608 GLOBULARIEiE. (GLOBULARIA FAMILY.) 



ed at tip, bifid, spiny-toothed ; corolla whitish, glabrous, lobes round- 

 ed ; capsule .025 long — May and June — Common to middle moun- 

 tain zone. 



Var. deutatus, Boiss. Leaves shorter, irregularly spiny-den- 

 tate — Aintab. 



Order LXXVII. GI.OBUL(ARI£y£ . (Globul aria Family). 



Herbs or shrubs with jperfect, irregular flowers^ in 

 globular, involucrate heads, with obligue, usually bilabiate 

 corolla, 4, didynamoxis stamens inserted on the Gorollortube, 

 confluent, 1-celled anthers, bifid stigma, a l-celled, free ovary, 

 with 1, jpendulous^ anatrojpous ovule / fruit an indehiscent 

 utricle, with terete embryo iii the axis of the albicmen^ 

 radicle sujperior — Calyx 5-cleft or -parted, equal or bilabi- 

 ate, persistent. Corolla sometimes obliquely l-lipped. 



1, C^L.OBU£.ARIA, L. Globularia. 



Calyx turbinate or campanulate at base. Corolla with short tube, 

 upper lip bipartite or 0, lower 3-parted or -dentate. Stamens inserted 

 at throat ; anthers versatile. Style bidentate at apex. Fruit included 

 in calyx, oblong — Genus distinguished by its globular heads of blue 

 flowers. 



* Herbaceous jyerenniaU with stolonifermis root-&toclc, and l-Tieaded scapes. 



Fig. 273. 



1. O. tricIio§autIia, F. et M. 1^ .2 to 



.35, glabrous, drying black. Koot-leaves rosetted, 

 obovate to spathulate, obtuse or tridenticulate at 

 apex ; cauline sessile, mucronate, lenticular to ob- 

 long, acute. Head .014 to .02 broad in flower, .02 

 in fruit ; involucre leaves long-acuminate ; calyx- 

 lobes lanceolate-subulate, 3-4-times as long as 

 tube ; lobes of upper lip of corolla capillary, of 

 lower narroidly linear — June — Shady places ; 

 Nusairy Mountains and Amanus, to Aintab, and 

 northward. 



Head and upper leaves 

 of Gr. trichosantha. 



* * jShrubhj, glah^ous, branching plants. 



2. O. Alypnm, L. 5 .3 to .6, glaucescent ; branches elongat- 

 ed. Leaves scattered, leathery, .01 to .02 long, ollanceolate-cuneate, 

 acute, mucronate or tridentate at apex. Heads terminal, .01 broad in 

 flower ; involucre leaves ovate, imbricated ; receptacle nearly glolmlar, 

 stipitate ; calyx-lobes twice as long as tube, linear-acuminate ; corolla 

 twice as long as calyx, with rudimentary, bidentate upper lip, and rather 

 long, short-tridentate, lower lip — Winter and spring — Jebel Abu- 

 Qusheibah (El-'Arabah) ; Lebanon, and northward. 



