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Var. approximata, Eng. Calyx-lobes membranous. Styles 

 much longer than ovary — Common to Alpine regions. 



3. C. Palaestina, Boiss. Heads .002 to .003 broad; calyx- 

 lobes broad, keeled, obtuse; corolla scarcely longer than calyx, lobes 

 short-ovate, obtuse ; scales rather large, broad-spathulate, denticulate — 

 Spring — Coast to middle mountain regions. 



I X Styles much shorter than ovary. 



4. C brevistyla, A. Braun. Stem branching. Flowers 

 sessile ; calyx scarcely shorter than corolla, parted nearly to base into 

 ovate, obtuse lobes ; corolla-lobes ovate, spreading ; scales small, trun- 

 cate, sometimes bilobed ; styles about as long as somewhat club-shaped 

 stigmas — Sinai. 



5. C. Epiliuiini, Weike. Heads dense; caljx ap2yressed to 

 corolla, as long as its tube, deeply parted into broad, ovate lobes; co- 

 rolla-tube nearly globular, limb half as long as tube, lobes triangular, 

 acute, spreading ; scales small, appressed to tube ; stigmas twice as long 

 as style, at length nearly club-shaped — Spring — Plain of Sharon ; 

 Moab; Gilead. 



t t Style a short tubercle or 0. Stigma as long as ovary. Capsule 

 irregularly toim. 



6. C. Arabica, Fresen. Heads .005 broad, few-flowered; 

 pedicels as long as calyx or longer; calyx cup-shaped, cleft to middle into 

 ovate lobes ; corolla scarcely twice as long as calyx, half -globular, with 

 ovate, acute lobes: scales mmute, dentate; stamens somewhat exserted 



— Spring — Lower Jordan Valley, and around Dead Sea, and south- 

 ward to Sinai and Egypt. 



* * Style 1. Stigma capitate, 'Z-lobed. Capsule opening by a lid. 



7. C. nioiiog'yiia, Vahl. Stem thicker than in other species, 



.01 in diameter. Flowers .004 long, 8-16 in a spike-Wke raceme .02 to 

 .05 long; calyx-lobes ovate, imbricated, obtuse; corolla in flower cy- 

 lindrical, tube longer than calyx, with short, erect, ovate, obtuse, 

 crenulate lobes; anthers cordate-ovate, nearly sessile a little below 

 throat; scales hippocrepidiform, denticulate; style as long as nearly 

 globular, 2-lobed stigma, much shorter than globular-ovate ovary ; cap- 

 sule .008 long, .005 broad, ovate, capped by marcescent corolla — 

 Spring — Lebanon to Aintab, and northward. 



Var. pauciflora, Post. Flowers solitary or 2-4 in a loose raceme 



— Ccfilesyria; Hermon; Aintab. 



Order LXXI. S0JLA]\4CE^, (Nightshade Family). 



Herhs or shricbs^ with colorless juice^ alternate (rarely- 

 opposite) leaves^ usually regular, o-merotcs, 6-6-7-androus 

 flowers, on hractless jyedicelsi the corolla imbricated, convo- 

 kite or valvate inhud, generally plaited' the fruit a ^celled, 

 many -seeded pod or herry — Flowers usually perfect. Calyx 



