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shaped, often 2-lobed, calyx .007 long, woolly-canescent — Summer — 

 Basblamish (Amanus), Antioch and northward. 



Var. brevifolius, Post, Leaflets .003 to .006 long, elliptical- 

 ovate to obovate — Bashlamish. 



Var. alpinus, Post. Compact. Spines .02 to .03 long. Leaflets 

 8-4 pairs, .004 long, .002 broad — Akherdagh. 



73. A. psilacinos, Bge. 5 -^ *^ -^^ branches short, thickish, 

 nearly glabrous. Spines .05 to .08 long, spreading ; stipules broad-o- 

 vate, tapering^ villous at base ; leaflets remote, 5-6 pairs, oblong-lanceo- 

 late^ .^IZ to .01^ long, prickly, appressed-cunescent, upper face promi- 

 nently nerved. Axils \Q-lZ-flowered, densely crovsrded into ahead loA^ger 

 than a walnut^ often lobed ; bracts broad-obovate-cuneate, concave, 

 glabrous at base, densely woolly toward tip, obtuse, mucronate, longer 

 than calyx-tube ; calyx .01 long, white-villous — Summer — Marash. 



74. A, Zaclilen§i§, Bge. ^ -2 to .3, branches short, thick, silk- 



y between the crowded, .03 to .05 long spines. Stipules ovate, acute, 

 woolly or ciliate, at length glabrescent ; leaflets 4 pairs, oblong-lanceo- 

 late, .01 long, prickly, keeled, appressed-silky-canescent, shorter than 

 terminal spine. Axils 5-7-flowered, densely crowded into ovate or ob- 

 long, leafy heads, .025 to .05 long ; bracts ovate-oblong, acute, boat- 

 shaped, incurved, densely woolly, longer than calyx-tube — Spring 

 and summer — Subalpine Lebanon and Antilebanon. 



75. A. crueiitiflorus, Boiss. 5 -^ to .7 ; stems beset below 

 with dense, black, .02 to .04 long spines; younger spines stout, spread- 

 ing ; branches woolly between stipules. Stipules thin, translucent, 

 triangular, acute, ciliate ; leaflets 6-7 pairs, crowded, ovate, .003 long, 

 conduplicate, prickly-mucronate, silvery-silky. Axils 4-5-flowered, 

 forming dense, globular heads, enclosed by the terminal leaves ; bracts 

 ovate, concave, acute, membranous, woolly along middle of back, 

 longer than calyx-tube — Summer — Alpine Lebanon and Antileba- 

 non. 



76. A. stromatocle§, Bge. 5 • 3 to . 5, gum-bearing^ very thorny, 

 with blackish branches. Spines .02 to .04 long, slender, crowded, 

 the young ones yellow, ascending ; stipules ovate, acuminate, ciliate, 

 the younger appressed-pubescent ; leaflets 5-pairs, oblong -lanceolate to 

 linear-lanceolate, .004 to .01 long, mucronate, conduplicate, appressed- 

 silky-canescent. Axils 4-5-flowered, crowded at base of branches in 

 dense, globular heads larger than a Tvalnut ; bracts ovate, boat-shaped, 

 acute, tomentellous along middle of back, longer than calyx -tube ; 

 calyx .012 long — Summer — Alpine regions of Akherdagh. Too near 

 the next. 



Var. inicro]>!iyllu§, Boiss. More compact, low. Spines .02 to 

 .03 long. Leaflets .005 to .008 long. 



77. A. Kurclicui, Boiss. 5 .3 to .5 ; branches naked, twigs 

 thick-set with blackened, appressed spines. Stipules lanceolate, promi- 

 nently nerved, tender at tip, ciliate ; leaflets flat or somewhat condu- 

 plicate, elliptico-lanceolate, .006 to .008 long, tapering into a long 

 prickle, silvery. Axils 2-6-flowered, somewhat distant, arranged in a 

 s,lwrt, rather loose spiJce at the base of the wings; bracts ovate, boat-shaped, 



