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longer than dense, short, sessile spikelets. 

 Spikelets often .1 to .13 long in fruit, horizontal, ^-ranked; calyx-lobes 

 strigose, lanceolate; corolla .01 long, a little longer than calyx — May 

 to July — Common throughout to subalpine regions. 



1 1 Corolla red, white, or Utie, .013 to .02 or more in length. 



3. E. sericeum, Vahl. 21 Sdq-el-Hamdm. Lisdn-el-'' Asal. .2 to 

 .4, canescent with minute, appressed wool, and (in type) appressed 

 bristles ; stems decunibent or 2)rostrate. Leaves broad-linear, the lower 

 tapering to a petiole, margin usually involute, sometimes wavy ; the 

 floral triangular-lanceolate. Spikes panicled, at length .2 to .3 long; 

 calyx-lobes linear; corolla 7'ed, drying Uue, .02 to .025 long, twice and 

 a half as long as calyx ; nutlets . 003 long, grey, wrinkled-tubercled, 

 pyramidal-beaked — October to May — Sandy places ; Et-Tih, and 

 southward. 



Var. diffusum, Boiss. Stems diffuse, as in type, but bristles 

 spreading, not ajjpressed — Sandy places ; common along coast. 



Var. hi§picluiii, Boiss. .4 to .8; stems erect or ascending, 

 to strigose, bristles, even of leaves, spreading — Sandy places ; coast and 

 interior. 



4, E. longifolium, Del. .3 to .6, stems herbaceous, pubes- 

 cent, and hispid with long hairs, branching. Leaves pale-green, the 

 radical Ungulate, .1 to .2 long, long tapering at base, the cauline and 

 floral linear. Spikes terminal, at length elongated and loose ; calyx 

 white-bristly, lobes linear-lanceolate; corolla funnel-shaped, violet, 

 thrice as long as calyx ; stamens little exserted ; nutlets tertragonal- 

 conical, sparingly tubercled-wrinkled, echinate — Spring — Fields ; 

 Sinai to Egypt. 



Var. nanum, Post. .15 to .25. Indument strigose — Et-Tth. 



5, E. I&auwolfii, Boiss. Keheild. Rind-el- Ohul. Kudah, 

 .3 to .6, strigose with stiff, white 'bristles; stems erect, panicled above. 

 Lower leaves linear-spathulate, tapering to a long petiole, the ujoper 

 linear, the floral as long as calyx or longer. Calyx-lobes strigose, lan- 

 ceolate, unequal; corolla white or pale pinh, .012 to .015 long, irregu- 

 larly campanulate ; stamens little exserted ; nutlets .003 long, greyish- 

 white, obsoletely tubercled, glossy — Spring — South end of Dead Sea, 

 and southward to Sinai and Egypt. 



6, E. plantag^ineum, L. (D .3 to .6, appressed-stellate- 

 tomentellous, with spreading, tubercled hairs intermixed ; stems erect 

 or ascending, loosely panicled. Radical leaves .1 long, ovate to oblong, 

 tapering to a petiole, feather-veined; cauline oblong, half-clasping; 

 floral oblong-lanceolate, cordate at base. Spicules peduncled ; corolla 

 violet, .02 to .03 long, three to four times as long as calyx, limb expanded; 

 stamens sometimes little exserted; nutlets .003 long, rough-tubercled, 

 keeled, bigibbous — Spring — Fields and roadsides ; common to sub- 

 alpine regions. 



