TLUMBAGINE^. (LEADWORT FAMILY.) 



* Calyx-limb reddish or purple. 

 A. laxiflorum, Boiss. 5 Branches .04 to 



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1. A. laxifloniin, Boiss. 5 Branches .04 to .08 long, black, 

 naked below, ending in a rosette of fleshy, 3-angied, cuspidate leaves, 

 .02 t« .03 long. Scapes longer than leaves, ending in a spike .06 to 

 .15 long; bracts scarioiis-margined, with a lo7ig, excurrent, reddish 

 midrib, the outer one-third shorter than the inner; calyx-tube hairy, 

 twice as long as obsoletely 5-lobed limb — June and July — Shingly 

 places ; Amanus. 



Var. condeiisattiin, Post 

 below. Spike shorter — Amanus. 



Branches shorter, more leafy 



Calyx-limb white or phik. 

 2. A. Baltanetise, Boiss. et Haussk. ^ 



Fig. 240. 



Branches .1 to .15 long, densely beset with .04 to 

 .07 long, needle-like leaves, thelower detexed. Scapes 

 .05 to .1 long, ending in a flexuous, 2-ranked 

 spike, .1 to .15 long; the outer bract considerably 

 longer than the less acuminate, mucronate, inner 

 one, and ending in a somewhat recurved cusp; calyx- 

 tube sparingly hairy, twice as long as crenately 

 lobed limb— June and July — - Above Hassan Beyley, 

 (Amanus). 



3. A. Armenum, Boiss. et Huet. 5 Branches 

 .05 to .08 long. Leaves .02 to .03 long, needle- 

 like from a broader base. Scapes about as long 

 as leaves, ending in a 1-2-ranked, more or less 

 flexuous spike, .05 to .1 long, with joints shorter 

 than bracts; bracts nearly equal, the lower acumin- 

 ate-spiny, the upper obtuse, mucronate; calyx- 

 tube hirsute, about as long as limb — Summer. 



Yar. BaSaiisae, Boiss. Leaves somewhat nar- 

 rower, often longer. Outer bract rusty-colored 

 within the scarious margin — Alpine and subalpine 

 Hermon, Antilebanon, AkherDagh, and northward. 



4. A. liotseliyi, Jaub. et Sp. 5 Branches 

 .03 to .06 long. Leaves .015 to .02 long, .0025 

 broad at base, linear-acuminate, prickly. Spikes 



almost sessile, .03 to .05 long, 5-11-spiculed, dense, imbricated, 2- 

 ranked, Jlattened, straight; bracts nearly equal, the outer cuspidate, 

 the inner keeled, mucronate; calyx-tube hirtulous, a little longer than 

 crenate limb — Summer — Alpine Akher Dagh, and northward. 



5. A. Libaiioticuiii, Boiss. 5 Branches .02 to .05 long, 

 densely beset below with old, blackened leaves. Leaves .01 to .02 

 long, cuspidate. Spike almost sessile, .02 to .03 long, 3-7-spiculed, 

 loose; bracts nearly equal, keeled, the outer tapering-cuspidate, the 

 inner abruptly-cuspidate; calyx-tube hispidulous, about half as long as 

 obsoletely 5-lobed limb — June to October — Alpine and subalpine 

 Lebanon and Antilebanon. 



Spike of 

 A. Ballanense. 



Var. ulieiiium, Boiss. Leaves .01 1od| 

 long — Same range as type. 



Spikes .015 to .02 



