Abstract
In this paper we attempt to identify true species of the Moroccan flora through somewhat marvellous accounts by Strabo, Geography, XVII, 3, 4-5, and Pliny, Natural History, V, 14. So Strabo's « reeds like those of India » are recognized as a wild kind of sugar-cane and its stout and excessively high « asparagus » as sprouts of Cistanche. The amazing tree of Pliny appears to have taken its cypress-like characters from the Barbarian thuja and its textile flocks from the fibrous stem of the dwarf palm. But a genuine document is to find in the description by Pliny (V, 16) of endemic cactoid spurges, the very caustic sap of which was cautiously gathered for a medicinal purpose.
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