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UMBELLIFER^. (PARSLEY FAMILY.) 



11. B. Boissieri, Post. © .5 to 1, dicliotomously branched 

 from base ; smaller hraTit^lies ascending or appressed. Umbels unequally 

 2-d-YSijed, racemed along the slender hranches ; bracts of involucre 1-2; 

 bracts of involucel 4-5, barely longer than 1-5-flowered umbellet; 

 fruit tioiceas long as pedicels, with acute ribs — August and September 

 — Amanus, from base to 1000 m. 



I \ Bracts of involucel 1-nej'ved, linear-lanceolate to subulate. 



12. B. Ocrardi, Jacq. .3 to .6, dichotomous, corymlose 

 atove. Umbels terminal, unequally 5-8-rayed, the longer rays 2-3 

 times as long as involucre ; bracts of involucre and involucel linear- 

 subulate, the latter once and a half as long as the 2-7-flowered umbellets ; 

 fruit as long as pedicels, with jSlif orm ribs — May and June — Rocky 

 and sterile places ; Lebanon to Damascus, Palmyra, Cassius, Amanus, 

 Aintab, and northward and eastward. 



Var. aciiiniiiatuiii, Post. Bracts of involucel long-acuminate, 

 twice to three times as long as umbellets — Ccelesyria ; Aintab. 



Fig. 173. 



13. B. Liibanoticum, Boiss. et Bl. .3 to .5, 



dichotomous from base ; branches more or less incurved. 

 Umbels terminal and lateral, long-peduncled, somewhat 

 unequally 2-5-rayed ; bracts of involucre 1-3, one-quarter 

 as long as longer rays ; bracts of involucel shorter than 

 -flowermg, and from one-third to as long as fruiting 

 umbellet; fruits rather longer than pedicels, ovate-pris- 

 matic, vfith jyrominent ribs — Summer — Middle and subal- 

 pine Lebanon. 



14. B. tricliopodum, Boiss. et Spinin. .3 

 to .5, slender, dichotomous; branches somewhat angled. 

 Umbels 3-5-6-rayed, rays capillary^ nearly equal ; bracts 

 of involucre 2, of involucel 5, subulate-setaceous, longer than flowers, 

 as long as fruits ; pedicels about as long as oblong-linear fruit ; ribs 

 acute — April and May — Northern Lebanon (Tristram). 



Fruiting umbel 



of B. 



Libanoticum. 



15. B. Cappadocicum, Boiss. 



filiform^ dichotomous, somewhat zigzag 

 rarely 2-6-rayed, terminal 2-3-rayed or 

 2-3, and of involucel 5, lanceolate-se- 

 taceous, the former much shorter than. 

 rays, the latter about as long as the 2- 

 7-flowered umbellet ; fruits ovate, long- 

 er than pedicels, with filiform ribs — 

 May and June — Dry places ; Akkar to 

 Antioch, Aleppo, Aintab, and north- 

 ward and eastward. 



1 1 Perennials^ woody at base. 



16. B. Antiocliinm, Post. If 

 .8 to 1; stems erect, simple below, 

 dichotomously panicled above. Leaves 

 flaccid, linear-lanceolate, .1 to .16 long, 

 .005 to .018 broad, acute, 5-nerved, 



.4 to 1 ; stem slender, with 

 branches. Lateral umbels 1- 

 abortive; bracts of involucre 



Fig. 174. 



Fruiting umbellet of B. Antiocliiuni 



