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clasping at base, acute and acuminate. Clusters 2-3-flowered below, 

 1-flowered above, remote, pedicels as long as ovate, acuminate bract 

 and calyx ; calyx .004 long, cleft nearly to base ; corolla .01 broad ; 

 capsule ovate-globular, .005 long, woolly, at length glabrous — July 

 — Wadi Ibrisah, above el Hurmul (Lebanon). • 



1§. Y, Trlpolitamim, Boiss. (D 1 to 2 ; stem glabrescent, 

 turning black, ending in a broad panicle. Sterile 

 rosettes rusty-jDannous, fertile leaves yellowish- Fig. 263. 



green ; lower leaves .3 to .5 long, oblong to ob- 

 lanceolate, petioled, crenate-lobed to crenate, 

 upper oblong-lanceolate, not deeurrent. Flowers 

 3-4 in a cluster, clusters distant, bracts cordate- 

 acuminate ; pedicels shorter than calyx ; calyx 

 .006 long, cleft beyond middle ; corolla yellow, 

 .02 broad ; capsule ovate, scarcely longer than 

 calyx — Summer — Coast to 1000 m. in moun- 

 tains ; common. 



19. V. smuatiim, L. (|) 1 to 2, more or 

 less densely woolly, yellow or grey ; stem end- 

 ing in a long, broad panicle. Root-leaves ob- 

 long -spathulate, .3 to .5 long, nearly sessile, 

 sinuate-pinnatifid, usually icavy ; w'^^qv leaves Flower and capsules of 

 oblong, entire^ acute, sJiort-decurrent. Flowers ^- Tnpoiitanum. 

 2-5 in distant clusters, bracts cordate-acuminate ; pedicels unequal, 

 the longest as long as calyx ; calyx .003 long, cleft beyond middle ; 

 capsule globular, rather shorter than calyx — Waysides and sterile 

 places ; common. 



20. V. Gadarense, Post. (Plant. Postian. Fasc. VI). (2) 1-2, 

 stem red, clothed with appressed, detersile wool, nearly two-winged 

 ly means of deeurrent leaves. Leaves of rosettes yellowish, densely 

 beset with appressed, stellate wool, oblong, .15 to .35 long, more or 

 less lobed or crenate, at first wavy then flat ; stem-leaves appressed- 

 stellate-tomentellous, the lower oblong, long-decurrent, more or less 

 lobed, crenate, the floral cordate-triangular, acuminate, less deeurrent, 

 with obsoletely crenate margin or entire. Flowers .02 broad, 1-8 in 

 distant clusters, bracts diminishing ; pedicels as long as calyx or 

 shorter ; calyx .003 long, appressed-stellate-puberulent, split to base 

 into ovate-lanceolate lobes ; corolla yellow, glandular-punctate at outer 

 surface, hirtulous; filaments purple-woolly ; capsule ovate spherical, 

 twice as long as calyx — July and August — M-K^s (Gadara). 



21. V. Qulebicum, Post. (Journ. Linn. Soc. Bot. XXIV. p. 

 437). (D 1 to 2 ; stem stout, ending in a panicle .3 to .4 long and 

 broad. Leaves colwelly -fleecy, the radical .2 to .4 long, .06 to .15 

 broad, oblong, tapering at base, acutish, crenate-serrate and lobed, 

 sessile ; uppermost leaves sessile, rounded atjbase, lanceolate-acuminate. 

 Flowers 2-5 in a cluster, minute, pedicels longer than calyx ; calyx in 

 flower .002 long, split nearly to base ; corolla * * ; capsules smaller 

 than a pea, ovate-spherical, longer than calyx ; fruiting clusters as 

 large as a filbert — June — In pumice on flanks of Jebel Quleb 

 (Hauran). 



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