bli; 7 ete 
Eurotia ceratoides C. A. M. A chamaephyte, suffrutex. 
It has a single large main-root with horizontal lateral roots, 
bearing many woody stems; these are nearly always flat, 
firmly fasciated, and on top bear living and dead twigs. The 
tuft can attain a diameter of 120 cm, when they are so large, 
the centre is generally dead. The tufts have been figured 
by SCHIMPER fig. 453, p. 791. The leaves are lanceolate 
about 1 cm long, stellate-hairy with revolute edges. The 
plant is 15—20 cm tall. Flowers inconspicuous. (Fig 18). 
Solenanthus stylosus (Kar. Kir.) Lipsky, (Lindelofia stylosa). 
A hemicryptophyte, forming tufts, without centrifugal growth 
but surrounded by many withered leaves. The ground leaves 
‚are about 10—20 cm long, lanceolate, snicate and velvety- 
hairy. The stem-leaves are narrow, and about 5 cm long. 
The flowers, dark-purple, are at the utmost 50 cm above the 
ground. 
Astragalus lasiosemius Bois. A suffrutescent chamaephyte, 
with a single thick main-root bearing large tufts (one speci- 
men was 90 cm in diameter, another 65 cm long, 35 broad), 
often dead in the centre; the leaves are pinnate with 3 
pairs densely sericeous leaflets, 5 mm long. The rachis 
remains upright like a long pointed thorn. (Fig. 19). Rich flores- 
cence of yellow blossoms, not more than 10 cm above the ground. 
Serratula procumbens Rgl. A hemicryptophyte with pro- 
cumbent herbaceous branches of which the older part is 
covered with remnants of leaves. The leaves are 4—7 cm 
long, lanceolate-elliptic, glabrous. The great red heads blos- 
som in August. 
Artemisia (herba alba Asso?) A suffrutescent chamae- 
phyte, having a single vertical root with many lateral roots. 
The branches diverge on all sides and upwards, and may 
form great plates, about 1 métre in diameter. The leaves are 
bipinnatisect and sericeous. The small yellow flowers blossom 
in early September. 
Stipa orientalis Trin. A hemicryptophyte forming close 
tufts, which, when old, often wither in the centre and form 
rings, up to 10 cm in diameter. It is very tunicate. The 
filiform leaves are up to 8 cm long; the straw up to 20 cm. 
In addition to these species found almost everywhere on 
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