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rays, the longest .02 long, contracted in Fig. 189. 



/?"M2Y/ mcricfrrps elliptical, .005 long, .003 

 broad, with flat disk, a little Iroader than 

 pithy margin — August — Rocky hillside ; 

 Kapucham, near Marash. 



5. J. jimcea, Boiss. 2^ 1 to 3 ; 

 stem naked, alternately stiff-branched 

 above. Leaves mo.^tly radical, .06 to .2 

 long, oblong in outline, bi[)innatisect, the 

 segments .004 ^o .008 long, j^inndtiijartite into 

 oblong -acuminate lobules, .002 to. 003 long, 



with somewhat revolute margins; stem- rruitins-'Tmbel of 



leaves smaller, the ujjper reduced to linear, •'• i'o^eri. 



acuminate bracts. Umbels long-peduncled, with 6-8 unequal rays, 

 involucel of 0-7, acuminate l)racts ; fruit * * — July and August — 

 Sterile fields; between Rasheyah and the base of Hermon; southern 

 part of Nusairy Mountains. 



6. J. aurea, Boiss. et Bal. 2f .05 to .2 ; root-stock woody, 

 branching near surface into numerous, short, tortuous, transversely striate 

 items, scarcely rising above the soil, surmounted by a rosette of spread- 

 ing, oblong leaves, .02 to .04 long, pinnatisect into two and a half to 

 four and a half pairs of .005 long, rouud-ovate segments, dissected into 

 .002 long, oblong, acute, simple or 2-8-fid lobes. Flowering stems .1 

 to .15 long, simple or bifid above ; umbels with 3-4 unequal rays, the 

 longest .015 long ; bracts of involucel 5-6, linear, as long as flowers ; 

 fruits oblong, .004 long, .002 broad ; das\iJioe times as broad as mar- 

 gin — August and September — Top of Jebel Sunnin. 



50. PEUCEDA^tJM, L. Peucedanum. 



Flowers hermaphrodite. Calyx-teeth obsolete, or more or less 

 prominent. Fruit flattened or lenticular at back, surrounded by a flat- 

 tened, dilated margin. The three intermediate ribs filiform, the later- 

 al near or at the margin. Oil-tubes solitary or 2-3 in intervals — Per- 

 ennial herbs, with (in ours) yellow flowers, and involucre or many- 

 leaved. 



1. P. Hutlienicum, M. B. 1 to 2 ; stem stout, paniculate. 

 Leaves 3-5, ternately divided, the primary, secondary, tertiary, and qua- 

 ternary petioles long, naked, the latter ending in linear-lanceolate to 

 linear, rigid, simple or 2-3-fid lobes, .02 to .06 long. Umbels 5-13-ray- 

 ed ; bracts of involucre and involucel subulate, the former caducous ; 

 pedicel slender, about as long as fiuit ; mericarps elliptical to ovate, 

 with margin half as broad as seed ; ribs prominent — September — 

 Middle zone of mountain north of 'Othmaniyeh (Amanus). 



2. P. depauperatuiii. Boiss. et Bal. If .6 to .8, glaucous; 

 stems stifi:, dichotomous, naked above. Root-leaves .2 long, oblong- 

 lanceolate in outline, 1-2-pinnatisect into two and a half pairs of ob- 

 lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, or cuneate-oblong, 3-5-lobed segments; 

 upper reduced to narrow, linear-caudate bracts. Rays 2-5, unequal, 

 contracted in fruit, umbels forming a narrow^ raceme-like panicle ; invol- 

 ucre ; bracts of involucel minute, oblong; umbellets 3-5-flowered; 



