640 



LABIATJE. (mint FAMILY.) 



Fig. 300. 



Yar. piunatifida, Boiss. 

 Leaves deeply pinuatifid, small — 

 Alpine and subalpine regions. 



2. S. friitico§a, Desf. U .3 



to .5, ^YOolly and glandular-viscid, 

 indurated at base, branches nume- 

 rous, erect, or ascending, wand-like, 

 simple or opposite-branched. Leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, .01 to .03 long, 

 incised-creuate, truncate or cordate 

 at base, canescent at lower greyish 

 at upper surface ; floral leaves her- 

 baceous, ovate, .005 long, longer 

 than calyx. Flowers opposite, in in- 

 terrupted, loose racemes ; corolla yel- 

 low, with lower lip often purplish 

 — April to August — Dry hillsides ; 

 Jerusalem to Moab, Gilead, Hauran, 

 Damascus, Hermon, Ccelesyria, Le- 

 banon, Antilebanon, xVintab, Akher 



Dagh, and northward. Flowering branch of Scutellaria Orientalis, 



var. pinnatifida. 



'^- * Flowers in one-sided, leafy racemes. 



3. %» salviaefolia, Bth. 2( .15 to .3; stems numerous, pros- 

 trate or ascending from an indurated base. Leaves grey -velvety, with 

 glands interspersed, grooved at upper wrinkled at lower surface, peti- 

 oled, cuneate or truncate at base, elliptical, blade .01 long; floral leaves 

 oblong-elliptical, nearly entire, longer than calyces ; corolla yellow, 

 tube incurved at base — Summer — Amanus, and northward. 



4. S. diffusa, Bth. If .04 to .15, green, velvety with numerous 

 glands; neck much branched, branches prostrate, short, rooting. 

 Leaves petioled, ovate, .004 to .01 long, somewhat crenate, prominently 

 nerved below. Racemes .04 to .1 long; floral leaves petioled, ovate, 

 nearly entire, just longer than calyx; corolla hispid, red, .01 long 

 May and June 



Amanus to Marash, and northward. 



5. §. lieteroplsylla, Mont, et Auch. If .2 to .5, stems decum- 

 bent or ascending from a woody neck, simple or sparingly branched, 

 puberulent. Leaves pale green, velvety-glandular, lineate at upper, 

 wrinkled at lower surface, petioled, crenulate, the radical ovate, .006 to 

 .01 long, the cQMlme oMong to oMong-la?iceolate and Uneai'-lanceolate, .02 

 to .04 long, .003 to .003 broad; the floral linear-lanceolate, about as 

 long as calyces ; corolla viscid-hispid, yellow — April to June — Bushy 

 places ; subalpine Lebanon, Cassius, Amanus, Kurd Dagh, Aintab, and 

 northward. 



6, S. peregrina, L. 2f .3 to .G or 1, stems ascending or erect, 

 nearly glabrous, paniculate. Leaves petioled, truncate or cordate at 

 base, ovate, .01 to .04 long, coarse-toothed or crenate. Racemes .1 to 

 .3 long, loose, crisp-puberulent and someichat deset loith glandular hairs; 

 floral leaves ovate, acute or obtuse, longer than calyx. Corolla deep 

 i'io?fi, pubescent, four times as long as calyx; seeds pitted, canescent 

 with stellate hair — May to September — " 



