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Pase 355. Last line but one. In place of A. Pfusianus. A. gos- 

 sypinus. 



Page 359. After A. eallichrous. A. Moabiticus, Post. .05 

 to .1, sparingly hairy, diffuse. Leaves .035 long; leaflets 5-8 pairs, el- 

 liptical, obtuse, .006 long, .003 broad. Heads a little larger than a mar- 

 rowfat pea, 4-6-flowered, peduncle as long as leaf or shorter; calyx 

 ■white-and-black-hairy, teeth linear-setaceous, as long as tube ; corolla 

 violet; lamina of vexillum obovate-retuse ; pod * * — April — Between 

 Mashatta and Ziza (Moab). 



Page 361. After A. honibycinus. A. Palmyren§i8, Post (Plan- 

 tse Postianae, i, 6). .4 to .5, crisp-white-and-black- villous ; stems 

 prostrate. Leaflets 8-10 pairs, obovate, .008 long, retuse, rather remote. 

 Racemes loosely 5-10-flowered, peduncle shorter than leaf; calyx-teeth 

 as long as tube; corolla white, .03 long; pods oblong, incurved, white- 

 fleecy — April — Wells of Abu Fadil, west of Palmyra. 



Page 36S. In place of A, Prusianus, Boiss. A. gossypinns, 



Fisch. 5 . 3 to ,4 ; branches long, loosely spiny ^ woolly canescent. Spines 

 .03 to .08 long; stipules ovate at base, abruptly cuspidate, at length 

 glabrescent; leaflets 4-8 pairs, ovate to obovate-oblong, .005 to .01 long, 

 long-prickly, woolly-canescent. Axils oo -flowered, forming ovate or 

 globular, terminal heads, a little smaller than a walnut; bracts oblong, 

 boat-shaped, villous at upper part of back ; calyx .007 long, woolly- 

 canescent — Summer — Bashlamish, base of Amanus, and eastward. 



Page 369. In place of Var. alpimcs. Post. Var. filagineu§, 

 Boiss. Heads scarcely larger than a filbert, often crowded together at 

 tip of branch. Spines .03 to .03 long, those of heads leafless. Leaflets 

 3-4 pairs, .003 to .006 long— Top of Akher Dagh. 



Page 369. Before A. psilacmos. A, exig:uu§, Post (Plantae 

 Postianae, in, 7). 2( .04 to .05, heads Just emerging from shingle ; 

 trunk vertical ; branches numerous, ascending, covered with imbricated, 

 dead petioles. Leaves few, .013 to .018 long, forming an involucre to 

 the heads, and mixed with the flowers ; spines yellow, short ; stipules 

 ovate, acute, scarious; leaflets 1-4 pairs, lenticular, .006 to .01 long, 

 white-silky, prickly-mucronate, much longer than petiolar spine. Axils 

 4-6-flowered, crowded into cocoony, globular, terminal heads, larger 

 than a filbert ; bracts ovate-oblong, acute, shorter than calyx, fleecy ; 

 calyx fleecy, split to base, .013 long; corolla shorter than calyx, cream- 

 colored — July — Shingle; top of Sudr-esh-Sheikh-'Ali (Antilebanon). 



A. Antiochiaiius, Post. If .3 to .3; branches yellow, loosely 

 leafy, densely tomentellous between stipules, beset with old spines at 

 base. Spines .03 to .05 long; stipules ovate-triangular, cuspidate- 

 tapering, tomentellous toward base, glabrescent toward tip; leaflets 6-8 

 pairs, oblong, tapering at base and tip, .006 long, .003 broad, spiny- 

 mucronate, longer than petiolar spine, appressed-silky, pale green. 

 Axils 5-6-flowered, crowded into an ovate or globular head, .03 to .05 

 long, intermixed with leaf-bearing spines ; bracts linear, tapering, long- 

 villous at back, nearly as long as calyx; calyx .009 long, villous, teeth 

 longer than tube — August — Near Antioch. 



Page 370. After A. Bethlemiticus. A. Barbeyanii§, Post 

 (Plantae Postianae, v, 5). ^ .3, erinaceous; branches beset with old, 

 weak, spreading, blackish spines. Stipules lanceolate, glabrous, the 



