RANUNCULACE^. (CBOWFOOT FAMILY.) 47 



Racemes shorty loose. Laminge of lateral petals one-half or one-third as 

 long as claw. Spur ascending, thrice as long as flower. Follicles 

 glabrous^ somewhat divergent — Spring — Lesser desert. 



* * * Follicles 3-5. Petals separate, setose, the upper %-lo'bed. 



13. D. Itliaburense, Boiss. 2f Sparingly pubescent. Stem 

 tall, angled, simple. Leaves palmately -parted, segments cuneate, cut 

 and divided into oblong-linear lobes. Eacemes rather dense. Flowers 

 'bluish-white. Sepals pubescent without ; petals setose. Follicles hirsute, 

 tapering into a long beak — May and June — Valley to the north of 

 el Jebel el Ahmar, near Antioch. Mt. Tabor. 



12. PiEOXIA, L. Peony. Narmishl, 



Sepals 5, persistent, leaf -like, unequal. Petals 5 or more. Follicles 

 2-5, dehiscent on their inner side — Perennial herbs, with 1-2 ternntc 

 leaves, large showy flowers, and fleshy root-stock, bearing tuberous 

 fibres, 



P. corallina, Retz. 2]! Leaves bi-ternate, glabrous, rarely 

 puberulent beneath, leaflets distinct, oblong-elliptical, entire. Flowers 

 rose-colored, 0. 1 m. broad. Follicles woolly, becoming horizontal — 

 Spring — Woods, Cassius, Amanus, and northward. 



Var. triternata, Boiss. Leaflets round-ovate, frequently sub- 

 cordate, obtuse, or slightly acute — Afka. Amanus. 



Order II. BEIRBERIDACEtE. (Barberry Family.) 



Herbs or shrubs^ with alternate leaves^ with sepah and 

 petals both imbricated in the bud^ in two rows. The hypo- 

 gynous stamens as many as the petals and opposite to them; 

 anthers adnate, opening by two elastic valves at the top. 

 Ovary solitary^ l-celled. — Sepals 3-4-6. Petals as many, 

 or twice as many as sepals. Fruit a berry, or an inflated 

 capsule, irregularly torn at maturity. 



* Fruit an inflated capsule. Flowers panicled. 



1. BONGARDIA. Herbs. Leaves all radical. Capsule O.Ol m. long. 



2. LEONTICE. Herbs. Stem leafy. Capsule 0.02 m. to 0,03 ra. long. 



* Fruit a small berry. Flowers in small, corymbose racemes, 



3. BERBERIS. Shrubs with 3-parted thorns. 



1. BOIVOARDIA, C. A. Mey. 



Sepals 3-6, bracts 0. Petal 6, destitute of scale, but furnished with 

 a nectar-bearing pore at base. Stamens 6. Style short; stigma discoid, 

 plicate-lobed. Ovules 5-6, basilar. Fruit an inflated capsule, opening 

 when ripe by an irregular laceration ; seeds 1-4, globular — Glabrous 

 herbs, with leaves all radical, and root a large turnip-shaped corm, 

 0.20 m. or more beneath the surface of the soil. 



