GO = 
rosette-plants with long, narrow more or less villose leaves 
and yellow flowers which are not more than 8 cm above 
the ground. 
Lappula stricta (Ldb.) Gürke. A therophyte 10—15 cm 
tall or, as it has a ground-rosette of dead leaves, perhaps 
better determined as a biennial hemicryptophyte. The leaves 
Fig. 21. Oaytropis Poncinsii. Frch. (ab. '/2). Flowers on the left side. 
are narrow and hirsute, flowers small and blue. The fruit 
has hong-looked thorns. 
Nepeta daénensis Bois. A therophyte, 5—10 cm tall, 
slender, upright and for the most part without ramifications, 
with 2—3 pairs of almost smooth, linear, or linear-lanceolate 
leaves. Small red flowers. It grows in crevices or similar 
localities, never, or very rarely, on the flat, arid plain. (Fig. 22). 
Polygonum molliaeforme Bois. A therophyte with delicate 
filiform decumbent stems, and 3—4 mm long, smooth, linear 
