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3. O. ^^randiflorum, Boiss. et Huet. If Glaucous, tomen 

 tellous. Radical leaves pinnatisect, sublyrate, with obovate-oblong 

 segments ; upper leaves chispiiig, pinnatijpartite. Sepals 0.05 m. long, 

 papillose-hair}^ Petals large, orange-colored^ with a violet spot at lase. 

 Pod hirsute with long, appressed hristles — Spring — Valley of Cedron 

 (Barbey). 



4. Cr. Aleppiciim, Boiss. et Haussk. If Green, with sparse, 

 papillary hairs. All the leaves pinnatipartite, with oblong segments, 

 parted into odlo?ig, nmcronate lodes. Sepals 0.05 m. long, glahrous, or 

 papillose-hairy. Petals large, crimson. Young pod appressed-hirsute. 



— June — Calcareous fields among grain. Aintab to Aleppo. 



* * Ovary more or less tuberctdate, not hairy. 



5. Cr. luteum, Scop.® Glaucous, more or less papillose-velvety. 

 Radical leaves plnnatipartite-lyrate with ovate-oblong, lobed, rarely 

 parted, segments ; upper leaves ovate, sinuate-lobed, with Jjroad, emulate, 

 clasping lase. Sepals more or less papillose hairy. Petals yellow, 

 large, 0.04 m. long. Pod very long, 0.15 m. to 0.20, scahrous with white 

 tubercles — Summer — Rocky and sandy places along coast. {G, 



Jlavum, Crantz). 



6. O. leiocarpum, Boiss. 2f Papillose or glabrescent. Radical 

 leaves lyrate, segments oblong, sinuate-dentate ; upper leaves clasping 

 at base, ovate or oblong, sinuate-toothed or lobed. Sepals sparsely 

 papillose, or glabrescent. Petals yellow, half as large as in last, 0.02 

 m. long Pods slightly tuberculate, 0.10 m. to 0.15 long, slightly torulose 



— Summer — Subalpine regions of Lebanon and Antilebanon. Foliage 

 and inflorescence much smaller than in last. {Perhaps G. vitellinum, 

 Boiss, et Buhse, the only difference seeming to he the smooth p)ods of the 

 Latter). 



4. HYPECOUH, L. 



Sepals 2. Petals 4, convolute in bud, in opposite pairs, the outer 

 entire or trilobed larger than the inner, which are tripartite. Stamens 

 4. Stigmas 2. Pod a loment, with 1 seeded cells, often separating 

 into joints when the pod is ripe — Annual herbs, with yellow, narcotic 

 juice, and bipinnatisect, dissected leaves, intermediate between Papa- 

 veraceae and Fumariaceae. 



* Exterior petals (^Fig. 10 and 11 a.) tri-lohed. Lobes of leaves oblong, 

 or oblong-linear. 



\, H. prociiml>en§, L. © Stem ascending oy Fig. 10 

 pi'ostrate. Sepals more or less acuminate, denticulate or 

 entire. Lateral lobes of inner petals oblong, entire, 

 shorter than middle stipitate, subcm^date, cocMeariform, 

 ciliate lobe. Pods (Fig.6,^.) erect-recurved, striate, nodose 

 at joints — Spring — East of Jordan. Southern Palestine, 

 and southward. 



Outer petal of 



Var. grandiflorum, Post, ^tams erect. ^ Leaves h. procum- 

 more dissected and with longer lobes than in type, bens ; natural 

 Flowers larger, and verging toward orange-color. Lateral s>ze- 



