SILENE^. (pink family.) 125 



.02 to .03 long, teeth lanceolate ; limb icldtisli^ obovate, entire or den- 

 tate — Summer — Amauus and northward. 



Var. inacrolcpi§, Post. Scales 8, lanceolate, nearly half as long 

 as calyx-tube — Woods above Karah-Jurn^ northern Cassius. 



Var. toracliylepis, Boiss. Scales 8, mucronate — Aintab. 



8. I>. floritowndus, Boiss. 2^ .3 to .5, many-stemmed from an 

 indurated rootstock ; stems panicled-corymbose to simple, 1-2-flowered. 

 Leaves rigid, linear, with scabrous margins, 3-5-nerved, lateral nerves 

 at margin. Flowers .01 broad ; scales 4-6, white-margined, mucro- 

 nate, oblong, two-fifths as long as .02 long calyx-tube ; calyx-teeth 

 lanceolate, white-margined ; limb ixde-innk^ oblong, deeply toothed — 

 Summer — Marash and northward. Too nearD. Anatolicus, from which 

 it differs principally in its dentate not crenate limb. 



Var. prumosus, Boiss. Lower leaves and stems pruinose — 

 Aintab, Marash, and northward. 



Var. Kerliaiiicu§, Post. Indument as in last. Stems 1-2-flower- 

 ed — Kerhan, near Marash. 



§ 3 FIMBRIA TI. 



9. I>. Libanotis, Labill. If .3 to .6, stems thick, angidar, stiffs 

 corymbose, rarely simple. Leaves glaucous, linear-lanceolate, often 

 5-nerved, the radical rather obtuse, the stem leaves .006 to. 008 broad, 

 acute, often spreading recurved. Flowers 2-3 together, rarely solitary, 

 .02 broad ; scales .01 to .02 long, ovate, tempering into a lanceolate, re- 

 curved, spiny tip; calyx tube .03 long, with lanceolate teeth J its 

 length ; limb pale, obovate-cuneate, reddish spotted at base, fringed 

 to its middle — May to July — Mt. St. Catlierine, Sinai. Alpine Leba- 

 non. Jebel Quleb, Hauran. Table land of Damascus and northward. 



10. I>. §nperl>iis, L. 2j! . 6 or more, stems usually single, more 

 or less paniculate or corj^mbose above. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 3-5- 

 nerved, the upper acuminate. Flowers .02 or more broad, usually 

 solitary. Scales ovate, mucronate, one-third as long as .02 long calyx- 

 tube ; calyx-teeth lanceolate, mucronate ; limb pink, pnirple hearded, 



fringed nearly to hase — Summer — Ccslesyria. Perhaps escaped from 

 cultivation. 



11. I>. fiinbriatus, M. B. 2f .2 to .3, many-stemmed, woody 

 at base ; stems erect, slender, simple, rarely stiff- branched. Leaves 

 .01 to .03 long, linear aid-shaped^, scabrous-margined. Flowers .02 

 broad, solitary ; scales oblong, mucronate, one-third to one-half as long 

 as .02 long calyx-tube ; calyk-teeth lanceolate, mucronate ; limb pink, 

 gldlyrous or hearded at dase, fringed to half its length — August and 

 September — Alpine regions of Amauus and northward. 



Var. brevifolius, Boiss. Leaves very short. Limb elongated, 

 long-bearded — Cedars of Lebanon. 



12. D. pog^onopctalii§, Boiss. et Ky. 21 Many-stemmed, 

 woody at base, ; stems ascending, 1-flowered. Leaves linear, rigid, 3- 

 nerved, shorter than joint. Scales oblong, abruptly acuminate, with 

 narrow membranous margins, one-third as long as .02 long calyx-tube; 



