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.03 long, acute, tapering at base, the lower short-petioled. Racemes 

 rather loose, bracteate below; flowers minute; calyx-lobes erect; corol- 

 la hirsute without, glabrous within ; stigma nearly sessile, subulate 

 above, penicillate at apex; nutlets glabrous — May to September — 

 Fields ; Phcenician coast to Hamath, Aintab, Aleppo, and northward. 



3. H. Europaeum, L. 8ekrdn. ''Ufein. .3 to .5, green, 



scabrous, with short, appressed hairs tubercled at base. Leaves petioled, 

 elliptical, obtuse. Corolla-tube hirsute within ; stigma puberulent or 

 glabrous on short style, longer than hroad — Summer and autumn — 

 Fields and roadsides. 



Var. teuuiflorum, Boiss. More canescent. Stigma more 

 pubescent. Nutlets hispid — Common throughout. 



IT IF Stigma cup-shaped {depressed-conical). 



4. H. Tillosum, Willd. .3 to .4, tomentose with dense, 

 short, appressed wool, intermixed with longer, spreading hairs. Leaves 

 petioled, ovate, obtuse ; corolla glabrous or hirsute within, ribs ending 

 in a tooth below the throat ; anthers adnate below middle of tube ; 

 stigma nearly sessile, much hroader than long — Summer and autumn 

 — Fields and roadsides ; common. 



Var. brevilimbum, Boiss. Limb of corolla smaller — Syrian 

 coast. 



1 1 Corolla-loles more or less valvate, connivent in hud, straight or curved. 

 X Limh of corolla 5-loded. 



5. H. Sclaweliifartliii, Boiss. .3 to .4, appressed-wooUy, 

 canescent. Leaves petioled, ovate, obtusish, lineate at upper surface, 

 and prominently nerved at lower. Corolla hirsute ; anthers near base of 

 corolla-tube, ending in a long, hooked 2^oint; style short ; stigma broad 

 at base, conical-subulate, hirsute at tip — Summer — Near Sheturah. 



6. H. XSovei, Boiss. .3 to .5, appressed-canescent. Leaves 

 petioled, ovate to elliptical, obtuse, lineate at upper surface, prominent- 

 ly nerved below. Racemes long, loose ; corolla glabrous within, limb as 

 long as tube, with or without teeth in sinuses ; anthers inserted below 

 middle of tube, but reaching to its throat, with inflexed tip; stigma 

 n«aWy sessiZe, long-tapering, hispid above; nutlets hispidulous or gla- 

 brous, tubercled — May to September — Fields; Syrian coast to Ccele- 

 syria, Aintab, Marash, and northward and westward. 



\ X Limb of corolla with 5, supplementary lobes in sinuses. 



7. H. circinnatum, Oriseb. .3 to .5, soft-appressed-villous, 

 canescent, much branched. Leaves ovate and oblong, obtuse, short- 

 petioled, prominently nerved at lower surface. Racemes often . 3 long, 

 loose; corolla .005 long, hirsute without, glabrous within, limb longer 

 than tube, lobes triangular at base, aiol-sha2Jed at apex, circinnate in bud, 

 the intermediate a little shorter ; anthers with inflexed tips ; stigma 

 elongated, conical; nutlets smooth, glabrous — Summer — Gravelly 

 places; Marash, and eastward. 



