316 CRASSULACE^. (ORPINE FAMILY.) 



.5 to .7 high, stout ; cymes corymbose, with scorpioid branches ; flower 

 short pedicelled, .008 broad ; petals liaear-oblong, 3-3-times as long 

 as ovate, acutish calyx-lobes — Summer — Rocks ; coast, and coast 

 range of mountains to 1000 m. 



5. S. aiuplexicaule, D.C. 71 Glabrous, indurated at base. 

 Sterile branches ending in a cylindrical hud, composed of densely imbri- 

 cated leaves with a white, dilated, membranous, clasping base, and subulate 

 or needle-like apex, .01 ^c .015 long; base of fertile stem sheathed with 

 similar leaves ; upper leaves cylindincal-linear, subulate, spurred at base, 

 soon deciduous. Fertile stems .1 to .3 high, slender ; branches of cyme 

 2-3, few-flowered ; flowers sessile or short pedicelled, .01 broad ; 

 petals often 6-10, linear-acuminate, twice to twice and a half as long 

 as lanceolate, acute calyx-lobes — May and Jilne — Dry rocks ; Leba- 

 non and Antilebanon, and northward. 



Var. uncatuin. Post. Leaves of sterile branches ending in a 

 hooked awn — Lebanon, above el-Ma 'asir. 



* * Annu-als or monocarjyic. Leaves semi-terete or cylindrical. 



t Flowers 10-12-androus. 



X Petals white, or pink. 



6. S. ^laucum, W.K. or (D .05 to .15, glabrous or hairy 

 above, glaucous ; stem often branching from base. Leaves linear, some- 

 what flattened. Branches of cyme 2-6, scorpioid ; flowers one-sided, 

 usually 6-merous ; calyx-lobes ovate, acute ; petals with deep pink 

 keel, lanceolate-cuspidate ; carpels flattened, conical, .005 long, .002 

 broad, generally tubercled — February to April' — Rocks; common, 

 especially in mountains. 



Var. eriocarpum, Boiss. Carpels more or less hairy — Com- 

 mon. 



Var. polypetalum, Boiss. Petals often 7-9. Carpels elongated, 

 acute, glabrous — Common. 



Var. pallidum, Post. Flowers usually pentamerous, smaller than 

 type — Less common than the others {S. p>cillidum, M.B.) 



7. S. Steudelii, Boiss. .02 to .05. Stem simple or branched 

 below middle. Leaves glabrous, semi-terete, often .015 to .016 long. 

 Branches of cyme 2, puberulent, 1-3-flowered ; floral leaves overtop- 

 ping sessile flowers ; calyx-lobes ovate, acute ; petals lanceolate acu- 

 minate ; carpels lanceolate, acute, glandular-hairy — April — Rocks, 

 near Aleppo. 



I I Petals yellow or yellowish-ichite, with pinkish keel. 



8. S. littoreum, Guss. Glabrous ; stem .05 to .1 thick, 

 simple, or with clustered branches. Leaves spathulate-cuneiform, semi- 

 cylindrical. Branches of cyme 1-3, recurved ; flowers sub-sessile, .003 

 broad, not spreading. Calyx-lobes unequal, semi-terete, ovate, obtuse, 

 tico-thirds as long as pale yellow, lanceolate, acute or mucronate petals — 

 Spring — Common along coast. 



9. S. Palaestiiium, Boiss. Glabrous or minutely glandular 

 above; stem .05 to .1, branching from base or above. Leaves semi- 

 cylindrical, linear, obtuse. Branches of cyme 3-3, scorpioid ; flowers 

 sessile, 5-merous ; calyx-lobes ovate-triangular, one-sixth as long as 



