CtTINACEiE; (CtTINUS FAMILY.) 



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Fig. 324. 



long as or longer than internodes. Flowers 3-6 in axils, greenisJi, short- 

 pedicelled ; akenes .001 long, glossy — Summer — Coast. 



18. P. setosiiiti, Jacq. 5 -^ to .5, 

 glabrous, many stemmed ; stems stiff, erect 

 or ascending, striate, ending in simple, or 

 sparingly panicled racemes. Leaves as long 

 as internodes, or longer, .01 to .025 long, 

 .002 broad, linear - lanceolate, somewhat 

 revolute-margined, parallel-nerved, the floral 

 much shorter. Flowers 1-3 in a cluster, 

 short-])eclicelled^ forming long, slender ra- 

 cemes, pinkish-white; akene ovate, glossy 



— August and September — Akher Dagh. " 



Var. restioiioi(le§, Boiss. Leaves 

 less than .001 broad; floral leaves shorter 

 than flowers — Gaiour Dagh (Amanus). 



19. P. luziiloicles, Jaub. et Spach. 5 



5 .4 to .5, glabrous; stems often creeping, (a) Leaf and sheath of Poiy- 



rooting; branches erect, striate, rigid, stiff- gonum setosum. (5) Tip of 



' -P \ T ,. ' , ' i°i ' ji nowenng branch of same. 



panicled. Leaves Imear - lanceolate, the 



lower .03 to .05 long, often .008 broad, somewhat revolute - margined, 

 parallel-nerved, the floral shorter than flower. Flowers 2-4 in a cluster, 

 with pedicel as long as ^>^r^^<?mww^, forming long, slender racemes; 

 perigonium pinkish- white; akene oblong, glossy — August and Septem- 

 ber — Akher Dagh, and northward. Seemingly only abroad-leaved, 

 loug-pedicelled variety of the last. 



20. P, Liibaiii^ Boiss. 5 .1 to .2, glabrous; new stems ascend- 

 ing or procumbent, naked below, densely leafy above. Leaves oblong- 

 elliptical, .005 to .01 long, with deciduous mucro, many-nerved at lower 

 surface, the floral longer than the flowers. Flowers flesh-covered 1-3 in 

 axils, nearly sessile or short-pedicelled, forming shorty terminal, dense^ 

 leafy spikes ; akene smooth, glossy — Summer — Alpine and subalpiue 

 Lebanon; Coelesyria; Hermon. 



Order LXXXVI. CYTIjVACE.*, Lindl. (Cytinus Family.) 



ParasitiG herhs^ loitli scaly ^ leafless sterna, monmcious or 

 dicBcious {rarely perfect) flowers,^ the ]}erigonmin more or 

 less adherent to the 1-cellecl, many-ovidecl ovary ^ the fndt a 

 many-seeded herry^ the enibryo imbedded in cellulose albumen 



— Lobes of calyx (in ours) imbricated. Anthers nnmeroitSj 

 affixed to a central column, 1-2-celled. Placentae parietal* 

 Ovules orthotropous or anatropoiis. 



CYTI\US, L. Cytinus. 



Perigonium tubular-campauulate, lobes 4-8, imbricatett in the bud, 

 Staminate floicers. Bracts 2, at base of perigonium, rarely 0. Anthers 

 8 10, sessile at tip of central column, in 1 row, connate in a head, 

 2-eelled, extrorse. Pistillate floicers. Bracts 2, near middle of ovary, 

 adnate to it, or 0. Ovary inferior,- 1-celled, with parietal placentae. 



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