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rninate, 5-nerved. Umbels unequally 5-rayed., the longer rays longer 

 than involucre; bracts of involucel lanceolate, acute, twice as long as 

 flowers, translucent, pinnate-veined, 3-nerved, the lateral nerves near 

 the margin ; pedicels unequal, longer than ovary — May and June — 

 Fields ; common, especially northward. 



Var. teuuifolium, Post. Leaves narrowly linear — Lattakia. 



Var. coudensatuni, Post. Umbels and umbellets half as large 

 as in type, more densely clustered. Bracts of involucel lanceolate — 

 Beirut. 



5. B. nodiflorum, Sibth. .3 to .5, 2-3-chotomously 

 blanched from base. Leaves linear-lanceolate to linear, 3-5-nerved. 

 Umbels head-like^ sessile, i^ays 3-6, all shorter tlian involucre ; bracts of 

 involucel ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, mucronate, translucent^ three 

 heeled — March to June — Fields; common to alpine regions. 



6. B. brevicaule, Schlecht. .3 to .5, 2-3-chotomously 

 branched from base. Leaves linear-lanceolate to linear, 5-nerved. 

 Umbels sessile, unequally 3- 5-rayed, the longer rays longer than involu- 

 cre ; bracts of involucre lanceolate, acute, mucronate, opaque^ 5-n£rved, 

 not heeled — May — Fields; Galilee to Coelesyria, Damascus, Aleppo, 

 and northward. 



7. B. Aleppieum, Boiss. .3 to. 6, with curved, graceful, 

 dichotomous branches. Leaves linear to linear-lanceolate, 5-7 -nerved. 

 T^vahQls, noddAng in fruit, \iiie,(\\idl\j 3-4-rayed, the longer rays longer 

 than involucre ; bracts of involucel elliptical-lenticular, short-mucro- 

 nate, scarious, translucent, yellowish-green in flower, white in fruit, with 

 5 nerves connected by anastomosing, oblique veins — May to July — 

 Fields ; Aleppo to Aintab, and northward and eastward. A graceful 

 and pretty species. 



* * * Leaves linear, or oblong -lanceolate. 



t Annuals. 



\ Bracts of involucel "^-nerved, linear-lanceolate. 



§ Bruit granular-muricate, with nearly obsolete ribs. 



§. B. glaiiciim, Rob. et Cast. .1 to .3, dichotomously 

 branched from base. Umbels unequally 3-5-rayed, near top of branches, 

 bracts of involucel a little longer than the flowers ; fruit pedicelled, 

 nearly globular, twin — Spring — Fields and grassy places. 



§ § Fruit smooth. 



9, B. Kurdicum, Boiss. © .3 to. 5; stems stifiiy dichotomous 

 above. Umbels terminal, with 6-10, short, nearly equal, angled rays ; 

 bracts of involucre and involucel 5 each, the former half as long as rays, 

 the latter hardly as long as flowers ; fruit a little longer than pedicels, 

 with lieeled ribs and deefj intervals — June — Road-sides and grassy 

 places; Amanus to Marash, and northward and eastward. 



10. B. dlcliotomuni, Boiss. © .B to .4, dichotomously 

 branched. Umbels terminal, unequally 3-4-rayed ; involucre of 1-3 

 bracts; bracts of involucel 3-4, shoi'ter than 3-7-flowered umbellet; 

 fruit nearly twice as long as pedicels, with prominent ribs — June to 

 August — Dry places ; Lebanon to 800 m. ; Cassius. 



