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erect or more or less curved, sometimes hooked at tip, netted-veined — 

 Spring — Grassy places ; Hauran to Coelesyria, Damascus, Palmyra, 

 Aintab, and northward. 



11. T. strangulata, Boiss. .1 to .3, appressed-puberulent, 

 stems erect or ascending. Leaflets obtriangular, truncate, obtusely 

 denticulate. Peduncles longer than leaf, aristate ; flowers 4-7, loosely 

 racemed, .008 long ; pods appressed-hairy, .02 long, .003 thick, torulose, 

 semicircular, o-4-seeded — Spring — Antilebanon. 



12. T. Aleppica, Boiss. et Haussk. © Rhandaqiiq. .2 to .4, 

 glabrescent, stems erect and decumbent. Leaflets obovate-cuneate, 

 truncate, dentate above. Peduncle nearly as long as leaf ; flowers 6-10, 

 umbellate-capitate ; pods glabrous, .04 long, .002 broad, somewhat 

 fl.attened, curved, ascending, at length spreading, mucronulate ; seeds 

 cylindrical — Spring — Fields ; Coelesyria to Aleppo, Aintab, and east- 

 ward. Too near the following. 



13. T. Coelesyriaca, Boiss. .2 to .4, sparingly hirtulous, 

 stems erect and decumbent. Leaflets obovate-cuneate, rounded, trun- 

 cate, or retuse at apex. Peduncle nearly as long as leaf ; flowers 8-10, 

 umbellate-capitate ; pods glabrous, .04 long, .002 broad, somewhat flat- 

 tened, curved, ascending, at length spreading ; seeds oblong, truncate 

 at both ends — Spring — Fields ; common. 



Var. Oaillardoti, Boiss. Larger. The leaves .02 long — Com- 

 mon. 



Var. torulo§a, Post. Pods torulose — Hauran ; Hums. 



14. T. Spruneriana, Boiss. .05 to .25, appressed-pubescent, 

 erect or decumbent. Leaflets obovate-cuneate, dentate above. Pe- 

 duncle as long as leaf, at length elongated ; flowers 8-10, capitate-ra- 

 cemed ; pods hirsute, semicircular, terete, .02 long, .0025 broad, some 

 what torulose, tapering into a slightly hooked, slender point — 

 Spring — Fields ; coast and interior plains. 



15. T. IIiero§olyiiiitana, Boiss. .1 to. 2, appressed-hairy, 

 erect or procumbent. Leaflets oblong-cuneate to rhomboid, acutely 

 denticulate nearly to lase. Peduncle longer than leaf, aristate ; flowers 

 .01 long, numerous, in an oblong, racemed head, deep yellow to orange; 

 pods hirsute, curved, .02 to .03 long, tapering, beakless, muticous — 

 Spring — Fields ; common throughout, especially in middle mountain 

 regions and tablelands. . 



16. T. I£ot§cliyi, Fenzl. .1 to .2, appressed-hairy, erector 

 decumbent. Leaflets oblong-cuneate, denticulate above. Peduncles 

 twice as long as leaf, aristate ; flowers .01 long, numerous, in an oblong, 

 racemed head, white, turning yellowish in drying ; pods curved, ap- 

 pressed-hairy, .02 to .03 long, tapering, marlced ty a longitudinal de^wes- 

 %ion at 'both sides, sometimes transversely wrinkled, mucronate — 

 Spring — Fields ; Gilead and Hauran to Palmyra, Hamath, and north- 

 eastward. 



17. T. Sibthorpil, Boiss. .1 to .2, appressed-puberulent, 

 procumbent. Leaflets obovate-cuneate to obtriangular, denticulate to- 

 ward tip. Peduncle thick, ev&n in fruit shorter tlian leaf ; flowers .006 

 long, capitate, yellow ; pods velvety, falcate, of two Jcinds, some near the 



