ROSACEA, (rose family.) 305 



* Style dejiexed in fruity its lower joint lioolced at apex^ 



1. Cr. urbanum, L. 2( .5 Root-leaves sometimes round- orate, 

 cordate, incised-lobed and dentate, long petioled: the other leaves with 

 5-7 ovate-oblong segments, cuneate at base, incised-dentate. Flowers 

 erect, 2-3; petals yellow, longer than calyx-lobes ; carpojpliore ; lower 

 joint of style glabrous — Summer — Woods ; subalpiue Lebanon, 

 Amanus, Marash, Aintab, and northward. 



* + Style straight in fruit. Its lower joint not JiooJced. 



2. O. lieterocarpum, Boiss. If Root-leaves with minute 

 lateral, and large terminal, reniform-orbicular segments. Flowers 

 somewhat noddi7ig, 5-9 ; petals yellowish-white, s/wrier than calyx-lobes; 

 carpophore as long as calyx-tube ; lower joint of style retrosely hispid at 

 apex — Early Summer — Thickets ; Galilee ; subalpine and alpine 

 Lebanon. 



6. FRAGARIA, L. Strawberry. Tarola. 



Calyx spreading, the ten divisions in two rows, the outer smaller. 

 Petals 5. Stamens oo . Carpels oo , implanted on the surface of a conical 

 receptacle, which becomes fleshy m fruit, and constitutes a spurious 

 berry. Style lateral, short, deciduous — Perennial herbs, with trefoil 

 leaves, white flowers, and stoloniferous root-stock. 



F, vesca, L, Wild Strawberry, Kubush 2f Petioles and pedun- 

 cles hirsute. The whole receptacle covered with carpels — June — Woods ; 

 Cassius, Amanus, and northward. 



7. POTE]^TIL.L.A, L. Cinquepoil. 



Calyx spreading, its 1 divisions in two rows, the exterior smaller. 

 Petals 5-4. Stamens go. Carpels oo , inserted on a dry, convex or 

 conical disk. Style lateral, short, deciduous — Perennial herbs or small 

 shrubs, with digitate, trefoil, or pinnate leaves and yellow petals. 



* Receptacle hirsute with long hairs, concealing the usually hirsute carpels. 



1. P. Libanotica, Boiss. If .3 to .3, glandular hirsute ; stem 

 thick, scaly above ; branches simple, compactly corymbose above. Root- 

 leaves long- stem-leaves short-petioled, leaflets ternate, nearly sessile, 

 cuneate at base, obovate, crenate-serrate. Petals obovate, longer than 

 calyx, filaments hirsute at base — Summer — Fissures of rocks ; sub- 

 alpine and alpine Lebanon. 



Perhaps P. speciosa, Willd. may be in our district. 



* * Receptacle glabrous, or with hairs no longer than the glabrous carpels. 



t Perennials. 

 \ Leaves, at least the lower pinnate. 



2. P. aii§erina, L. 2f .3 to .5, stems creeping, rooting at 

 joints. Leaves interruptedly pinnate, with numerous pairs, silvery- 

 silky beneath or on both sides, acutely serrate ; stipules sheathing, 

 fimbriated. Flowers solitary, long peduncled, springing from joints, 

 .015 to .02 broad ; petals obovate, twice as long as calyx-lobes — Sum- 

 mer — Subalpine Lebanon, near Lake Yamuni. 



3. P. lilrta, L. 11 .2 to .5, glandular-hirsute, with short wool 

 intermixed ; stems erect. Leaves quinate and septennate, leaflets 



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