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corolla ; pods glabrous, obovate-rhombic, .013 long, .008 to .01 broad 

 — Spring — Stony places ; Moab to Antilebanon, Damascus, Aleppo, 

 Aintab, Marash, and northward. 



Var. bra cliy calyx, Post. Calyx-teeth half to two-thirds as 

 long as corolla — Aintab to Marash. 



3. E. Lenticula, Schreb, .2 to .4, appressed-puberulent ; 

 stems slender, erect. Petiole ending in a mucro, and sometimes in 

 upper leaves in a simple tendril ; leaflets 3-4-pairs, oblong to linear, 

 mucronate ; stipules semi-hastate to lanceolate, entire, or rarely toothed 

 toward base. Peduncles 1-2-flowered, muticous or short-mucronate, 

 filiform^ much shorter tlian leaf; calyx-teeth capillary, somewhat 

 shorter than .003 long, bluish corolla ; pods pubescent, obovate-rhom- 

 boid, .007 long, .004 broad — Grassy places; coast and interior. 

 Rather rare. 



Faba vulg-aris, L. The Horse-bean, Ful, is extensively culti- 

 vated, and eaten by the people of Syria and Egypt. 



46. liATHYRUS, L. Vetchling. Everlasting Pea. 



Standard broad-obovate to orbicular. Mouth of stamen-tube not 

 oblique. Style flattened, sometimes twisted, bearded near tip. 

 Otherwise as in Vicia — Annual or perennial herbs with abruptly or 

 odd-pinnate leaves — composed of 1 pair of leaflets, or with leaf -like 

 petioles destitute of leaflets. 



* All the petioles ex-stipulate, leaf- like, only the upper learing leaflets. 

 1. L. Ochrus. 



* * All the petioles stipuled, tendril-like, destitute of leaflets. 



3. L. Aphaca, 3 stenolobus. 



*.* * All the petioles leaf -like, tut destitute of leaflets. 



4. L. Mssolia. 



* * * * All the petioles hearing one pair of leaflets. 



t Sparingly pulerulent or glatrous annuals. 



X Pods glabrous or slightly hairy. 



5. L. annuus, 6 Cicera, 7 amoenus, 8 stenophyllus, 9 marmoratus, 

 10 sativus, 11 erectus. 



X X Pods ciliate. 



13. L. blepharicarpus. 



1 1 t Pods tubercidar-hirsute. Petioles cirrhose. Peduncles elongated. 



13. L. chrysanthus, 14 chloranthus. 



1 1 Perennials. Petioles cirrhose. 



15. L. tuberosus, 16 pratensis. 



1. L.. Ochrus, L. © .3 to .6, glaucescent ; stems winged, 

 prostrate or climbing. Petioles decurrent, winged, oblong, .03 to .07 

 long, the lower acute, muticous, the middle forked at tip, tcith awns or 

 tendrils at fork and tips, the upper bearing 1-5 leaflets. Peduncles 1- 

 flowered, unarmed, much shorter than leaf ; corolla pale yellow; pods 

 oblong, .05 long, .01 broad, upper margin 3-winged ; seeds 5-7, 



