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Page 255. Last line but one. In place of A. Prusianus. A. gos- 

 sypinus. 



Page 259. After A. callichrous. A. HloabUicus, Post. © .05 

 to .1, sparingly hairy, diffuse. Leaves .025 long; leaflets 5-8 pairs, el- 

 liptical, obtuse, .006 long, .002 broad. Heads a little larger than a mar- 

 rowfat pea, 4-6-flowered, peduncle as long as leaf or shorter; calyx 

 white-and-black -hairy, teeth linear-setaceous, as long as tube; corolla 

 violet; lamina of vexillum obovate-retuse ; pod * * —April — Between 

 Mashatta and Ziza (Moab). 



Page 261. After A. homhycinus. A. Palinyrensis, Post (Plan- 

 tse Postianse, i, 6). A to .5, crisp-white-and-black- villous ; stems 

 prostrate. Leaflets 8-10 pairs, obovate, .008 long, retuse, rather remote. 

 Racemes loosely 5-10-flowered, peduncle shorter than leaf; calyx-teeth 

 as long as tube; corolla white, .02 long; pods oblong, incurved, white- 

 fleecy — April — Wells of Abu Fadil, west of Palmyra. 



Page 26S. In place of A. Prusianus, Boiss. A. g^ossypinus^ 



Fisch. 3 . 2 to .4 ; branches long, loosely spiny, woolly canescent. Spines 

 .02 to .08 long; stipules ovate at; base, abruptly cuspidate, at length 

 glabrescent; leaflets 4-8 pairs, ovate to obovate-oblong, .005 to .01 long, 

 iong-prickly, woolly-canescent. Axils go -flowered, forming ovate or 

 globular, terminal heads, a little smaller than a walnut; bracts oblong, 

 boat-shaped, villous at upper part of back; calyx .007 long, woolly- 

 canescent — Summer — Bashlamish, base of Amanus, and eastward. 



Page 269. In place of Var. alpinus. Post. Var. filagineui, 

 Boiss. Heads scarcely larger than a filbert, often crowded together at 

 tip of branch. Spines .02 to .03 long, those of heads leafless. Leaflets 

 3-4 pairs, .003 to .006 long— Top of Akher Dagh. 



Page 269. Before A. psilacmes. A. exig[uu§, Post (Plantse 

 Postianse, in, 7). If .04 to .05, heads just emerging from shingle ; 

 trunk vertical ; branches numerous, ascending, covered with imbricated, 

 dead petioles. Leaves few, .012 to .018 long, forming an involucre to 

 the heads, and mixed with the flowers ; spines yellow, short ; stipules 

 ovate, acute, scarious; leaflets 1-4 pairs, lenticular, .006 to .01 long, 

 white-silky, prickly-mucronate, much longer than petiolar spine. Axils 

 4-6-flowered, crowded into cocoony, globular, terminal heads, larger 

 than a filbert ; bracts ovate-oblong, acute, shorter than calyx, fleecy ; 

 calyx fleecy, split to base, .012 long; corolla shorter than calyx, cream- 

 colored — July — Shingle ; top of Sudr-esh-Sheikh-'Ali (Antilebanon). 



A. Antiocliianus, Post. 2f .2 to .3; branches yellow, loosely 

 leafy, densely tomentellous between stipules, beset with old spines at 

 base. Spines .03 to .05 long; stipules ovate-triangular, cuspidate- 

 tapering, tomentellous toward base, glabrescent toward tip; leaflets 6-8 

 pairs, oblong, tapering at base and tip, .006 long, .002 broad, spiny- 

 mucronate, longer than petiolar spine, appressed-silky, pale green. 

 Axils 5-6-flowered, crowded into an ovate or globular head, .02 to .05 

 long, intermixed with leaf-bearing spines ; bracts linear, tapering, long- 

 villous at back, nearly as long as calyx; calyx .009 long, villous, teeth 

 longer than tube — August — Near Antioch. 



Page 270. After A. Bethlemiticus. A. Barbeyanus, Post 

 (Plantse Postianse, v, 5). 5 -S, erinaceous; branches beset with old, 

 weak, spreading, blackish spines. Stipules lanceolate, glabrous, the 



