813 PALMARE. (palm FAMILY.) 



along tTicir whole lengtli ; leaves linear, acute, 8-10-nerved, .006 to .008 

 broad at base. Panicle terminal, corymbose, with a bract at base 

 shorter than flowers; flowers 5-7 in a head, crowded, stellate; bracts 

 aristate-tapering ; divisions of perigoniiim lanceolate, tapering-subulate ; 

 capsule ^ '^ — Julj^ — Pebbly places in torrent above 'Arsfis." 



!• t 1 1 t t Stems leafy, Leavesterete or compressed, lioVoic, witlt transverse 

 septa. Panicle terminal. Staro,ens six. Seeds caudate. 



8. J. puuctoriiis, L. If 1 or more ; root-stock thick, creej^ing ; 

 stems tall, terete, somewhat flattened, -with obtuse, leafless sheaths at 

 base, and one, terete, pungent leaf toicard middle, longer than inflores- 

 cence. Panicle compound, dense or spreading, composed of dense, 

 globular, many-flowered clusters; divisions of perigonium rusti/, equal, 

 scarious-margined, linear-lanceolate, the outer acute, concave, the in- 

 ner flat, obtusish; capsule ovate, 3-angled, 3-celled, short-apiculate, 

 somewhat longer than perigonium — July — Sinai; Shetura. 



9. J. laiiiprocarpus, Ehr. 11 .4 to .6; root-stock clustered, 

 often stoloniferous ; culms flatteued-terete, leafy, ascending or decum- 

 bent; leaves terete-compressed, when dry fine-striate. Panicle com- 

 pound, loose, corymbose; heads 4-10-flowered; divisions of perigonium 

 brown, equal, narrowly scarious-margined, lanceolate, the outer acute, 

 the inner obtusish or acute; capsule glossy, ovate, acute, 1-celled, 

 abruptly mucronate, longer than perigonium — Sumiper — Common 

 throughout. 



10. J, pyramidatiis, Lahm. If .4 to 6; root clustered, /«?■;< iWie^Z 

 loitli suckers, creeping cdjoce the grouml ; stems erect, leafy, leaves some- 

 what compressed, hollow, nodose, striate. Inflorescence corymbose^ 

 simple or compound, with short, spreading branches; clusters hemi- 

 splierical, 6-20-flowered ; divisions of perigonium brown, lanceolate, 

 acuminate-aristate, white-margined, 1-nerved, striate, nearly equal.;^ 

 capsule acutely 3-angled, pyramidal, tapering into a beak a thirf 

 longer than perigonium — Bummer — Common. 



Yar. Kotscliyi, Boiss. Smaller. Capsule less acute. 



* + jlnnnals. Stamens six. Seeds 7iot caudate. 



11. J. bufoiiius, L. © .1 to .3; many-few-stemmed; stems 

 slender, erect or diffuse, leafy ; leaves linear-setaceous, grooved at base. 

 Flowers solitary, more or less remote in erect, corymbose cymes; di- 

 visions of perigonium pale, lanceolate-subulate, membranous-margined^ 

 the outer longer; capsule oblong, triquetrous, obtuse, raucronulate, 

 shorter than perigonium — Spring and summer — Common. 



Yar. fas€iculatii§, Koch. Flowers in dense, head-like clusters. 



12. jr. Teiiageia, Ehrh. © .1 to .3; stems filiform, simple or 

 branched, 1-2-leaved; leaves setaceous, grooved at base. Flowers sol- 

 itary, remote, in loose cymes, forming a diffuse panicle; hrancJies of 

 cymes liftd ; divisions of perigonium ovate-lanceolate, acute, equal; 

 capsule nearly globular, obscurely 3-angled, obtuse, mucronate, about 

 as long as perigonium — Summer — Subalpine Lebanon and Coelesyria. 



OrdePv CXIY. PALMEiE, Juss. (Palm Family). 



Trees^ v:ith gvaceful.^ 'lylmiate or ])almate learns, crowded 

 at the top of the tTunli,{piiri)dio£cioiLs,^ohitefloioers.)inserled 



