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Telvety at apex, one-third to one-fourth longer than calyx, club-shaped, ; 

 filaments shorter than included anthers ; nutlets .005 long, smooth, 

 glossy — May to July— Dry places ; subalpine Lebanon, Antilebanon, 

 and Jebel-ed-Dur^z to Cassius, Amanus, Aleppo, Aintab, Marash, and 

 northward and eastward. 



Var. flaviim, Post. Generally yellowish. Nutlets more or less 

 scrobiculate-tubercled. {O.Jfavum, Lehm.) — Same range as type. 



\ X Hairs of leaves appressed or spreading, of stems and injlorescence 

 spreading. 



3. O. fVutesceiis, Lam. % 3. to .5, branching from base and 

 above ; stems leaf}^, flexuous. Root-leaves oblong-spathulate, stem- 

 leaves oblong to linear and linear-lanceolate. Racemes 1-3, terminal, 

 capitate, little elongated in fruit ; calyx-lobes .01 long in fruit, lanceo- 

 late-linear, connivent ; corolla glabrous or puberulent, yellow, often 

 drying 2:)urplish, one-third longer than calyx ; anthers somewhat exsert- 

 ed, longer than filaments ; nutlets .004 long, ovate, smooth, glossy 

 — May to September — Rocks; coast and middle mountain zone, and 

 inland plains ; top of Mt. Cassius. 



Var. tuberculata, Post. Nutlets finely tubercled — Zahleh ; 

 Palestine. (Perhaps 0. strigosissimtim, Boiss.). 



4. O. Cas§iuin5 Boiss. 2]! .5 to .8, stems ascending, simple, 

 leafy, sparingly bristly. Loaves green, sparingly beset with small 

 bristles, otherwise glabrous, oblong, obtuse, the upper half-clasping. 

 Racemes few, terminal, corymbose-paniculate, elongated in fruit; 

 fruiting c?dyx pediceUed, .012 long, erect, with linear-lanceolate lobes; 

 corolla glabrous, yellow, one-third longer than calyx ; anthers slightly 

 exserted, with very short filaments ; nutlets .004 long, ovate, keeled, 

 acute, glossy, marbled — Summer — Middle region of Cassius and 

 x\manus. 



* * Bristles of leaves arising from stellate-hairy tubercles. 



t Perennials; .15 to .3 high. 



5. O, molle, DC. % .2 to .5, tufted, pannous-canescent, the 

 terminal bristle scarcely longer than the stellate hairs, closely appres- 

 sed. Leaves hroad-linear, radical .08 to .15 long, long-petioled, 

 cauline sessile. Racemes 1-3, terminal, in fruit .15 to .2 long, rigid; 

 calyx-lobes lanceolate, .01 long in flower, .014 in fruit; pedicel 

 short, thick; corolla .02 to .025 long, cream-colored, velvety, one-third 

 longer than calyx to twice as long ; anthers included, twice as long as 

 filament ; nutlets ovate-triangular, acute, smooth, spotted — El- Jebel- 

 el-Abiad in Syrian desert, and eastward to the Euphrates. 



6. O. albo-roseimi, F. et M. If .15 to .25, stellate-pannous 

 and appressed-setose, not very strigose. Radical-leaves spathulate, 

 petioled, cauline oblong-linear. Racemes capitate, calyx woolly or 

 hispid, lobes linear-lanceolate, .018 long; coioWo, pruinose, .02 long, club- 

 shaped, .008 broad at tip, white, becoming red, then blue, one-third to 

 one-half longer than calyx ; anthers included ; nutlets . 005 long, ob- 

 long-ovoid, glossy, smooth or obsoletely wrinkled — May to July — 

 Rocks ; Dervent to Amanus, Aintab, and northward and eastward. 



Var. longicalyx, Post. Calyx .025 to .03 long. 



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