DIPSACE^. (teasel FAMILY.) 401 



ulate, upper-linear, all entire. Heads round-ovate, .015 long, very 

 long peduncled ; the tomentellous, pale bracts and lower pales ovate, 

 unarmed, the others tapering, prickly-tipped ; involncel hirsute, with 

 4, lanceolate, ciliate awns, as long as tube, and 4, intermediate, very 

 short ones — July to October — Subalpine Lebanon, Antilebanon, and 

 northward. 



t t Hairs simple. Flouers yellow. 



I All the leaves undivided. 



6. C. §alicifolia, Post. (Bull. Soc, Vaud. Sc, Nat. xxiv., 

 100) If .5 to .6 ; stems wand-like, minutely velvety. Leaves glalrres- 

 cejit, coriaceous, netted- wrinHed, those of stem oblanceolate to linear, 

 acute, the lower tapering to a petiole, the upper sessile. Heads long- 

 peduncled, .015 long ; the broad-ovate, obttise scales of involucre and 

 the oblong-pales, ahruptly mucronate ; involucel quadrangular, hirsute, 

 with 4 awns as long as involucel, nearly concealed by bristles — June — 

 Aintab. 



X \ Only lowest leaves undivided. The others Vyrate or pinnatisect. 



7. C aiiil>rosioide§, Sibth. 2|! 1 to 3 ; stem stout, branch- 

 ing, 3-7-headed. Leaves more or less tomentellous, pinnatisect, the 

 lower with 3-7 pairs of ovate or elliptical-ollong, coarse-tootlied, and cut, 

 cuneate lobes ; the upper with lanceolate to linear lobes. Heads long- 

 peduncled, globular, .02 to .03 in diameter ; bracts pale, tomentellous, 

 ovate-triangular ; pales lanceolate, acuminate, prickly-tipped ; invol- 

 ucel hirsute, the four longer teeth one-third as long as tube, once and 

 a half as long as boss of calyx-limb ; the four intermediate very-short 

 — August to October — Middle mountain zone ; Lebanon ; Amanus. 



Var. augustifolia, Post. Lobes of leaves linear-lanceolate to 

 linear — Amanus. 



§. C dipsacoides, Boiss. et Bal. 2f 1 to 3 ; stem branching, 



3-7-headed. Upper root- and lower stem-leaves soft woolly, lyrate, 

 lateral lohes 1-3 pairs, ollmig, obtuse, small, terminal oblong-ovate, 

 crenate-toothed ; upper leaves pinnatisect into linear leaflets. Heads 

 round-ovate, .03 long, long-peduncled ; bracts ovate, pale, the outer 

 muticous, the inner and pales short-mucronate ; involucel hirsute, 

 with 4, short awns at angles, as long as stalk of calyx-limb, and one- 

 fourth to one-sixth as long as involucel tube, and twice as long as the 

 4 intermediate awns — August to October. 



Var. Liibauotica, Boiss. Heads somewhat smaller. Pales ob- 

 long-lanceolate — Subalpine Lebanon. 



4. KNArXIA, Coult. Knautia. 



Involucel flattened, with denticulate limb. Fig. 239. 



Calyx-limb unequally 6-8-dentate. Corolla 4-5- 

 fid. Receptacle naked or hirsute — Perennial or 

 (ours) annual herbs, with leafy involucre. 



K. hybrida, All. .3 to .8, branching, 

 viscid tomentellous, with bristles intermixed. 

 Leaves lyrate-pinnatipartite to oblong, crenate- 

 dentate, or linear, entire. Leaves of involucre 

 shorter than bluish-white flowers, longer than ^J^ p'"i^°J.*^-.''J.'V"'^' 

 fruit; teeth of involucel short, 72eaWy«2wa?; calyx- Magn7fiid /diani'eters' 

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