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Racemes shorty loose. Laminae of lateral petals one-half or one-third as 

 long as claw. Spur ascending, thrice as long as flower. Follicles 

 glabrous^ somewhat divergent — Spring — Lesser desert. 



' * * * Follicles 3-5. Petals separate, setose, the upper ^-loled. 



IS. I>. Ithaburense, Boiss. 2f Sparingly pubescent. Stem 

 tall, angled, simple. Leaves pahnately -parted, segments cuneate, cut 

 and divided into oblong-linear lobes. Racemes rather dense. Flowers 

 Muish-ichite. Sepals pubescent without ; petals setose. Follicles hirsute, 

 tapering into a long beak — May and June — Valley to the north of 

 el Jebel el Ahmar, near Antioch, Mt. Tabor. 



12. PiEOXIA, L. Peony. Narmishlc. 



Sepals 5, persistent, leaf -like, unequal. Petals 5 or more. Follicles 

 2-5, dehiscent on their inner side — Perennial herbs, with 1-2 ternate 

 leaves, large showy flowers, and fleshy root-stock, bearing tuberous 

 fibres. 



P. corallina, Retz. If Leaves bi-ternate, glabrous, rarely 

 puberulent beneath, leaflets distinct, oblong-elliptical, entire. Flowers 

 rose-colored, 0.1 m. broad. Follicles woolly, becoming horizontal — 

 Spring — Woods, Cassius, Amanus, and northward. 



Var. triternata, Boiss. Leaflets round-ovate, frequently sub- 

 cordate, obtuse, or slightly acute — Afka. Amanus. 



Order II. BERBERIDACfliE. (Barberry Family.) 



Herbs or shruhs^ with alternate leaves^ with sepals and 

 petals hoth imbricated in the bud, in two rows. The hypo- 

 gynous stamens as many as the petals and opposite to them / 

 anthers adnate, opening by two elastic vaPoes at the top, 

 Ova/ry solitary, 1-celled. — Sepals 34-6. Petals as many, 

 or twice as many as sepals. Frnit a berry, or an inflated 

 capsule, irregularly torn at maturity. 



* Fruit an inflated capsule. Flowers panicled. 

 L BONGARDIA. Herbs. Leaves all radical. Capsule O.Ol m. long. 



2. LEONTICE. Herbs. Stem leafy. Capsule 0.02 m. to 0,03 m. long. 



* Fruit a small berry. Flowers in small, corymbose racemes. 



3. BERBERIS. Shrubs with 3-parted thorns. 



1. BOXOARDIA, C. A. Mey. 



Sepals 3-G, bracts 0. Petal 6, destitute of scale, but furnished with 

 a nectar-bearing pore at base. Stamens 6. Style short; stigma discoid, 

 plicate-lobed. Ovules 5-6, basilar. Fruit an inflated capsule, opening 

 when ripe by an irregular laceration ; seeds 1-4, globular — Glabrous 

 herbs, with leaves all radical, and root a large turnip-shaped conn, 

 0.20 m. or more beneath the surface of the soil. 



