No. II.

A

LIST OF ALL THE PLANTS

COLLECTEd during THESE TRAVELS,

IN GREECE, EGYPT, AND THE HOLY LAND.

ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED.

N. B. In this List will be found about sixty NEW SPECIES; the distinctive characters of which being fully described in the Notes to the Three Sections of PART THE SECOND, the Generic names only of the new-discovered Plants are now given.

When the name of no Botanical writer occurs after the specific appellations of Plants which have been described by other authors, that of Linnæus is to be understood.

The English vulgar names, having often no reference to the Latin, but being sometimes quite at variance with them, were placed before the scientific appellations in the body of the work; but as this could not be done consistently with an alphabetical arrangement, they have been now introduced as they were placed in the Appendix to the FIRST PART of these Travels; immediately following the Linnæan. Perhaps it might have been as well if they had been wholly omitted; but there are persons who desire their insertion.

N. B. This is a low, branching, shrubby plant, varying from about six inches to a foot, or more, in height. The leaves are nearly oval, disposed in whorls on the stem, and turned back at their edges, with a little bristly fringe on each side towards their foot-stalks. The flowers grow solitary, generally in the forks of the stem, but sometimes also at the ends of the branches; and, as they wither without falling off, are found upon the plant long after its season of flowering. The lower part of the calyx is bristly. The plant is yet unknown to the Editors of the Species Plantarum, and only published in the Flora Egyptiaco-Arabica of Forskahl.