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* * Nutlets leset with warts not confluent at lase. Flowers Hue. 



9. A. niacropliylla, Boiss. et Held. 2{! .2 to .6, ciliate-villous ; 

 stems ascending, brittle. Leaves .06 to .1 long, velvety with small 

 bristles intermixed, oblong-lanceolate, tajDcring at base, the upper 

 cordate-oblong, rather obtuse. Bracts longer than calyx ; calyx nod- 

 ding in fruit, not much enlarged, lobes linear-lanceolate; corolla-tube 

 twice as long as calyx, with Jive purple lands within, limb .008 broad; 

 nutlets small, somewhat keeled, beak nearly horizontal; areola oval, 

 occupying the whole base — Spring — Subalpine Lebanon, Nusairy 

 Mountains, and northward. 



19. MYOSOTIS, L. Forget-me-not. ScoRnoN-GRASs. 



Calyx campanulate, 5-cleft or parted. Corolla salver-shaped or 

 funnel-shaped ; scales at throat, obtuse ; limb flat or concave, lobes 

 twisted to the left in bud. Stamens included; filaments short, anthers 

 oblong, inserted by middle of back, with membranous or callous point. 

 Stigma obtuse, somewhat 2-lobed. Nutlets smooth, ovate to oblong, 

 somewhat flattened, areola basilar-lateral with somewhat elevated 

 margin — Perennial or monocarpic herbs, with small blue or whitish 

 flowers. 



* Hairs of calyx appressed, not hooTced at tip. Perennials. 



1. ]?I. palustrii, With. If .2 to .4, appressed-hairy^ root-stock 

 sometimes stoloniferous. Leaves oblong to oblong-linear, the lower 

 tapering at base, the upper acutish. Calyx-lobes half as long as tube, 

 campanulate ; corolla-limb flat, longer than tube ; style as long as calyx ; 

 fruiting pedicels horizontal; nutlets ovate, glossy — Spring — Haifa 

 (Armitage). 



* * Hairs of calyx hoohed at tip, spreading. 

 t Perennials or Mennials. 



2. M. §ylvatica, Hoffm. (p ,1 to .35, many-stemmed from 

 base, hispid, especially below, sparingly branched above. Leaves soft- 

 hirsute, the radical oblong-spathulate, petioled, those of stem oblong- 

 lanceoiate. Racemes often bifid, loose in fruit ; pedicels once to twice 

 as long as fruiting calyx; calyx-lobes erect, not connivent in fruit; co- 

 rolla .006 to .008 broad, tube as long as calyx — May and June — 

 Shady places ; Kurd Dagh ; Marash. 



* * Annuals. Tender, green herhs. 



3. ]fl. liispida, Schlecht. Lisdn-eth-Thaur. .1 to .4, hispid 

 with spreading, straight hairs, branching from base. Leaves oblong, 

 the radical tapering to a petiole. Raceme elongated, naked in fruit; 

 pedicels spreading, about as long as calyx; corolla .0015 broad — 

 Spring — Hillsides and grassy places, Sinai, Jebel-ed-Durvlz, Lebanon, 

 Antilebanon, Nusairy Mountains, Aleppo, and northward and eastward. 



4. M. stricta, Link. .1 to .25, hispid with short, often hool-ed 

 hairs. Leaves oblong, obtuse, the radical rosetted, short-peduncled. 

 Raceme leafy below ; pedicels stiff, erect, shorter than calyx; calyx closed 

 in fruit; corolla .002 broad — Spring — El- Jebel-el-Gharbi. 



