. Bergens Museums skrifter. Science. 278 Remarks ou the most Importaut Plant-Societies of the Island. and no traveller can fail to notice these copse-woods that occupy such large parts of the surface of the island, perhaps mainly of the coast-tracts. The maquis-scrubs have a considerable part of their species in common partly with certain steppe- societies, especially the dwarfshrub-steppes, and partly with the woods of tlie island. They may be said to occupy an intermediate position between these societies, and in their various piincipal types they approach either the one or the other of thes
. Bergens Museums skrifter. Science. 278 Remarks ou the most Importaut Plant-Societies of the Island. and no traveller can fail to notice these copse-woods that occupy such large parts of the surface of the island, perhaps mainly of the coast-tracts. The maquis-scrubs have a considerable part of their species in common partly with certain steppe- societies, especially the dwarfshrub-steppes, and partly with the woods of tlie island. They may be said to occupy an intermediate position between these societies, and in their various piincipal types they approach either the one or the other of these co-ordinate societies. Where to draw the line between dwarfshrub- steppes and maquis on one side and between maquis and wood on the other, will always to some extent be subject to individual judgment. Scrub-societies, where together with Scmguisorha sphiosa, Thymus ccqntatus and other characteristic forms of the dwarfshrub-steppes, also the species of Cidus, Rhamni(!> oleoides, Fistacia Lentiscus, Tlujmelaea Tartonraira or other similar small shrubs occur, constituting i J. p. Foscolo, Phot. Fig. 109. Tlie Convent of Bella-Pays. The surrounding- Hills are chiefly covered with open Maquis-growths. I have thought it suitable to regard as maquis; these shrubs never occur in mentionable numbers in the typical steppe-societies. I have also, although with doubts, chosen to refer to the maquis-scrubs those copse-societies in which Junijterus phvenicea is the prevalent shrub; especially in the eastern part of the island they have a rather great distribution. These junipei-serubs might also with almost as much right be regarded as wood-societies, but as ./. phoenicea only exeptionally grows up to such dimensions as to obtain the character of a tree, and as especially the under-growth of these copses have so much in common with the other maquis-scrubs, 1 have considered it right to deal with them in connection with the maquis-societies. Also from a genetic point of view
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