LEGITMINOS^. (PXJLSB FAMILY.) 



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Upper leaf and fruiting head 

 ofT. resupinatum. 



lower retuse. Heads spherical, .015 in diameter, solitary, peduncled, 

 peduncles about as long as leaves; calyx glabrous, except at upper part 

 of galea which ufurnuhed with minute, microscopic, glandular hairs, 

 (a Fig. 116), teeth 3-nerved, all subulate, nearly as long as tube,[the up- 

 per two declined, the lower three straight ; corolla purplish, about 

 twice as long as calyx — Summer — Marash, A subspeices of T. phy- 

 sodes, Stev., described from immature specimens. 



34. T. resupinatum, L. © .3 to Fia. 117. 

 .5, glabrous; stems diffuse or ascending. 

 Stipules triangular-lanceolate, long-taper- 

 ing. Peduncles about as long as or longer 

 than leaves ; heads .01 in diameter in flower, 

 and .015 in fruit ; flowers nearly sessile, 

 recurved ; calyx one-half to one-third as long 

 as purple corolla, in fruit villous, the bach 

 spreading out into aforlced, two-awned cone, 

 the lower three teeth broader, lanceolate ; 

 pod ovate, compressed, obliquely mucronu- 

 late — Spring — Grassy places ; common. 

 Varies much in thickness of stents and size 

 of flowers. 



35. T. tomentosum, L. © .1 to 



.5 glabrous; stems diffuse. Stipules ovate- 

 lanceolate. Peduncles shorter than leaves, 

 sometimes ; heads .005 broad in flower, 

 .01 to .015 in fruit ; flowers nearly sessile; 

 calyx two-thirds as long as pink corolla, in fruit densely pannous, 

 teeth linear-subulate, hidden by wool, the upper deflexed ; pod ovate, 

 compressed — Spring — Moist, grassy places ; common. 



36. T. bullatum, Boiss. et Haussk. © .1 to .3, glabrous ; 

 stems diffuse. Stipules lanceolate, acuminate. Peduncles filiform, 

 somewhat longer than leaf or shorter, at length nodding ; flowers sub- 

 sessile ; calyx half as long as pink co- 

 rolla, in fruit woolly,*the upper teeth ^^^' 1^°- 

 very small, short-triangular, the lower 

 twice as long, oblong -lanceolate ; pod 

 ovate, compressed — Spring — Fields; 

 between Aleppo and Aintab. 



Yar. g:labrescen§, Post. Fruit- 

 ing calyx sparingly villous or glabres- 

 cent — Besaba (Lebanon) among pine 

 trees ; 'Abeih; Nahr-el-Kelb. 



37. T. ipumosum, L. © .2 



to .4, glabrous; stems ribbed, erector 

 diffuse. Stipules ovate, scarious, seta- 

 ceous-caudate ; leaflets obovate, .03 to 

 .03 long, denticulate, the lower trun- 

 cate. Heads peduncled or involucrate, 

 globular, in fruit ovate, .035 long, .03 

 broad ; calyx 20-nerved, reticulate, 

 in fruit ovate, lobes lanceolate-subu- 



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Fruiting head of T, spumoium. 



