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LABIATE. (MINT FAMILY.) 



Whorls usually distant, often .05 to .1 apart, .02 to .01 broad, floral 

 leaves .01 to .015 long, membranous, green, glabrous, netted, cordate 

 at base, long-acuminate, much longer than whorls ; calyx-teetb lanceo- 

 late, ciliate, half as long as sparingly glandular tube ; corolla yellow, 

 with enclosed tube — Summer — Dry hillsides ; Jaulan to coast, mid- 

 dle Lebanon, Antilebanon, and northward. 



Var. Cra<1areii§i§, Post. Stems and leaves pannous with crisp, 

 grey wool; floral leaves abruptly sho^^t-acuminate, a little longer than 

 flowers; upper whorls approximated — Below M'K^s (Jaulan). 



9. §. g^laudulifera, Post. 

 (Plant. Postian. Fasc. V. p. 16). If 

 .5 to 1, glandular-puberulent, with 

 intermixture of long, white hairs ; 

 stems stiff, simple, or few-branch- 

 ed above. Leaves veined, those of 

 the sterile clusters at base fleecy, ob- 

 long to obovate^spathulate, crenate, 

 .03 to .04 long including petiole, 

 .008 to .01 broad ; stem-leaves 

 'bright green, puberulent or glabres- 

 eent, veined, sessile, cordate-clasp- 

 ing at base, oblong-lanceolate to 

 oblong-ovate, .03 to .05 long, cre- 

 nulate-denticulate, acute. Whorls 

 closely approximated, .02 broad, 

 forming a spike .1 or more long; 

 floral leaves bright green, puberu- 

 lent or glabrescent, cordate-ovate, 

 long-acuminate at lower whorls, ab- 

 ruptly so at upper, in all a little 

 shorter than calyces ; calyx pubes- 

 cent, teeth two-thirds as long as 

 tube ; corolla yellow, with enclos- 

 ed tube — Summer — Amanus. 



Fig. 305. 



Spike of Sideritis glandulifera. 



19. MARRUBIUIXI, L. Hore-hound. 



Calyx tubular, 5-10-toothed, equal. Corolla-tube included or slight- 

 ly exserted, limb bilabiate, the upper lip erect, retuseor bifid, the lower 

 spreading, trifid. Stamens didynamous, straight, parallel, included, 

 anthers divaricate ; style bifid, with short, obtuse lobes. Nutlets obtuse 

 — Perennial or annual herbs with wrinkled leaves. 



* Calyx-teeth Jive. 



t Calyx-teeth a third to a fourtfi as long as tube. 



1. M. I^ibaiioticum, Boiss. 11 .2 to .4, more or less pannous 

 below, woolly above, yellowish ; branches procumbent at base, erect 

 above. Leaves orbicular or obovate, .01 to .014 long, crenulate, 

 petioled ; the floral longer than whorl. Whorls dense ; bracts subulate, 

 shorter than .005 long, stellate-tomentellous calyx ; calyx-teeth spiny- 

 tipped; -corolla flesh-colored, a little longer than calyx — June to Octo- 

 ber — Alpine regions of Lebanon and Hermon to Akher Dagh. 



