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44_12 Lebanon Mts. to Tripoli Syria. No. 11,511. Phlomis viscosa Poir. Labiatoid. Many stems in a clump forming a bush 2 to 4 ft. high and 3 to 5 ft. broad. Flowers a somewhat dull or buckskin yellow. With 11,510 in the open rolling lowlands. See p. -No. 11,512. Pyrus syriaca Boiss. One individual; in an uncut area, hillslope where native shrubs and trees grow wild - but perhaps an escape nevertheless. 14 ft. h. No. 11,513. Rosa dumetorum Thuill. Corolla white. Pink fl. shrubs also close by. Footshills. This is below Becharre at the lower levels. No. 11,514. Prunus halapensis Mill. Trees becoming 20 to 40 ft. high, possibly 50 ft. Forming a forest. See spool no. 1, photo |
44_13 May 9, 1926 No. 6. p. 9. This is the only wild or as if wild forest I have seen in either Syria or Palestine. It covers a sharp and very rocky western slope not merely unsuitable, but impossible for cultivation. The forest is quite dense - for this land - and forms in a major part of the area a crown cover. It is mixed with Cupressus sempervirens. Roughly guessed at it covers 200 or 300 acres. It can be seen from the foothills and is very prominent as a blotch on the mountainside. The locality is perhaps a little over half-way down from Becharre. A short distance beyond it we run out around a prominent point - which carries a conspicuous church. -No. 11,525 Pistacia terebinthus L. var. palaestina (Boiss.) Post. With 11,512. Very rocky slope. Tree 8 in. in diam. of trunk and |
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