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.015 broad, striate, sliglitly narrowed at joints — Summer — Galilee to 

 Lebanon, Akherdagh, and northward. 



2, C. Cappadocica, Willd. If .4 to .5, glaucescent, spa- 

 ringly white-hairy, ascending. Leaflets 7-9, obo^oate-cuneate^ retuse^ the 

 lower remote from stem. Peduncles long, 6-9-flowered ; flowers .015 

 long, yellow ; pods deflexed, curved, ending in a hooked beak — Spring 

 — Aintab to Akherdagh, and northward and westward. 



3, C. Taria, L. 2^ .3 to .5, glabrous; stems herbaceous, grooved, 

 hollow, diffuse or ascending. Leaflets 7-12 pairs, oblong to ellijM- 

 cal, mucronate, the lowest close to stem. PeduDcles longer than leaf, 

 15-20-flowered ; pedicels nearly twice as long as calyx ; corolla pinl', 

 variegated with lohite, .01 long, tip of keel blachish-purple ; pods 

 erect or spreading, straightish, .05 long, .003 thick, joints 3-7, flattened- 

 tetragonal — Summer — Mountains of Aintab, and northward. 



Var. paueiflora, Griseb. Leaflets 5-6 pairs, smaller. Pedun- 

 cles longer, more slender, 5-10-flowered ; flowers smaller — Subalpine 

 and alpine Lebanon to Amanus, Akherdagh, and northward. 

 * * Annuals. Leaves pinnate. Flowers pinTc. 



4. C. Cretica, L. .3 to .5, glabrous, or stems slightly hairy, 

 diffuse or ascending. Leaflets 4-8 pairs, obovate-oblong, cuneate re- 

 tuse, to obcordate. Peduncles 3-7-flow- j^k- 147 



ered, longer than leaves, at length elon- 

 gated ; flowers .005 to .008 long ; calyx 

 minute, teeth broad, short ; keel black- 

 ish-purple ; pods ascending, linear-tet- 

 ragonal, straightish or semicircular, 

 ending in a sul-incurved beak — Spring — 

 Common along coast and in lower moun- 

 tains and interior plains. Shades by im- 

 perceptible gradations into C. parviflora, 

 Willd. 



* * * Annuals. Leaves ternate. 

 Flowers yelloio. 



5. C. §coi'pioicle§, L. © .2 to 



.3, glabrous, glaucous ; central stem 



erect, the lateral ones spreading. Leaf- ^°^^ °*" Coroniiia scorpioides, 

 lets fleshy, the lateral small, near the stem, the terminal .02 to .04 

 long, ovate, short petiolulate. Peduncles 3-4-flowered, somewhat 

 longer than leaf : flowers .005 long ; pods spreading, scorpiod, some- 

 what flattened, tetragonal, .05 to .07 long, slightly constricted between 

 seeds — Spring — Fields ; common. 



39. HIPPOCREPIS, L. Hippocrepis. 



Calyx short-campanulate, the upper two teeth connate higher than 

 the lower three. Keel tapering, beaked. Pod flattened, straight^ or 

 curved, the upper margin excavated opposite each seed, separating 

 into horse-shoe-shaped joints. Heads curved — Herbs with odd-pin- 

 nate leaves and yellow flowers. 



* Margins of sinus not ending in horns. 



1. H. unisiliquosa, L. .2to .4, glabrescent; stems decum- 



