464 COMPOSIT.E. (composite family.) 



4. C. depres§a, M.B. .4 to .6, cobwebby-canescent ; stems 

 simple or branching from neck. Lower leaves petioled, oblong, entire 

 or lyrate-pinnatifid, the upper linear-lanceolate, mucronate. Heads 

 ovate, .02 to .025 long ; margin of involucre-scales scarious, vrhite or 

 tawny, with white, lanceolate teeth almost as long as breadth of scale ; 

 intermediate row of pappus rather longer than akene — June — Fields ; 

 Moab to Gilead, Galilee, Aintab, and northward. 



5. C. cyanoi€le§, Berggr. et Wahl. .2 to .4, appressed- 

 cobwebby, canescent ; stems sparingly branched. Root-leaves petioled, 

 ovate, undivided or lyrate ; stem-leaves elliptical to lanceolate, some- 

 what auricled at base. Heads ovate, ,01 to .014 long ; margin of in- 

 volucre scales tawny, with white teeth about as long as breadth of 

 scale ; alcenes dald — April to June — Fields ; common from coast to 

 subalpine regions. 



6. C. axi]lari§, Willd. 21 .2 to .4 ; root-stock stoloniferous ; 

 stems more or less winged, rising from a rosette of leaves. Leaves more 

 or less decurrent, oblong to lanceolate and linear-lanceolate, entire, 

 toothed, or pinnatifid. Heads ovate, ,02 to .035 long ; margin of in- 

 volucre-scales pale or tawny, with white or black teeth longer than 

 margin ; intermediate row of pappus one-third to one-fourth as long as 

 akenes — Summer — Aintab, and northward. 



Yar. eaiia, Boiss. White-woolly, Leaves entire or nearly so, 

 commonly narrow. Heads .015 to .02 long — Alpine Lebanon and 

 Antilebanon. 



7. C. Aiiiniocyann§, Boiss. .15 to .3, branching from neck, 

 the central branch frequently reduced to a sessile head, the lateral pros- 

 trate. Root-leaves obovate, .035 long, pinnatifid to lyrate or toothed ; • 

 stem-leaves linear, few-lobed, the upper entire. Scales of involucre 

 glabrous, green, prickle straight, scarcely longer and stronger than the 

 teeth; flowerets pinh — April and May — 'Sandy places; northern 

 borders of et-TIh ; el-Balqa. 



8. C laxa, Boiss. et Haussk. .2 to .3 ; stem erect; with 

 farlced^ spreading branches. Lower leaves lanceolate-oblong, ,035 long, 



long-petioled, somewhat toothed ; stem-leaves sessile, pinnatipartite, 

 the upper linear, entire. Scales of involucre glabrous, pale green, 

 prickle at length recurved, about as long as scale ; flowerets purple — 

 Spring — Damascus to Qaldun (Antilebanon), Palmyrene desert, and 

 eastward. 



9. C virgata, Lam. '^. .5 to .7, appressed-pubescent. Root- 

 leaves petioled, 1-2-pinnatipartite into linear lobes ; stem-leaves sessile, 

 few-lobed or entire, the uppermost scale-like, minute. Heads 

 peduncled, solitary, or clustered, oblong, .008 to ,01 long, .003 to .004 

 broad ; pricJcle of involucre-scales scarcely longer or stouter than fringe, 

 often shorter ; flowerets^m^ — May and June — Antilebanon to Aintab, 

 and northward. 



Var, §qiiarrosa, Boiss. Terminal prickle stouter than fringe, 

 sometimes ticice as hug, spreading or recurved — Coelesyria and Anti- 

 lebanon. 



C. diffusa, Lam. , said by Tristram to be found in the Buqa', is 

 probably the above. 



