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Flowers axillary, forming interrupted spikes^ the lowest in pairs, sliort- 

 ped uncled, the upper nearly sessile, all shorter than axillary leaves; 

 lobes of corolla short-lanceolate ; anthers rust-colored ; fruit smooth 

 — Summer — 



Yar. alpiiium, Boiss, Spikes very short. Leaves often short, 

 incurved — Amanus. 



9. O. aureum, Visian. 2f .3 to 1, light- Fig. 208. 



green ; stems stout, velvety -puberulent or glabrous. 

 Leaves in sixes or eights, linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, 

 more or less mucronate, with prominent nerve 

 below. Panicle somewhat open, rather loosely Jioic- 

 ered; pedicels as long as flowers, to tioice as longj 

 lobes of corolla long -cuspidate ; anthers hlack ; fruit 

 glabrous — Summer — Bushy places, and woods, 

 in mountains, chiefly subalpine, from Moab to 

 Lebanon, Antilebanon, Cassius, Amanus, and 

 northward. 



Var. inciirTUin, Boiss. Leaves short-lineari 

 sometimes incurved. Panicle loose ; pedicels Fruits ofG. 



elongated. aureum. 



Var. scabrifoliuin, Boiss. Leaves elongated- Linear, scabrous. 

 Panicle denser. 



10. O. verum, L. (D .6 to 1 ; stems stout, puberulent. Leaves 

 in eights to trcelves, narrowly linear, acute, mucronate. Panicle thyr- 

 soid, cymes compactly jiowered ; pedicels shorter than Jiowers ; lobes of 

 corolla short-apiculate, or obtuse ; anthers yellow ; fruit glabrous or 

 pubescent — Summer — Subalpine Lebanon, Antilebanon, Cassius, Ama- 

 nus, and northward. 



11. O. iSiiiaicuiii, Dec. If .04 to .15, tufted, scabrous-hirtu- 

 lous ; stems decumbent, leafy below. Leaves all opposite in pairs, 

 oblong-lanceolate to linear, .008 to .01 long. Cymes loose, feio-floic- 

 ered ; peduncles and pedicels capillary, the latter forked, generally lon- 

 ger than flowers ; corolla minute, dirty-yellow ; ovary minutely tuber- 

 cled — May — Fissures of rocks ; Sinai. 



12. Cr. caiium, Req. If .1 to ,3, shrubby at base, densely 

 wooUy-canescent ; stems brittle. Leaves in fours and sixes, ovate, 

 ovate-oblong and lenticular to oblong-linear, .003 to .008 long, ob- 

 tuse or acute, margins revolute. Cymes axillary, paniculate ; pedicels 

 3-4-times as long as ruinute flower ; corolla hirsute, lobes with or with- 

 out mucro — May and June — A variable species. 



Var. niusciforine, Boiss. Leaves ovate to ovate-ohlong, acute at 

 both ends, .005 to .008 long, margins scarcely <?r not at all revolute — 

 Subalpine Lebanon and northward. 



Var. laxuni, Post. Leaves oUong -acuminate, .008 long, 

 margins strongly revolute — Coast and lower mountain regions. 



Var. confertum, Post. Leaves much crowded, and owing to 

 strongly revolute margins appearing oblong-conical, .003 to .005 long — 

 Pendant from rocks, principally along coast, less frequently in lower 

 mountain regions. 



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