tidierosinn subsp. OUvieri and others. From my diary some notes will here be quoted from the steppe-lands near Vatili, in the middle of the large plain of Messaria. At the time of my visit, in the first days of April 1905, StijM tortilis and Asphodelus ramnsus subsp. mierocarpus were the most prominent species of these steppes. A very great part of the plain is here cultivated, and is occupied by large, rich fields. The original character of steppe is chiefly preserved only in the most shallow places, where the soil over the hard conglomerate- and sandstone-flats, which cover the marl-strata underneath, only has a depth of up to ca. '/i meter, and sometimes merely a few centimeters. This especially applies to the most elevated tracts of the plain, where the lock rises scutiformly, forming low, more or less salient convexities. In such a steppe not far west of the village I found the following vegetation. Stipa tortilis, Hurdeum miirinum, Drachypodhim d'lstarhyum. Bronius squarrosutt, Lagurus ovatufi, Psilurus ari- status, Triticum ovatttm. Koehleria phleoides and Arena harhata subsp. Wiestii form large grass-mats, which cannot, however, be said to be very dense. Especially Stipa plays a predomi- nant part here, its soft panicles with the long and glossy awns are waving at the lightest wind. There are only a few low shrubs. Indeed Sanguism-ha spinosa is found, but it is of quite inferior importance; some scarce specimens of Thymus capitatux, however, were seen, having as yet nei
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