CYTINACE^. (CYTINUS FAMILY.) 



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long ias or longer than internodes. Flowers 3-6 in axils, greenish, short - 

 pedicelled; akenes .001 long, glossy — Summer — Coast. 



Fig. 324. 



(a) Leaf and sheath of Poly- 

 gonum setosum. (6) Tip of 

 flowering branch of same. 



18. P. scto§uiii, Jacq. 5 -2 to .5, 

 glabrous, many stemmed ; stems stiff, erect 

 or ascending, striate, ending in simple, or 

 sparingly panicled racemes. Leaves as long 

 as ioternodes, or longer, .01 to .035 long, 

 .002 broad, linear - lanceolate, somewhat 

 revolute-margined, j)arallel-nerved, the floral 

 much shorter. Flowers 1-3 in a cluster, 

 short-pedicelledy forming long, slender ra- 

 cemes, pinkish-white; akene ovate, glossy 



— August and September — Akher Dagh. 



Var. re§tiouoicles, Boiss. Leaves 

 less than .001 broad; floral leaves shorter 

 than flowers — Gaiour Dagh (Amanus). 



19. P. liizuloides, Jaub. et Spach. 

 5 .4 to .5, glabrous; stems often creeping, 

 rooting; branches erect, striate, rigid, stiff- 

 panicled. Leaves linear - lanceolate, the 

 lower .03 to .05 long, often .008 broad, somewhat revolute - margined, 

 parallel-nerved, the floral shorter than flower. Flowers 3-4 in a cluster, 

 with 2^^dicel as long as pcrigomum, forming long, slender racemes; 

 perigonium pinkish-white; akene oblong, glossy — August and Septem- 

 ber — Akher Dagh, and northward. Seemingly only abroad-leaved, 

 long-pedicclled variety of the last. 



20. 'P. Xibaiii, Boiss. 5 .1 to .3, glabrous; new stems ascend- 

 ing or procumbent, naked below, densely leafy above. Leaves oblong- 

 elliptical, .005 to .01 long, loith deciduous mucro, many-nei'ced at loicer 

 surface, the floral longer than the flowers. Flowers Jlesli-covered 1-3 in 

 axils, nearly sessile or short-pedicelled, forming shorty terminal, dense, 

 leafy spiles ; akene smooth, glossy — Summer — Alpine and subalpine 

 Lebanon; Coelesyria; Herniou. 



Order LXXXVI. €YTIIVA€E.E, Lindl. (CtTiNUS Family.) 



ParasitiG herhs, with scaly, leafless sterns, mo?icecwics or 

 diwcious {rarely perfect) floioers, the fevigonmm more or 

 less adherent to the 1-celled, rnany-ovided ovary, the fruit a 

 'iiiany-seeded 'berry, the emhryo iinheddcd incelhdose alhuraen 



— Lobes of calyx (in ours) imbricated. Anthers numerous, 

 affixed to a central column, 1-2 -celled. Placentte parietal. 

 Ovules ortliotropous or anatropous. 



CJVTIIVUS, L. CYTINU3. 



Perigonium tubular-campauulate, lobes 4-8, imbricated in the bud, 

 Staminate Jioicers. Bracts 3, at base of perigonium, rarely 0. Anthers 

 8 10, sessile at tip of central column, in 1 row, connate in a head, 

 2-celled, extrorse. Pistillate Jioicers, Bracts 3, near middle of ovary, 

 adnate to it, or 0. Ovary inferior, 1-celled, Avith parietal placeutse. 



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