KOSACE^. (rose family.) 305 



* Style deflexed in fruity its lower joint hooked at apex. 



1. O. iirbaiium, L. If .5 Root-leaves sometimes round- ovate, 

 cordate, incised-lobed and dentate, long petioled; tlie other leaves with 

 5-7 ovate-oblong segments, cuneate at base, incised-dentate. Flowers 

 erect, 2-3; petals yellow, longer than calyx-lobes ; carpophore^ ; lower 

 joint of style glabrous — Summer — Woods ; subalpine Lebanon, 

 Amanus, Marash, Aintab, and northward. 



* * Style straight in fruit. Its lower joint not hooked. 



2. O. lieterocarpiiiii, Boiss. If Root-leaves with minute 

 lateral, and large terminal, reniform-orbicular segments. Flowers 

 somewhat nodding, 5-9 ; petals yellowish-white, s/wr^er than calyx-lobes; 

 carpophore as long as calyx-tule ; lower joint of style retrosely hispid at 

 apex — Early Summer — Thickets ; Galilee ; subalpine and alpine 

 Lebanon. 



6. FRAOARIA, L. Strawbekrt. Yarola. 



Calyx spreading, the ten divisions in two row^s, tlie outer smaller. 

 Petals 5. Stamens oo . Carpels qo , implanted on the surface of a conical 

 receptacle, which becomes fleshy in fruit, and constitutes a spurious 

 berry. Style lateral, short, deciduous — Perennial herbs, with trefoil 

 leaves, white flowers, and stoloniferous root-stock. 



F. ve§ca, L. Wild Strawberry, KvMsh % Petioles and pedun- 

 cles hirsute. The whole receptacle covered with carpels — June — Woods ; 

 Cassius, Amanus, and northward. 



7. POTEBfTlL.L.A, L. Cinquepoil. 



Calyx spreading, its 1 divisions in two rows, the exterior smaller. 

 Petals 5-4. Stamens oo. Carpels oo , inserted on a dry, convex or 

 conical disk. Style lateral, short, deciduous — Perennial herbs or small 

 shrubs, with digitate, trefoil, or pinnate leaves and yellow petals. 



* Beceptacle hirsute with long hairs, concealing the usually hirsute carpels. 



1. P. Libanotica, Boiss. If .2 to .3, glandular hirsute ; stem 

 thick, scaly above ; branches simple, compactly corymbose above. Root- 

 leaves long- stem-leaves short-petioled, leaflets ternate, nearly sessile, 

 cuneate at base, obovate, crenate-serrate. Petals obovate, longer than 

 calyx, filaments hirsute at base — Summer — Fissures of rocks ; sub- 

 alpine and alpine Lebanon. 



Perhaps P. speciosa, Willd. may be in our district. 



* * Receptacle glah'ous, or with hairs no longer than the glabrous carpels. 



t Perennials. 

 X Leaves, at least the lower pinnate. 



2. P. aiiseriiia, L. If .3 to .5, stems creeping, rooting at 

 joints. Leaves interruptedly pinnate, with numerous pairs, silvery - 

 silky beneath or on both sides, acutely serrate ; stipules sheathing, 

 fimbriated. Flowers solitary, long peduncled, springing from joints, 

 .015 to .02 broad ; petals obovate, twice as long as calyx-lobes — Sum- 

 mer — Subalpine Lebanon, near Lake Yamuni. 



3. P. liirta, L. If .2 to .5, glandular-hirsute, with short wool 

 intermixed ; stems erect. Leaves quinate and septennate, leaflets 



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