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the free portion triangular-lanceolate ; leaflets .005 to FiG. 110. 



.01 long, elliptical. Heads long-peduncled, usually twin, 



in flower obconical-obovate, .015 long, .01 broad, m fruit 



oblong-ovate, .01 long, .008 broad; calyx appressed-silky, 



one-half to one-third as long as pinkish-purple corolla, 



teeth rigid, erect, subulale, plumose, distant, nearly equal, 



the lower a little longer, sliorter than the top-shaped- trun- 



cate tube ; fruiting calyces imbricated, erect — May — ^^^ \^ rj, 



Aintab. Candollei, 



magnified 3 



16. T. liatiiium, Sebast. .3 to .4, appressed- diameters, 

 hirsute ; stems ascendingy forked. Free part of stipules long, linear ; 

 leaflets linear, mucronate. Heads generally twin, long-peduncled, 

 ovate ; calyx less than half as long as pinh corolla, lobes triangular, 

 three nerved at base, awl-shaped above, ciliate, twice as long as villoug 

 tube, somewhat unequal ; fruiting tube obconical — June — Bushy- 

 places ; Aintab. 



17. T. supinum, Savi. © .1 to ,5, sparingly pubescent, pros- 

 trate or ascending. Free part of stipules la7iceolate-linear ; leaflets ob- 

 ovate-oblong. Heads rarely subsessile, nearly spherical, in fruit ovate; 

 calyx half as long as pink corolla, lobes thicTcened at base, nerveless, spi- 

 nescent, stellate- sptreading, about as long as obconical tube, the lower 

 longer — Spring — Weedy places and ditches ; common. 



Var. tuberculatum, Boiss. Leaflets oblong-linear. Calyx-lobes 

 ciliate, hairs tubercled at base — Common. 



18. T. Carmeli, Boiss. .3 to .3, appressed-hairy ; stems-as- 

 cending, forked. Free part of stipules lanceolate-subulate ; leaflets ob- 

 long-elliptical to oblong, the upper acute. Heads long-peduncled, ovate- 

 spherical, in fruit oblong ; calyx half as long as cream-colored co- 

 rolla, lobes thicTc at base, nerveless, subulate, plumose, the upper four 

 not quite as long as the obconical tube, the lower once and a half as long 



— Spring — Dry and weedy places ; Palestine, east and west of the 

 Jordan 



19. T. Alexandrinum, L. Bersim. .3 to .6, sparingly ap- 

 pressed-hairy ; stem erect, branched. Free part of stipules lanceolate- 

 subulate ; leaflets oblong to lanceolate. Heads peduncled, sometimes 

 subsessile, ovate, in fruit oblong-conical ; calyx half as long as cream- 

 colored corolla, lobes lanceolate-subulate, d-ne7'ved at base, at length 

 spreading, as long as campanulate tube, the lowest one longer — Spring 



— Fields and grassy places ; common. 



Var. pliloeoides, Boiss. Heads smaller, in fruit narrower, ob- 

 long — Beirut. 



20. T. Panormitauum, Presl. .3 to .5, sparingly appres- 

 sed-hirsute ; stems erect, thickish. Free part of stipules long -subulate. 

 Heads oblong-ovate, in fruit oblong ; calyx hirsute, shorter than whit- 

 ish corolla, hairs tubercled at base, lobes lanceolate-subulate, 3-nerved 

 at base, the lowest longer, tube contracted at apex, oblong — Spring — 

 Moist fields ; Beiriit ; Nusairy Moimtains. 



21. T. maritimum, Huds. .3 to .5, sparingly hairy or gla- 

 brescent ; stems erect or decumbent, branching. Free portion of stipules 

 linear, acute ; leaflets oblong-cuneate, obtuse. Heads sometimes sessile, 



