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11. C. Hicrosolymitaiaa, Boiss. .25, strigulose ; stem 

 dichotomous. Leaves sessile, oblong, entire or obscurely crenate, rather 

 acute. Flowers all terminal, 2-3 iu a cluster, short-peduncled ; calyx- 

 lobes lanceolate, acute, spurs ovate, obtuse, longer than tube ; corolla 

 Xjale or deep violet, twice as long as calyx, hirsute along nerves ; cap- 

 sule nodding — Eocks at Tombs of Kings; Nablus ; Melcha. Too 

 near the last. 



12. C. §ulp]iurca, Boiss. .2 to .5, appressed-strigulose ; 

 stems 1-00 , branching from neck and above. Leaves sessile, oblong- 

 linear. Flowers terminal, short-pedicelled ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, 

 acute, strigose at margin and nerves, in fruit growing but little, con- 

 nivent, spurs ovate-obtuse, not longer than tube ; corolla .02 long, 

 glabrous, yellow, a little more than twice as long as calyx ; capsule 

 nodding — May and June — Sands along coast, 



13. €. camptoelada, Boiss. .2 to .25, hirsute with spread- 

 ing hairs, dichotoniously branched from base. Leaves ovate to ovate- 

 oNong, the lower tapering to a short petiole, the upper acute. Flowers 

 lateral and terminal, long-pedunded, .013 to .015 long ; calyx-lobes ob- 

 long, tapering at tip, in fruit inflated, enclosing capsule ; spurs ovate 

 obtuse, growing in fruit ; corolla blue, twice as long as calyx ; capsule 

 nodding — Spring — Appressed to rocks, at base of Heimon. 



14. C. £riiiu§, L. .1 to .25, hirsute. Stems dichotomous 

 from base. Leaves obtusely serrate, obovate to elliptical, short-petiol- 

 ed to sessile, floral 3-5-lobed, generally opposite. Flowers sessile, 

 .003 long ; calyx-lobes triangular-lanceolate, in fruit growing and 

 spreading -stellate ; corolla a little longer than calyx-lobes, pale llmsh- 

 white ; capsule nodding, top shaped — Spring — Grassy and rocky 

 places ; coast and lower mountains. 



15; C. peregrina, L. @ .5 to .8 or more, hispid ; stem erect, 

 ending in a dense, simple spike, or a stift' panicle. Leaves tender, 

 crenate, the lower obovate to oblong, tapering to a winged petiole, the 

 middle oblong, the floral linear-lanceolate. Flowers axillary, sessile, 

 .02 long, solitary or 2-3 in a cluster ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, twice as 

 long as tube, and two-thirds as long as blue-corolla, in fruit stellate- 

 spreading — July to September — Moist places ; coast and coast rano-es 

 to 1000 m. 



16. C. Rapunculus, L. (D .5 to .8 or more, pubescent, 

 asperulous, rarely glabrous ; root fusiform, fleshy ; stems erect, simple, 

 wand-like, or stiff-panicled. The radical and lower leaves crenate, 

 oblong, tapering into a long petiole, the others lanceolate to linear 

 entire. Flowers solitary, .012 long, nearly sessile or peduncled, rarely 

 ternate, with the middle flower long-peduncled ; calyx-lobes erect, 

 twice to thrice as long as obcouical tube, half to two-thirds as long as 

 funnel-shaped, light-blue corolla — Spring — Woods and dry places ; 

 common in plains and mountains to subalpiue regions, 



Var. spiciformis, Boiss. Pedicels shorter than calyx, or 0. 



17. C. Plirygia, Boiss. © .1 to .3, sparingly pappillose-pubes- 

 cent ; stem tender, simple or branching, flexuous. Leaves small, the 

 lower and intermediate elliptical, obtusely crenate, subsessile, ,005 

 long, .0025 broad, the upper minute, lanceolate to linear. Flower 



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