548 BORRAGINE^. (BORAGE FAMILY.) 



5. M. refracta, Boiss. .05 to .25, hispid with spreading or 

 retrorse hairs, branchiag from neck and above. Leaves oblong-sputh- 

 ulate to oblong and oblong-lanceolate, the lower short-petioled. Ra- 

 cemes naked, much elongated in fruit, flexuous, one-sided, loose; 

 pedicels much shorter than calyx, refracted and jiyriform-cliib-shaped in 

 fruit; corolla .001 broad — Spring — Stony places; Alpine and sub- 

 alpine Lebanon, Antilebanon, and Jebel-el-Duruz, to Cassius, Amanus, 

 Aintab, and northward. 



Calyx 5-parted. Corolla funnel-shaped, with throat naked or 

 pervious, or furnished with velvety, longitudinal folds between the 

 stamens. Anthers included ; filaments very short. Nutlets triangular, 

 wrinkled-tubercled, or ovate, glabrous; areola flat, basilar — Herbs 

 or shrubs. 



* Annuals. Nutlets ovate-triquetrous, tubereled or pitted-tubercled. 



1. L.. arven§e, L. GhalasM. .3 to .4, appressed-strigulose, 

 green ; stems branching from base, erect or decumbent. Leaves obo- 

 vate to oblong, oblong-lanceolate, and linear, the lower tapering to a 

 petiole. Fruiting pedicels little thicTcened; corolla white, rarely bluish; 

 nutlets pitted, acutely tubereled — Spring — Common everywhere. 



2. 1<, Sibtliorpianum, Griseb. .2 to .3, appressed-strigu- 

 lose, canescent, prostrate, branching from base. Leaves narrow, lan- 

 ceolate. Fruiting pedicels very short, scarcely thicTcened; corolla white, 

 rarely bluish ; nutlets pitted, acutely tubereled — Spring — Sheturah ; 

 Cedars; Qaldiin (Antilebanon). Hardly distinguishable from the last. 



3. Jul, incrassatum, Guss. .3 to ,4, appressed-strigulose, 

 green ; stems branching from base, erect or decumbent. Leaves obo- 

 vate to oblong and linear, the lower tapering to a petiole. Fruiting 

 pedicels thicTcened; corolla blue, rarely white ; nutlets pitted, sligTitly 

 tubereled — Spring — Subalpine Lebanon, Antilebanon, and Jebel-ed- 

 Duruz, and northward and eastward. 



4. L, tenuifloruHi, L. .1 to .5, strigulose-hispid, 'often 

 yellowish, branching from base. Leaves oblong-spathulate petioled, 

 to oblong-linear sessile. Pedicels very short, uncTianged in fruit; co- 

 rolla blue, rarely white; nutlets .002 long, tubereled, not pitted, icitTi 

 two lateral gibbi and a sTiort beaTc — Spring — Jerusalem and coast, 

 to Coelesyria, Antilebanon, Damascus, Aleppo, Aintab, and northward. 



5. L<. Apiilum, L. . 2 to . 3, hirsute with tubereled bristles ; 

 stem rigid, rather simple. Leaves linear, 1-nerved, the radical some- 

 what spathulate, the cauline stiff. Racemes somewTiat corymbose, dense 

 in fruit, bracteate; corolla yellow; nutlets glossy, tubereled, gibbous — 

 Spring — Aintab, and northward. 



* * Perennial Tierbs. Nutlets ovate, perfectly smootTi, corolla plaited ivitliin. 



6. L<. purpureo-caeruleuin, L. 1i .5 to .G, appressed hir- 

 sute, with creeping root-stock, and erect stalks, 3-3-forked at apex. 

 Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute, tapering at base. Calyx-lobes long- 

 tapering, linear; Qovo\\2i purpde, .015 long, .01 broad; nutlets white, 

 .0035 long, .0025 broad, glossy — Summer — Amanus, and northward. 



