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LEGUMINOS.E. (PDLSE FAMILY.) 



Spring — Grassy places ; 



late, at length recurved ; standard acute 

 common. 



38. T. Aiutabense, Boiss. et Haussk. © .2 to .4, glabrescent, 

 diffuse. Free part of stipules lanceolate, setaceous-caudate ; leaflets 

 elliptical-obovate, .01 long, serrulate. Heads ovate, peduncled, in fruit 

 obiong, .03 long; calyx cylindrical, in fruit oUong, 36-40-nerved, lobes 

 lanceolate-subulate; standard, obtuse — Summer — Grassy places; Nu- 

 sairy Mountains to Cassius, Aintab, and Marash. 



39. T, xeroceplialum, Fenzl. .15 to .4, glabrescent; stems 

 diffuse. Free part of stipules lanceolate-subulate ; leaflets .01 long, 

 wedge-obovate to oblong, serrulate, mucronulate. Heads short- pe- 

 duncled, involucrate at base, globular, .006 to .01 in diameter, in fruit 

 oblong to oblong-cylindrical, dense ; calyx-lobes lanceolate-subulate, 

 twht in iYxxit 2)yt'iform-turl)inate, .003 to .003 long, .001 broad, about 

 36-nerved, marked hy two, villous, longitudinal lines ; petals obtuse — 

 May and June — Grassy places ; common. 



40. T. glandiiliferum, Boiss. .3 to .4, glabrous ; stems 

 erect, zigzag. Stipules half-ovate, connate, glandular-serrate ; leaf- 

 lets nerved, obovate to oblong and toblong-linear, glandular-serrate. 

 Peduncles long ; heads globular, involucre minute or ; calyx-lobes one- 

 third as long as pink corolla, subulate, glandular at base ; beak as long 

 as pod — Spring — Fields ; Jerusalem to Nabatiyeh. Too near the next. 



41. T. nervulosum, Boiss. et 

 Held. .3 to .4, glabrous; stems erect 

 or decumbent. Stipules half-ovate, con- 

 nate, dentate-fringed, not glandular ; leaf- 

 lets nerved, oblong-linear, denticulate, 

 sometimes obscurely and irregularly lobed, 

 not glandular. Peduncles long ; heads 

 ovate, involucre ; calyx-lobes less than 

 half as long as f>ink corolla, subulate, not 

 glandular at base ; beak as long as pod — 

 Spring — Fields. 



Var. Oalilseum, 



nearly globular. Sinus of 

 furnished with 1-3 hairs : 

 tube — Banias ; Galilee. 



42. T, g^loineratum, L. .1 to 



.3, glabrous ; stems erect and diffuse. 

 Stipules ovate-caudate ; leaflets small, 

 wedge-obovate, spiny- serrulate. Heads „ . j, r r 



•7 ii i.L 1 1 1 /^./^/. 1 T M Head and leaf of 



sessile, at length globular, .006 broad, axil- t. nervuiosum. 



lary and terminal, involucrate by opposite leaves ; pedicels very short ; 

 calyx two-thirds as long as pink corolla ; teeth equal, ovate-acuminate, 

 auricled at base, at length spreading, shorter than ovate, 10-nerved tube 

 — Spring — Subalpine Lebanon, between Diman and Hadeth. 



43. T. nig^resceiis, Viv. .3 to .5, glabrous ; stems decum- 

 bent or ascending, liollow. Stipules ovate, ahrwptly cusindate ; leaflets 

 obovate, often truncate, denticulate at apex. Heads nearly globular, 

 .01 to .015 in diameter ; calyx about half as long as white corolla, lobe's 



Boiss. Heads 

 calyx sometimes 

 teeth longer than 



