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10)Study of the existence of God (8)

12) Cotton fabric with a checked pattern (7)

15) Wash lightly; your 5)across might give you a blue one!(5)

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The climax vegetation of the Up per Rock is what is known as maquis.This is consists of a dense, sometimes impenetrable, mass of small trees and shrubs, together with a number of climbing plants. Ground cover is provided by those species which can put up with the lower light level allowed through by the canopy. A richer variety is found in any clearings in the maquis, and along footpaths and roadsides.

The principal trees of the maquis are the wild olive {Olca europaea), osyris (0.syn'.s quadripnrtita), Medi terranean buckthorn {Rhainnuii alaternus),lentisc(Pistacia lettHscus), and terebinth {Pistacia terebinthiis).

All these trees produce berries which are an important food source for birds and other animals. The fruit of the wild olive is a favourite of the monkeys, and it is common to see the monkeys with dark bluepurple "lipstick" as a result of feast ing on them. The lentisc and terebinth are of the same family as the popular pistachio nuts. The leaves of these two trees give off a strong resinous smell when crushed. The buckthorn is easily confused with the olive, but they can be told apart from the fact that the buckthorn's leaves are greener than those of the olive, which are more grey-green,especially under neath. The buckthorn's leaves are also slightly toothed.

Other common small trees or shrubs are the scorpion vetch (Coronilla vali'iitiuu s.sp, glauca), lo cally known as St Patrick's flower, and the spiny broom (Calicotomc i'i7/os«). The yellow flowers of these two plants give off a wonderful scent which wafts around the Up per Rock during early spring. The yellow-flowered wild jasmine (Ja^miuutv frufiain^) is also quite common, but the flowers lack the scent of the cultivated forms. Also very common is the white aspara gus (Asparagus aWus). These very spiny shrubs have white stems and thorns, and produce tiny, white, sweet-scented flowers at the end of summer or beginning of autumn. At the time of flowering, they lack their narrow green leaves.

More information on Gi braltar's ivildflowers can be obtainedfrom the book The Flowers of Gibraltar written by Leslie Linares, Arthur Harper and John Cortes. Available from local bookshops.