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petioled, the rest with a short, winged petiole, auricled at base, all 

 lyrate-pinnatisect, the terminal segment cordate or hastate, 3-5-lobed, 

 the lateral lobes 2-3 on each side, decurrent, coarse-lobed. Peduncles 

 elongated, filiform; heads cylindrical; scales glabrous, the lower mi- 

 nute, ovate, the upper lanceolate, obtuse; flowers sulphur-colored; 

 akenes black, elliptical, compressed, 5-ribbed on each side, ending in a 

 short beak. 



Var. slnuata. Post (Bull. Herb. Boiss., iii, 159). Lowest leaves 

 not lobed, petiole narrow-winged, lamina obtusely 5-lobed or coarse- 

 serrate; stem-leaves auricled at base, sinuate or obscurely angled- 

 lobed on each side, ending in a broad-rhomboid, entire, coarse-serrate 

 lobe, or this lobe hastate, or 5-serrate-lobed and serrate — August and 

 September —Gaiour Dagh (Amanus). 



Page 491. After Z. glomerata, Cass. Z. Foxil, Post. .1 to 

 .25, glabrous; stems simple or forked. Boot-leaves linear-lanceolate, 

 tapering to a petiole, .06 to .08 long, .01 broad, coarsely incised-den- 

 tate and denticulate, with narrow, triangular teeth ending in a cartila- 

 ginous tip ; cauline leaves oblong, decurrent, irregularly coarse-serrate. 

 Heads solitary, .015 long, half to one-fourth as long as bracted pe- 

 duncles; scales oblong-ovate, white-tipped; akenes white, fungous, 

 appressed-silky, lateral wings hyaline, eroded, rather narrower than 

 akene; pappus silky, twice as long as akene, persistent — April — 

 Between Jebel Usdum and 'Ain Jidi. 



Page 503. Line 6, should be f t StyU glabrous Mow, hairy alove. 



Line 7, read, in place of TRACHELIUM, TRACHELIOPSIS. 



Page 507. Instead of TKACHEL.IUM. 

 TI^ACMEI^IOFSIS, Buser (Gen. Nov. Bull. Herb. Boiss., ii, 524). 



Flowers cream-colored, or pale blue. Sepals more or less linear, 

 erect or spreading. Corolla funnel-shaped, lobes oblong-triangular, 

 somewhat hooded at tip. Stamens 5, anthers linear, apiculate. Ovary 

 inferior, 3-celled, ovules numerous. Style twice as long as corolla, 

 glabrous below, hajry above, stigmas 3, lanceolate or Ungulate. _ Cap- 

 sule erect, pyriform, with pores at base. Seeds oblong, wheat-like or 

 almond-shaped, tawny or yellowish, glossy, somewhat lined — Peren- 

 nial herbs with fleshy root-stock and brittle stems. The two species 

 described under Trachelium, p. 508, belong to this genus. 



Page 526. After V. canescens. Y, parvillorum, D.C. .3 to 



.6; stems erect, puberulent, stiff-branched. Leaves somewhat fleshy, 

 rounded at base, petioled, ovate-oblong-obtusc] to lanceolate-tapering, 

 .03 to .06 long. Umbels axillary, sessile or peduncled ; pedicels longer 

 than flowers ; calyx-lobes triangular ; corolla yellowish-red or purple, 

 .003 broad, lobes oblong, obtuse; croion reduced to 5, short, 'purple 

 glands; follicles linear-lanceolate, glabrous, .00 long — July — Hauran. 

 Page 533. After a Myxa. C. Otaaraf, Forsk. 3 Ohara^. 3 

 to 5. Leaves short-petioled, oUong-spathulate, .04 to .06 long, .01 to 

 .015 broad, minutely puberulent, light-green. Cymes loose; calyx- 

 teeth broad-triangular, very short; corolla tube shorter than calyx, 

 lobes rounded; anthers barely exserted or included; stigmas linear- 

 club-shaped; drupe orange-colored, round-ovate, .007 long — July and 

 August — 'Ain- Jidi, 



