Definitionn. small to medium-sized evergreen shrubs of southern Europe and North Africa
Last update: September 2, 2015
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The sugar-cane flourishes, the cotton-plant ripens to perfection, date-trees are seen in the gardens, the rocks are clothed with the prickly-pear or Indian fig, the enclosures of the fields are formed by aloes and sometimes pomegranates, the liquorice-root grows wild, and the mastic, the myrtle and many varieties of oleander and cistus form the underwood of the natural forests of arbutus and evergreen oak. [Please select]
They reached an open moor, where there were rocks covered with cistus and wild vine. [Please select]
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The _caterpillar_, which feeds on _Erodium Cicutarium_, and perhaps on _Helianthemum_ (Rock Cistus), is green, with pale spots on the back, and a brownish line down the middle. [Please select]
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But such facts hardly aid us in determining whether to rank these forms as species or varieties; for it is now known that undoubted species of Verbascum, Cistus, Primula, Salix, etc. [Please select]
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