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.03 long, acute, tapering at base, the lower short-petioled. Racemes 

 rather loose, bracteate below; flowers minute; calyx-lobes erect; corol- 

 la hirsute without, glabrous within ; stigma nearly sessile, subulate 

 above, penicillate at apex; nutlets glabrous — May to September — 

 Fields ; Phoenician coast to Hamath, Aintab, Aleppo, and northward. 



3. H. Europaeum, L. © Sekrdn. ^XJfein. .3 to .5, green, 

 scabrous, with short, appressed hairs tubercled at base. Leaves petioled, 

 elliptical, obtuse. Corolla-tube hirsute within ; stigma puberulent or 

 glabrous on short style, longer than Iroad — Summer and autumn — 

 Fields and roadsides. 



Var. tenuiflorum, Boiss. More canescent. Stigma more 

 pubescent. Nutlets hispid — Common throughout. 



IT IT Stigma cup-shaped {depressed-conical). 



4. H, villosum, Willd. .3 to .4, tomentose with dense, 

 short, appressed wool, intermixed loith longer, spreading hairs. Leaves 

 petioled, ovate, obtuse; corolla glabrous or hirsute within, ribs ending 

 in a tooth below the throat ; anthers adnate below middle of tube ; 

 stigma nearly sessile, much broader than long — Summer and autumn 

 — Fields and roadsides ; common. 



Var. breTilimbuin, Boiss. Limb of corolla smaller — Syrian 

 coast. 



1 1 Gorolla-hhes more or less valvate, connivent in hud, straight oi" curved. 

 \ Limh of corolla b-lohed. 



5. H. I^chweiiifurthii, Boiss. .3 to .4, appressed-woolly, 

 canescent. Leaves petioled, ovate, obtusish, lineate at upper surface, 

 and prominently nerved at lower. Corolla hirsute ; anthers near base of 

 corolla-tube, ending in a long, hooked point; style short ; stigma broad 

 at base, conical-subulate, hirsute at tip — Summer — Near Sheturah. 



6. H. Bovei, Boiss, .3 to .5, appressed-canescent. Leaves 

 petioled, ovate to elliptical, obtuse, lineate at upper surface, prominent- 

 ly nerved below. Racemes long, loose ; corolla glabrous within, limb as 

 long as tube, with or without teeth in sinuses ; anthers inserted below 

 middle of tube, but reaching to it% throat, with inflexed tip; stigma 

 nearly sessile, long-tapering, hispid above; nutlets hispidulous or gla- 

 brous, tubercled — May to September — Fields ; Syrian coast to Coele- 

 syria, Aintab, Marash, and northward and westward. 



\ \ lAmb of corolla loith 5, supplemental']/ lobes in sinuses. 



7. H, circiniiatum, Griseb. .3 to .5, soft-appressed-villous, 

 canescent, much branched. Leaves ovate and oblong, obtuse, short- 

 petioled, prominently nerved at lower surface. Racemes often .3 long, 

 loose; corolla .005 long, hirsute without, glabrous within, limb longer 

 than tube, lobes triangular at base, awl-shaped at apex, circinnate in bud, 

 the intermediate a little shorter; anthers with inflexed tips; stigma 

 elongated, conical ; nutlets smooth, glabrous — Summer — Gravelly 

 places ; Marash, and eastward. 



