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- Title
Maltese Butterflies.
- Authors
FRASER, GEORGE
- Abstract
IN reading Mr. Wallace's 'Darwinism' I am reminded by his observations on Island fauna (p. 106) of the impressions made upon me by the natural productions of Malta. My time was so fully occupied that I had little opportunity of exploring the country districts. I paid one visit to the extraordinary ruins of a Phœnician temple at Hagiar Kim, and one to the curious islet in St. Paul's Bay. On the latter I noticed several strange thistles and a beautiful flower-something like a large pink or purplish Tutsan. On the barren wastes round Hagiar Kim many familiar wild flowers grew, but all seemed shrunk and shrivelled as compared with those of Britain. The only unfamiliar one was called by the natives 'the English flower.' It was a tall trefoil with a drooping yellow trumpet-flower (not at all papilionaceous in form), and grew plentifully by the edges of the dustiest roads-unlike anything I know in England.
- Publication
Nature, 1890, Vol 41, Issue 1053, p199
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/041199a0