Among the land plants may be noted the blue anemone the ranunculus along the road-sides, with a strong perfume of violets the Malta heath, which flowers at all seasons Cynomorium coccineum, the curious " Malta fungus," formerly so valued for medicinal purposes that a guard was set for its preservation under the rule of the Knights the pheasant's-eye three species of mallow and geranium Oxalis cernua, a very troublesome imported weed Lotus edulis Scorpiurus subvillosa, wild and cultivated as forage two species of the horseshoe-vetch the opium poppy the yellow and claret-coloured poppy wild rose Cartaegus azarolus, of which the fruit is delicious preserved the ice-plant squirting cucumber many species of Umbelliferae Labiatae, to which the spicy flavour of the honey (equal to that of Mt Hymettus) is ascribed snapdragons broom-rape glass-wort Salsola soda, which produces when burnt a considerable amount of alkali there are fifteen species of orchids the gladiolus and iris are also found Urginia scilla, the medicinal squill, abounds with its large bulbous roots near the sea seventeen species of sedges and seventy-seven grasses have been recorded. If something is curious, it means its odd, strange or unusual. High quality example sentences with i am very curious in context from reliable sources - Ludwig is the linguistic search engine that helps you to write.
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