262 LEauMiKOS^. (pin:.sE family.) 



leaf ; calyx white- and black-hairy, teeth somewhat shorter than tube ; 

 standard short, acute; pods lanceolate, .04 long, .006 thick, somewhat 

 curved, acute, grooved at back, keeled at face, minutely rough-tu- 

 bercled — Spring — Sandy fields ; southern Palestine. 



31. A, leiieop]i%ii§, Smith. © Procumbent, canescent. Leaf- 

 lets 12-14 pairs, obcordate. Peduncles shorter than leaves ; pods 

 terete, acute, glabrous — Spring — Said by Paine to be found in Moab. 

 The above description too meagre for diagnosis, is taken from De Can- 

 dolle's Prodromus, II., 393. I have not seen the plant. 



32. A, hirsutissiinus, DC. 24 .05 to .15, tomentose. Stipules 

 lanceolate, short-connate ; leaves .03 to .08 long, oblong, leaflets 8-12 

 pairs, crowded, oblong, .006 to .01 long, obtuse, conduplicate. Scapes 

 alout as long as leaves; heads dense, ovate, .03 to .04 long ; bracts lan- 

 ceolate, nearly as long as calyx-tube ; calyx villous, teeth half as long- 

 as tube ; pod densely long-hispid, ovate-odlong, .008 long, flattened, 

 ticice as long as straight leaTc — Summer — Highest summits of Lebanon 



33. A, laiiatii§, Labill, 24 .05 to .15 'caulescent, appressed-grey- 

 pubescent. Stipules lanceolate, short-connate ; leaves linear-oblong, 

 .03 to .05 long ; leaflets 6-9 pairs, sometimes rather remote, ovate to el- 

 liptical, .006 long. Scape someichat longer than leaf; heads ovate, .015 

 long ; bracts oUong, one-third as long as calyx-tube ; calyx black- and 

 white-pubescent, teeth one-third as long as tube ; pod oMong -triangular, 

 flattened, .006 long, nearly twice as long as straight beak — Summer — 

 Alpine Lebanon and Antilebanon. 



34. A. clirysopliyllus, Boiss. If .1, nearly stemless, tufted, 

 appressed-silky, yellotoish. Stipules united into one, hijid into two ta- 

 pering lobes; leaves linear, . 1 long ; leaflets 28-35 pairs, ovate to oblong, 

 .006 long, retuse, densely imbricated. Scapes somewhat longer than 

 leaf ; heads globular ; bracts linear, longer than calyx-tube ; calyx red-, 

 dish-hirsute, teeth half as long as tube ; pod .01 long, hispid, ovate- 

 triangular, flattened, as long as straight leaJc — June — Arnanus to moun- 

 tains of Aintab, and northward. 



35. A. macroscepus, Boiss. 11 .15 to .25, short-stemmed, 

 rusty-woolly. Stipules united into one, oblong-lanceolate, 2-toQthed ; 

 leaves .15 to .2 long, .012 broad ; leaflets 30-40 pairs, round-ovate, .006 

 long, retuse. Scapes longer than leaves ; heads dense, ovate, larger 

 than a walnut ; bracts linear-awl-shaped, as long as calyx ; calyx-teeth 

 as long as tube ; corolla slightly longer than calyx ; pod triangular- 

 ovate, flattened, .006 to .007 long, as long as beak — Summer — Ama- 

 nus ; Akherdagh. 



36. A. Cedreti, Boiss. % .1 to .25, tomentellotis, yellowish- 

 grey ; stems slender, naked. Stipules lanceolate, connate below ; 

 leaves .06 to .1 long ; leaflets 20-25 pairs, ovate to oblong, retuse. 

 Scapes longer than leaves ; heads ovate, dense, smaller than a walnut; 

 bracts linear-subulate, as long as slender calyx-tube ; calyx rusty-his- 

 pid, teeth awl-shaped, one-third as long as tube ; standard oblong, 

 truncate; pod * * — May to July — Subalpine Lebanon and Anti- 

 lebanon. 



37. A, emarginatus, Labill. 11 .1 to .25, appressed-yellow- 

 wooUy ; stems short. Stipules united, oblong-lanceolate, biacuminate ; 



