670 PLANTAGINEiE. (PLANTAIN FAMILY.) 



shorter; spikes globular to ovate and oblong, .008 to .03 long; bracts 

 round-ovate, glabrous, obtuse, midrib herbaceous, extending to tip, 

 margin scarious ; calyx-lobes ovate, obtuse, scarious, glabrous or pubes- 

 cent; corolla-lobes ovate or round, mucronulate — Spring — Sandy 

 places ; coast and deserts. 



9» P. IIaus§kncc]itii, Vatke. Hirsute-canescent, stemless. 

 Leaves entire, linear-oblong to linear, entire, somewhat 3-nerved, taper- 

 ing at base. Scapes slender, somewhat striate, rather longer than leaves, 

 .04 to .08 long; spikes oblong to oblong-cylindrical; bracts ovate-or- 

 Mcular, obtuse, Jie£C7/ at lack^ with a herbaceous excurrent midrib, and 

 broad, scarious margin ; calyx-lobes hirsute toward tip ; corolla-lobes 

 omte, «cwf(? — Spring — Moab and Gilead, and eastward. 



10. P. phseopis, Paine. (Third Statement, Palestine Exploration 

 Society, p. 120). ©Pubescent, stemless. Leaves entire, or once forward- 

 ly incised on each margin near the tip, 3- or obscurely many-nerved, be- 

 coming glabrescent. Scapes as long as leaves, slender, .05 to .1 long; 

 spikes ovate to short-cylindrical, .008 to .015 long; bracts orbicular, 

 densely fleecy^ scarious, with a hei'baceous, obtusely excurrent midrib ; 

 calyx-lobes orbicular, scarious, glabrous; coroWei-lohes ordicular-obovate, 

 obtuse, yellowish-red toward base — April and May — Moab; Hauran. 

 Readily distinguished from P. Hausknechtii by its glabrous calyx-lobes, 

 and from P. ovata by its fleecy bracts. Hardly distinguishable from 

 sparingly laciniated, narrow-leaved forms of P. notata, La.g. 



11. P. notata, Lag. More or less hirsute, stemless, pale 

 green. Leaves sessile, lanceolate to linear, 3-5-nerved, almost entire or 



furnished on either side loith distant, linear, acuminate lobes and lobules, 

 usually with a truft of hairs at base. Scapes declined, hardly as long as 

 leaves ; spikes ovate to cylindrical, ,01 to .03 long ; bracts ovate- orbicular, 

 fleecy at back, herbaceous at midrib, otherwise scarious, as long as calyx ; 

 calyx fleecy at base, lobes glabrescent, altogether scarious, ovate, obtuse ; 

 corolla-lobes buff-colored, ovate-orbicular, mucronulate or muticous — 

 February to May — Sandy places ; Philistine Plain. 



12. P. I^agopus, L. Widnah. Stemless, neck hirsute. Leaves 

 glabrescent to hirsute, lanceolate to oblanceolate, tapering to a petiok, 3- 

 5-nerved, often .2 long, entire or obsoletely denticulate. Scapes angled- 

 sulcate, 1-4-times as long as leaves; spikes ovate to cylindrical, .015 to 

 .07 long, dense; bracts ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, scarious except at 

 green midrib, villous above ; calyx-lobes villous at tip, the lateral 

 keeled ; corolla-lobes ovate, acute or acuminate, more or less hairy along 

 nerve — March to July — Grassy places; coast, mountains to 1000 m., 

 and interior plains ; Jordan Valley. 



13. P. ciliata, Desf. Silky-canescent, stemless or caulescent. 

 Leaves obovatc or oblanceolate^spathulate, acutish, tapering to a petiole. 

 Peduncles thickish, as long as leaves or shorter ; spikes ovate to oblong, 

 .008 to .02 long; bracts ovate, obtuse, green and hirtulous along mid- 

 rib, margin broad, scarious, long-ciliate; calyx-lobes ovate, scarious, 

 long-ciliate at margin ; corolla-lobes lanceolate, long-villous at outer sur- 

 face — Spring — Sands ; Et-Tih to Sinai and Egypt. 



14. P. Coroiiopu§, L, d) More or less appressed-hirsute, 

 stemless. Leaves oblong -lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, pinnate-dentate 

 or 1-2-pinnatifid into lanceolate to linear, acuto lobules. Scapes longer 



