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ed, glutinous sepals ; petals one-third longer than calyx — Summer — 

 Akherdagh, and northward. 



4. A. Liibanotica, Ky. '11 .02, tufted, glandular-velvety. 

 Leaves .001 long, glabrescent, imhHcated at base of branches, obov&te, 

 keeled, obtuse. Stems 1-3-flowered ; pedicels longer than calyx ; 

 sepals glandular-hairy, ovate, obtuse ; petals obovate, once and a half 

 as long as calyx — Summer — Rocky places ; alpine Lebanon. 



5. A. g^raveoleni, Schreb. 21 -1 to .3, pubescent-viscid, 

 tufted ; branches brittle, filiform, ascending, looselyjorked, cymose. 

 Leaves short-petioled, ovate or oblong, acute, tubercular-punctate. 

 Pedicels capillary, several times as long as calyx ; sepals hairy, green, 

 oblong-lanceolate, acuminate ; petals oblong-linear, entire or retuse, a 

 little longer than cahx — Summer and autumn — Middle and subalpine 

 Lebanon and Antilebanon. Sinai. 



Var. minuta. Post. Flowers .002 long. Woods ; 'Ajltin. 



* * Annuals. 



t Leaves several-nerved. 



6. A. leptoclados, R'ch'b. .1 to .2, puberulent-scabrous, 

 rigid, stiff-branched, dichotomously pauicled-racemed. Leaves ovate, 

 acute, subsessile. Fruiting pedicels spreading horizontally ; sepals hairy, 

 lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved, thrice as long as ovate petals ; capsule 

 oblong, somewhat longer than calyx — May — Sandy places ; coast and 

 interior plains and lower mountains. 



7. A. serpyllifolia, L. .1 to .2, puberulent-scabrous, dicho- 

 tomously panicled. Leaves ovate, acute, subsessile. Fruiting pedicels 

 erect ; sepals hairy, ovate-lanceolate, acute, 3-nerved, twice to thrice 

 as long as ovate petals ; capsule inflated, ovate, longer than calyx, — 

 May — Near Cedars of Lebanon. 



§. A. €as§!a, Boiss. .05 to .1, pubescent-scabrous ; stems 

 decumbent, dichotomously panicled. Leaves subsessile, ovate-spathu- 

 late, obtuse, mucronulate, minutely tubercled. Pedicels erect, twice 

 as long as calyx ; sepals hairy, round-ovate, the outer 5-, the inner 3- 

 nerved ; petals oblong, two-thirds as long as calyx ; capsule ovate, in- 

 flated, abruptly tapering into an exserted neck — May — Subalpine 

 Lebanon. Middle zone of Cassius. 



Farther study will probably reduce the foregoing three species to 

 one. 



9. A. tremula, Boiss. .15 to .25, pruinose-scabrous below ; 

 stems 1-2-forked, diffuse. Leaves subsessile, oblong, acute. Pedicels 

 capillary, rigid, much longer than calyx, at length spreading ; sepals 

 glah-ous, ovate-oblong, acuminate, 3-nerved, white-margined ; petals 

 oblong, two-thirds as long as calyx ; capsule ovate-conical, somewhat 

 longer than calyx — June — Woods ; Cassius. 



* * Leaves 1-^erved. 



10. A. oxypetala, Sibth. et Sm. .05 to .1 puberulent-gland- 

 ular ; stems filiform, sparingly leafy, , dichotomous-cymose above. 



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