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leaves .1 to .2 long ; leaflets oblong, retuse, 18-35 pairs. Scapes thick, 

 longer than leaves ; heads dense, ovate-oblong ; bracts linear-lanceo- 

 late ; calyx hispid, teeth scarcely shorter than tube ; standard oblong- 

 linear, retuse, much longer than wings ; pod densely rusty-hispid, 

 ovate, flattened, short-mucronate — April to June — Subalpine Lebanon 

 and Antilebanon ; Akherdagh. 



38. A, cretacen§, Boiss. et Ky. 2X .15 to .25, nearly stemless, 

 pannous, canescent or yellowish-grey. Stipules connate, triangular, 

 bifid ; leaflets 18-25 pairs, oblong to linear-oblong, retuse, crowded. 

 Scapes thick, as long as leaves or longer ; heads ovate-oblong, smaller 

 than a walnut, dense ; bracts linear ; calyx woolly-hispid, teeth one- 

 third as long as tube ; corolla Iriclc-red ; standard ovate, nearly entire ; 

 pod densely long-hispid, oblong, .015 long, flattened, tapering into a 

 ihort, straightish beak — April and May — Chalky soil ; Antilebanon ; 

 Syrian desert to et-Tih, and eastward to Euplirates. 



39. A. oxytropifoliu[§, Boiss. % .2 to .3, stemless, greyish or 

 yellowish woolly. Stipules lanceolate, acuminate, connate at base ; 

 leaves .1 to .2 long, leaflets 20-25 pairs, at first crowded, then more or 

 less distant, oblong to linear-oblong, retuse. Scapes thick, longer than 

 leaf. Mack- and white-hispid ; heads as large as a walnut, in fruit .06 to 

 .08 long ; calyx rusty -hirsute, teeth somewhat more than half as long 

 as tube ; standard rhomboid, retuse ; pod rusty-hirsute, oblong, 

 flattened-triquetrous, .006 long, tapering into a somewhat incur- 

 ved leah as long as cell — April and May — Stony places ; Gilead and 

 Moab. 



40. A, vexillari§, Boiss. If .15 to .35, sparingly appressed- 

 hairy, green, ascending or diffuse. Stipules triangular, lanceolate, 

 scarcely connate ; leaflets 15-30 pairs, .005 to .01 long, elliptical to ob- 

 long, obtuse or retuse. Peduncles about as long as leaf ; heads 

 ovate, as large as a walnut or larger ; bracts lanceolate, as'long as calyx- 

 tube, calyx white- and black-hispid, teeth awl-shaped, half as long as 

 tube ; corolla yellow, standard linear, .02 to .03 long, nearly tioice as 

 long as heel; pod nearly sessile, white-villous, half -ovate, somewhat flat- 

 tened, .01 long, ending in a slender, incurved beak about as long as 

 cell — May — Calcareous soil ; Hauran to Aintab, and northward and 

 eastward. 



41. A, barbatus, Lam. If ,15 to .2, strigose-hispid, canescent. 

 Stipules lanceolate, pectinate-ciliate, short-connate or free ; leaflets 6-8 

 pairs, elliptico -linear, rather acute. Head ovate, short-peduncled, in 

 the uppermost axil ; calyx-teeth tj^ice as long as tube ; bracts longer than 

 calyx-tube ; standard oblong, tapering, obtuse ; pods oblong, some- 

 what flattened, shorter than calyx — Spring — 



Var. Sillardieri, Boiss. Calyx-teeth shorter ; standard shorter, 

 less tapering — Lebanon. 



42. A. nanu§, DC. 11 .05 to .1, Iristly-hirsute, shining, densely 

 leafy. Stipules oblong-lanceolate, connate at base, bristly ; leaves .025 

 long ; leaflets 6-9 pairs, elliptical-linear, obtuse. Peduncles 1-2, shor- 

 ter than leaf and globular head ; bracts lanceolate, pectinate-ciliate, 

 longer than calyx-tube ; calyx-teeth longer than tube and standard ; 

 pod shorter than calyx, oblong, ^-angled-prismatic, somewhat flattened, 

 .01 long, appressed-hairy, short-mucronate -- Summer — Lebanon. 



