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GENERAL REMARKS ON THE PENINSULA

In the foreft, through which the horfe-road leads from the Yailadown towards Kokos, I remarked fome ifolated, rather youngpines of the common fpecies (P.Jylveflris), that do not occurin any other part of Taurida, and the origin of which it isdifficult to explain. They were about ten or twelve innumber; and in the fame diftricT: I have feen the only wildService-tree growing in the Crimea.

Of junipers, there is one bearing red, and another producingblack-berries. The former feems to be the Juniperus Oxycedrus:it grows only as an inferior tree or brufh-wood, in a ftony foil,frequently in the open piain; has leaves like thofe of the com-mon juniper; and bears large red berries, divided into threeprotuberances, which do not acquire that colour tili they ripenin the following fpring, when the tree is again in bloflbm.The other, denominated Salma-Kara-Ardytßj, forms trunks,often more than a foot in diameter, the wood of which per-fe&ly refembles that of the Bermuda cedar, and poflefles afimilar odour. It grows ftraight like a cyprefs, attains to amoderate height, and the trunk may be lopped, after which itfhoots forth new branches. The green twigs are like thofeof the favin ; the berries are large, of a black colour when ripe,and covered with a bloom of a blueifh call.

To the trees above enumerated, the Yew ftill remains tobe added : it acquires a confiderable height and thicknefs inthe clefts and vallies of the Alps or Yaila, where it is by nomeans rare.

The following umbrageous trees occur in Crim-Tartary:

i. Two fpecies of oak, or Peled; the common, and thegrey dwarf oak, or Cerris, with acutely indented leaves

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