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on both sides ; seeds minutely white-dot -ed — Spring and summer- 

 Hillsides ; central Palestine, and northward. Lake of Tiberias. 



Var. pallida, Post. Flowers pale pink to white — Marash. 



5. A. seto§a, Boiss. 71 .6 to 1.5, bristly ; stem simple. Leaves 

 sparingly hairy, round heart-shaped, obtusely 5-7-lobed. Raceme long, 

 usually leafless except at base. Peduncles as long asinvolucre or shorter; 

 involucre somewhat shorter than calyx, both woolly, calyx-lobes 

 triangular ; petals obcordate, intensely purple ; young carpels hairy at 

 back — Summer — Common along coast, and to middle zone of mountains 

 and table-lands. 



6. A. §trlata, DC. % 1 or more, tomentellous. Leaves round- 

 heart-shaped, with 3-5 obsolescent, crenate lobes. Peduncles shorter 

 than calyx ; raceme loose, nearly leafless ; involucre one-third as long as 

 calyx ; calyx-lobes lanceolate ; petals obcordate, pale pink ; carpels 

 glabrous, wrinkled, hairy to the middle line of the flattish back — 

 Valley of Rephidim (Sinai). 



* * Calyx-lobes not striate. 



7. A. apterocarpa, Fenzl. It 1 or more, appressed-woolly, 

 canescent ; stem ending in a long, loose, generally leafless raceme. 

 Leaves round-heart-shaped, obtusely 5-lobed. Flowers short-pedun- 

 cled ; lobes of involucre and calyx lanceolate, acute, the latter a little 

 longer ; petals pink or purple ; carpels strongly wrinkled, obsoletely 

 grooved, hairy — Summer — Lebanon ; Nebo. 



3. L.AVATERA, L. Lavateka. 



Bractlets united into a 3-fid involucre. Calyx 5-fid. Branches of style 

 filiform, stigmatose along their inner face. Carpels whorled around a 

 conical or variously dilated torus, indehiscent — Herbs, sometimes 

 shrubby at base, with aspect of Malva. 



* Flowers clustered. Torus small, conical. 



1. li, Cretica, L. (D .5 to 1, scabrous with branching hairs. 

 Leaves round-heart-shaped, obsoletely 5-7-lobed to round, angnlar- 

 lobed. Peduncles short or ; lobes of involucre shorter than calyx, 

 growing little in fruit, entire, ovate, obtuse ; calyx-lobes acute or a- 

 cuminate ; petals violet, notched, 2-lobed, .015 long, 3-4 times as long 

 as calyx — Spring — Roadsides and fields ; common. 



* * Flowers solitary. Torus conical or Jiemis2)herical, exserted. 



2. L.. punctata, All. Ped. © .3 to 1, scabrous with simple 

 and clustered hairs. Lower leaves cordate to reniform, intermediate 3-5- 

 fid into oblong to oblong-lanceolate lobes, the upper hastate, or lanceo- 

 late,d.\\ crenate, at length reflexed. Peduncles long, spreading; involucre 

 nearly as long as calyx, growing in fruit, lobes auricled, acuminate ; 

 calyx lobes lanceolate, acuminate ; petals wedge-shaped, truncate- 

 retuse, .03 long, thrice as long as calyx — Spring — Fields ; common 

 throughout northern Palestine and Syria, especially along coasts and 

 interior plains. 



* * * Floicers solitary. Torus expanded at top into a concave disk, cover- 

 ing the carpels. 



