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terminal, few-flowered; flowers .03 to .04 broad — Summer and 

 autumn — Moist places •, coast and coast range to 1000 m., Amanus, 

 Aklierdagh, and northward. Its specific name is derived from the goat- 

 like odor which it emits, 



2. H. cardiopliyllum, Boiss. 5 ^ ^° 1-^) glabrous. Leaves 

 ,02 to .03 long, ovate, obtuse, fr^om a heart-shaqyed'base, sparingly pellucid- 

 dotted. Cymes terminal, short-peduncled, crowded into a dense, 

 many-flowered corymb — June — Calcareous rocks ; Antioch to Aleppo, 

 Aintab, and north-eastward. 



3. H. rupe§tre, Jaub. et Sp. 5 -^ ^^ -4, glabrous. Leaves 

 .01 to .03 long, ovate to elliptical or oblong from St, rounded or tapering 

 lase, obtuse or retuse, pellacid-dotted above, glaucous beneath. Cymes 

 terminal, 9-15-flowered, short-peduncled — Summer — Besherri. 



4. H. iiaiiuni, Poir. ^ .2 to .3, forming hemis}>herical clumps 

 hanging from vertical rocks, glabrous. Leaves .01 to .015 long, round 

 to ovate, sparingly pelluoid-dotted. Cymes terminal, 3-9-flowered, 

 very short-peduncled — April to July — Subalpine regions of Lebanon 

 and Autilebanon, and mountains above Nablus. 



Yar. pro stratum, Boiss. Appressed to rocks. Leaves round- 

 ovate to elliptical, sometimes acutish, .005 to .006 long ; cymes 2-5- 

 flowered — Antilebanon. 



5. H. §erpyllifoliuiii, Lam. ^ .8 to 1, glabrous ; branches 

 wand-like. Leaves ,005 to ,008 long, short-petioled, elliptical, glaucous 

 and sparingly dotted below. Cymes crowded at top of tqjj^er h'anches^ 

 forming a dense, terminal corymb — May to August — Bushy hillsides ; 

 coast and lower mountains, 



6. H. euueatiini, Poir, 3 -^ to ,4, glabrous ; stems numerous, 

 red. Leaves .01 to ,02 long cuneate at hase, short-petioled, ellipttical to 

 olovate, entire or somewhat repand, glaucous beneath, sparingly black- 

 dotted. Flowers in sJiort, leafy racemes — April to July — Fissures of 

 rocks ; Lebanon and Amanus, to a height of 2000 m, and northward. 



Var, fragile, Post. Stems brittle, .1 long, tufted. Leaves mi- 

 nute. Racemes dense. 



Var. pallidiim, Post. Leaves glaucous on both sides, usually 

 larger than in type, 



7. H. scabriim, L. 2f ,4 to ,5, glabrous, many-stemmed ; 

 stems glandular -roughened, red, wand-like. Leaves sessile, oUong-linear, 

 obtuse, with large pellucid dots. Cymes crowded into a dense com- 

 pound corymb — May to August — Rocky hills ; mountains of Galilee 

 to Lebanon, Antilebanon, Amanus, Aintab, Akherdagh, and north- 

 ward. 



§, H. laeve, Boiss, et Haussk, % ,4 to .5, glabrous ; stems 

 numerous, nearly simple, red. Leaves sessile, with strongly convolute 

 margins, linear, obtuse, pellucid-dotted. Cymes crowded into a short, 

 dense, corymbose panicle — Summer — Calcareous hills ; Aintab and 

 northward, and eastward. 



Var. rubriim, Boiss. Petals more or less deep red — With 

 type. 



