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YiQ 4 Var. Tulg^aris, Boiss. Scape as long as, or 



longer than leaves. Beak broad at base. 



Var. exscapus, Boiss. Canescent, or 

 rufescent. Scapes short or 



Var. incurvus, Boiss, Scapes longer than 

 leaves. Base of beak narrow. 



8. IIELLEBOHUS, L. Hellebore. J)*i 



Sepals 5, petaloid, persistent. Petals small, 

 tubular, bilabiate. Carpels united at base — Peren- 

 nial herbs, with palmate or pedate leaves, and 

 Head of Cerato- greenish, lurid, nodding flowers. 



"varvufarir' ^- vesicarius, Auch, 71 O.B m. to 0.5 high, 



vu ga s. Root-leaves long-petioled, ternate, with petiolulate 

 segments, dissected into cuneate cut-toothed lobes. Floral leaves 

 sessile, with 3-5 oblong-cuneate, cut-toothed lobes, overtopping the 

 flowers. Carpels inflated, forming a light green, spherical capsule, 

 0.04 m. or more in diameter — February to May — Woods, Mt. Cassius 

 and northward. 



Sepals 5, caducous, not petaloid, shorter than petals. Petals 5, 

 with a long claw, having a nectar-bearing pore at its apex, and a 

 bilabiate limb ; both lips bifid, the outer much longer than the inner. 

 Fruit a 2-3-celled capsule — Annual, erect, rigid herbs, with pinnate 

 leaves dissected into linear or capillary lobes. 



0. ung^uicularis, Lam. Claws twice as long as sepals and 

 laminae, or longer. Laminae wavy -margined. Capsule 0.005 m. to 

 0.01 broad, composed of two or three follicles, united for two thirds of 

 their length — Spring — Fields, Syria and Palestine. 



Sepals 5, petaloid, caducous, longer than petals. Petals small, 

 clawed, with bilabiate lamina, the outer lip cleft into two or more 

 lobes, and the inner smaller, entire or bifid. ISTectar-pGre at base of 

 outer lip. Fruit composed of 5-12, more or less united follicles. 

 Style long, beak-like — Annual herbs with leaves, 1-3-pinnately 

 dissected into linear or capillary lobes. 



* Mowers hluish. Carpels not compressed. Inner lip of petals half, 

 or more than half as long as outer. 



1. N. arveiisi§, L. Leaves simple, or 1-3-pinnately divided. 

 Claw short. Inner lip of petal half as long as outer, Carpels 3-5, 

 strongly 3-ribbed adherent for two thirds of their length, forming an 

 obconical capsule ; healc as long as ovary, or a little shorter — Spring — 



Var. glauca, Boiss. Glaucescent. Lobes of leaves long, acute 

 — Maritime plain of Syria. 



Var. divaricata, Boiss. Glaucous. Lobes of leaves short, 

 obtuse. Upper leaves sometimes simple — Syria and Palestine. 

 Alexandria. 



