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Updated: May 31, 2025
The typical species has purplish flowers, with a crimson spot at the base of each petal, but others, varying in colour from snow-white to purple and blue, are common in cultivation. H. syriacus coelestis bears bright blue flowers, while H. syriacus variegatus has beautifully variegated foliage.
He is the ursus labiatus of naturalists; and we may find him in the plains of India, before reaching the Himalayas. "That is all, is it not?" "No, Ivan one more, and that will be the last." "What is he?" We shall have to visit Syria, to procure a skin of the ursus syriacus."
They encountered them standing in different attitudes all mounted in the most approved fashion. The Syrian bear was the only one not among them: as they had themselves brought his skin all the others having been sent home by "Parcels Delivery." In a few days, however, the ursus syriacus was set upon his legs; and the collection was complete.
In fact, his range upon the Syrian mountains is very similar to that of the "snow bear" on the Himalayas near the line of perpetual snow. The colour of the ursus syriacus is a light ash or fulvous brown, often with a hoary or silvery tinge but the colour varies at times to lighter and deeper shades.
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