44 RANUNCULACEJS. (CKOWFOOT FAMILY.) 



Var. caiidata, Boiss. Carpels united to their middle only — 

 Vineyards and fields near Aintab. 



2. N. deserti, Boiss. 0.02 m. to 0.04 in height. Flowers 

 small. Petals short-clawed ; inner lip nearly as long as outer. Car- 

 pels 3, adlierentfor one third of their lengthy 3-nerved below, 5-nerved 

 above ; leak a little longer than ovary — Spring — From El Balqa to the 

 Tih, and southward. 



3. ]V. stellari§, Boiss. Flowers medium-sized. Petals long- 

 clawed ; inner lip about half as long as outer. Carpels 5, lanceolate, 

 keeled, adherent for one fourth of their length, 1-nerved ; leak tic ice or 

 three times as long as ovary — Spring — Fields, Kessab ; Lattakia. 



4. IV, satiTa, L. Nutmeg-Flower. ^j^\ if- • •\3^-i\ lJ\ Flowers 

 large. Petals short-clawed ; inner lip nearly as long as outer. Carpels 

 5-7, inflated, warty at sides, united to ajyex ; heaJcaslong as ovary — 

 Spring — Fields, Egypt. The black seeds of this species are siir inked over 

 some kinds of bread in the East, 



Var. brachyloba, Boiss. Densely branched, hirsute. Cap- 

 sule very warty — Aintab and westward. 



* * Flowers yellowish- white. Inner lip of petals 'very short . 

 Carpels flattened. 



5. N. Orieiitali§, L. Lobes of leaves rigid. Sepals gla- 

 brous. Petals short-clawed ; exterior lobe ovate, short-bifid. Carpels 

 united for half their length ; nerves three, distant, connected by transverse 

 veins — May — Amanus and eastward. 



6. N. oxypetala, Boiss. Lobes of upper leaves often oblong- 

 lanceolate. Sepals glabrous. Petals minute, clawed ; external lip 

 broader than long, somewhat ^-lobed, lateral lobes short, round ; 

 intermediate lobes dissected into bristles longer than stamens. Carpels 

 united beyond middle ; nerves 3, approximate- — May — Fields, Aintab 

 to Aleppo. 



Var. IVocana, Boiss. Petals long-clawed — Bludan. 



Var. tennifolia, Boiss. Lobes of leaves slender. Petals long- 

 clawed — Aintab . 



7. IV. eiliaris, D.C. Sepals hispid. Petals clawed ; outer 

 lip cuneate, bifid, with long, linear, hispid lobes. Carpels 5-15, 

 hispid, adherent for a little more than ^ their length, prominently 

 3-nerved — April to June — Fields, Syi"ia and Palestine. 



11. DELPHINIUM, L. Larkspur. ^\g, 



Sepals 5, irregular, pctaloid, the uppermost spurred or helmet 

 shaped. Petals generally 4, the upper two prolonged into spurs, 

 which are included in the spurs of the calyx, and all separate, or 

 united into a monopetalous spurred corolla. Follicles 1-5 separate — 

 Annual or perennial herbs. 



