304 KOSACE^. (rose family.) 



velvety; drupe globular, violet-red to yellow, .02 in diameter — Spring 

 — Middle and subalpine mountain regions of Lebanon and Antilebanon 

 to Amanus, Akherdagh, and northward. 



4. P. Cerasia, Bl. 5 3 to 5; branches straight, unarmed, glabrous. 

 Leaves obovate-elliptical, often .05 to .07 long, .02 to .03 broad, taper- 

 ing to a short petiole, creuate-dentate, glabrous, except along veins. 

 Buds 1-2-flowered ; fruit ovate, .015 to .02 long, .013 broad, bluish- 

 black Spring — Extensively cultivated; from an unknown source. 



Resembles the Damsom in flavor and appearance, but has a longer, 

 acutish stone, 



5. P. domcstica, L. 5 Pl^i^- Khaukli. 5 to 8, imarmed ; 

 twigs glabrous. Leaves obovate-elliptical, tapering to a petiole, serrate, 

 hirsute on lower surface, especially along the nerves. Peduncles pubes- 

 cent; drupe oblong, .02 or more long, nodding — Spring — Cassius, and 

 northward. Many fine varieties of this species are cultivated in Syiia, 



4, R.UBUS, Bramble. Blackberry. ''Ulleiq. Kubush. 



Calyx bractless, lobes 5, persistent. Stamens 5. Style nearly termi- 

 nal, stigma simple or capitellate. Drupes 1 -seeded, with fleshy pericarp, 

 and wrinkled stone, more or less united into a deciduous, cylindrical or 

 spherical berry — Prickly shrubs, spreading by suckers, rarely herbs, 

 leaves alternate, ternate, quinate, or pinnate, stipuled, the black berry 

 (in ours) adherent to the receptacle. 



* Steins terete^ w obscurely angled. 



1. R. C8esiu§, L. 5 Stems_p?'osiraie, glabrous below, puberulent 

 above; prickles slender, straight or recurved. Leaves ternate, very 

 rarely quinate, green above, ovate, the lateral sessile. Racemes corymb- 

 ed ; sepals lanceolate, mucronate ; petals white ; fruit black, juicy — 

 Nusairy Mountais to Amanus, and northward. 



* * Stems angled and often grooved. 



2. R. toiiieiitosu§, Borckh. 5 Prickles wealc, someioliat in- 

 curved. Leaves quinate and ternate, green to canescent above, canes- 

 cent below ; leaflets oblong-rhombic to ovate and obovate, tapering at 

 base, acute, the lower nearly sessile. Inflorescence sparingly woolly. 

 Raceme compound, dense ; flower white — Summer — Shady places, 

 Lebanon, Coelesyria to Cassius, Amanus, Akherdagh, and northw^ard. 



Var. collinus, Prickles stronger. Inflorescence densely woolly 

 — Common along coast and mountains to Aint^b, and northward. 



3. R-. discolor, W. et Nees. 5 Prickles strong, daw-like. Leaves 

 ternate or lowermost quinate ; leaflets glabrous or sparingly puberulent, 

 pale green above, pannous below, ovate or orbicular, obtuse, acute 

 or acuminate ; petiole plano-convex above. Terminal raceme compo- 

 site ; flowers pi?ih ; fruits with many carpels — Summer — Hedges ; 

 common throughout. 



5. OEUM, L. Avens. 



Calyx-tube, concave or top-shaped, 10-fid, lobes in two rows, the 

 outer five shorter. Petals 5. Receptacle cylindrico-conical, dry. 

 Style elongated after flowering, (in ours) hirsute — Perennial herbs, 

 with odd-pinnatisect leaves, the terminal segment much larger than the 

 lateral. 



