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thulate to linear. Flowers short-pedicelled, in one sided racemes ; calyx 

 .013 to .015 long, club-shaped from umbilicate base, whitish ; scales 

 with 1-4, oblong, obtuse teeth ; limb white, deeply obcordate ; cap- 

 sule ovate, a little shorter than carpophore — May — Fields ; Aintab 

 to Marash. 



10. S. crassipe§, Fenzl. .3 to .4, scabrous or scabridulous 



with elevated dots, pubescent. Leaves oblong- 

 spathulate to lanceolate-linear, the floral often Fig. G8. 



equalling or overtopping the calyx. Flowers sub- 

 sessile, the alar solitary, the terminal more or less 

 densely cymose, 3-5 ; calyx cylindrical from um- 

 bilicate base, scabridulous with conical papillce, 

 especially along nerves^ in fruit cliib-sliaped, teeth 

 ovate, odtiise, membranous ; limb minute, purple, 

 lijiear-cioneate, retuse ; capsule ovate, less than 

 thrice as long as car2)opihore — Fields ; common. 

 (Includes 8. gonocalyx, Boiss., see supj)lement to 

 Fl. Or. Boiss. p. 93). 



11. S. dicliotoma, Ehr. .3 to .5, J//s^'°/s' wmi%ome" 

 puberalent ; stem stiff, dichotomous. Leaves spa- whaTdenseiy^ cymos^e 

 thulate to linear, acuminate. Peduncles very short ; terminal flowers, 

 calyx more or less hirsute loith bristly papillm along the green, pro- 

 minent nerves, oblong-cylindrical, in fruit oblong, teeth short, lanceo- 

 late, acute ; limb lohite, biimrtite beyond its middle into ovate-oblong 

 lobes ; capsule oblong, with short carpophore — Spring — Galilee. 

 Gilead. 



Var. raceino§a, Boiss. Canescent with crisp hairs. Racemes 

 long. Bracts membranous. Capsule ovate — ^^ SjDring — Fields 

 to 1000 m ; much commoner with us than type. {8. racemosa, Otth.) 

 Var. glabrc§cen$, Post. Glabrescent. 



12. S. oxyodonta, Barbey. .3, sparingly puberulent with 

 crisp hairs. Leaves oblong-spathulate to oblong-linear, the upper 

 somewhat clasping. Powers subsessile, solitary ; calyx with broad, 

 green, sparingly pubescent nerves, and lanceolate, acute teeth, ending 

 in a recurved tip ; limb purple, oblong, bifid, into ovate, obtuse lobes ; 

 capsule twice as long as carpophore — April — Plain of Esdraelon. 



13. S. Oallica, L. .3 to .4, sparingly hirsute, viscid above ; 

 stem simple or dichotomous. Leaves obovate-spathulate to oblong or 

 oblong-linear, upper awl-shaped. Lower flowers peduncled, upper 

 subsessile ; calyx rounded at base, cylindrical, in fruit ovate, with lan- 

 ceolate-sulndate, somewhat recurved teeth ; limb pink or white, obovate, 

 entire, retuse, or denticulate ; capsule subsessile — Spring — Fields and 

 hillsides ; not rare to 1000 m. 



§ 5. BIPARTITE. 



14. S. McaBeiisi§, all. Ped. to (2) .3 to .4, papillose- viscid. 

 Leaves fleshy, linear-oblong obtuse, to linear acute. Flowprs in com- 

 pound racemes or irregularly cymose, more or less peduncled ; calyx 



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