. Bergens Museums skrifter. Science. Remarks on the most Important Plant-Societies of the Island. 281 Aristolochia altissima, various species of Ticia and Lath/rus, Convolvuhis althaeoides, Galium Aparine, Ruhia tmctomm, R. OUvieri subsp. brachi/poda, Bri/onia dioica, B. cretica, and others. From tlie shrubs those climbing plants obtain the support they want in order to keep themselves erect and get also some protection against the attack of sheep, goats and other pasturing animals. A gigantic Cnscuta (C. monogynn) is frequently seen, particularly in the district of Limassol, parasiting on Pis
. Bergens Museums skrifter. Science. Remarks on the most Important Plant-Societies of the Island. 281 Aristolochia altissima, various species of Ticia and Lath/rus, Convolvuhis althaeoides, Galium Aparine, Ruhia tmctomm, R. OUvieri subsp. brachi/poda, Bri/onia dioica, B. cretica, and others. From tlie shrubs those climbing plants obtain the support they want in order to keep themselves erect and get also some protection against the attack of sheep, goats and other pasturing animals. A gigantic Cnscuta (C. monogynn) is frequently seen, particularly in the district of Limassol, parasiting on Pistacia Terehinthus, P. Lentiscus, exceptionally also on Ruhus ulmifolius and other maquis-. Fig. 111. Dense Growth of Lonicera etnisca, Ruhus ulmifolius subsp. anatolicus, C'ishis villosiis var. creticus, Berberis cretica, Periploca gracilis, etc., below Prodromo. shrubs. In several cases I have seen it climbing as far as a man's height on the plants to which it has attached itself. Its stem is thicker than a knotting-pin; the flowers are large and rose-coloured. It is also seen parasiting on the cultivated vine in the vine-yards, and is locally known as Xuxo? tou a(ji;taioj. Numerous herbs, annual as well as perennial, besides different species of grasses grow amonff the maquis-shrubs. It'would lead too far to enumerate each species here; iu place of this may be referred to the list appended at the end of this section. On the whole it must be said that these maquis belonc to those of the plant-societies of the island, which possess the greatest richness of species and has the most varied composition. Especially iti the spring-months the plants of these Shinia-maquis offer a gay show of flowers. Duiing summer most of the plants fade away; some of them, however, will always bo found in flower, and even in September, at a time when the soil is dry and intensely heated, new flowers. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally en
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