LABIATE, (mint FAMILY.) 665 



panicled or corymbose. Leaves sessile, oblong to linear, .01 to .03 lono- 

 flat or revolute-margined, obtuse, crenate. Heads dense, spherical to 

 ovate, short-peduncled ; bracts linear-spathulate, shorter than flowers • 

 calyx .004 long, tubular-campanulate, teeth ovate, acute or obtuse,' 

 nearly equal, about half as long as tube; corolla little longer than 

 calyx ; anthers scarcely exserted — Summer — 



Var. vulgare, Boiss. Leaves oblong, flat or revolute-margined ; 

 heads .01 to .015 in diameter. Corolla white — Common from coast to 

 alpine regions, even in deserts. 



Var. aug^ustifoliuiu, Bth. Leaves linear-cylindrical, strongly 

 revolute-margined —Palestine, Coelesyria, Amanus, Aleppo, AintSb 

 and northward. * 



Var. roseum, Boiss. Flowers pink. 



Var. litforale, Post. Low. Leaves oblong, thick, .005 to .01 

 long, crowded. Heads dense, spherical to oblong — Sands of coast. 



Var. spicatum, Post. Heads ovate-oblong, .01 to .03 lono-, .008 

 to .012 broad — Amanus; Aintab; Mountains south of QaryeteinT * 



19 T. Siiiaicuni, Boiss. Ja'adah. 5 .2 to .4, viscid, grey-Ursute-, 

 trunks woody Moid, .003 thick; branches erect, simple or sparingly 'branch- 

 ed. Leaves sessile, oblong to linear, convolute-margined, obtusely cre- 

 nate or crenate-lobed. Heads terminal, globular, .01 in diameter, dense 

 solitary or 2-3 in a cluster; floral leaves shorter than flowers; bracts 

 linear, plumose ; calyx glandular-punctate and hirsute, upper 3 teeth 

 triangular-ovate, lower 2 longer and narrower; corolla white, once-and- 

 a-half as long as calyx ; anthers short-exserted — Summer — Rocks • 

 Sinai. 



31. AJEJCrA, L. Ajucia. 



Calyx campanulate or obconical, 5-fid or dentate. Corolla mar- 

 cescent, tube included or exserted, often hairy-ringed within, straight 

 or spirally twisted ; limb bilabiate, the upper lip short, retuse, rarely 

 bipartite, the lower elongated, spreading, trifid, the lateral lobes small, 

 oblong, the intermediate broad, often bilobed. Stamens 4, ascending, 

 usually exserted, didynamous; anther-cells divergent, at length con- 

 fluent. Style bifid. Nutlets pitted or wrinkled — Herbs or shrubs. 



* Whorls many-flowered. 



1. A. Orieutali§, L. If .3 to .5 or more, destitute of stolons, 

 villous-wooUy. Root- and lower stem-leaves persistent, oblong, .1 to 

 .15 long, tapering to a long petiole, obtusely sinuate and incised-lobed. 

 Whorls numerous, the lower distant, the upper approximated ; floral 

 leaves sessile, oblong or round, o-5-scrrate-lobed, longer than flowers ; 

 calyx fleecy, teeth longer than tube ; corolla blue, tube short-exserted — 

 April to June — Rich fields and woods ; coast to subalpine regions, and 

 interior table-lands. 



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Whorls 2-4:-floicered. Upper Up of corolla not cleft. 

 2. A, Iva, Ti ,2 to .3, canescent or villous, branching from base ; 

 branches prostrate or ascending, leafy. Leaves all alike, oblong-linear to 

 linear, .02 to .03 long, .003 to .005 broad, revolute-margined, remotely 



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