Identifier: floraofsyriapalest00post (find matches)
Title: Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Post, George Edward, 1838-1909
Subjects: Botany -- Syria Botany -- Palestine Botany -- Egypt Sinai
Publisher: Beirut, Syria : Syrian Protestant college
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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-cent, canescent; stem simple or branching from base. Root-leaves long-petioled, truncate or somewhat cuneate at base, ovate, blade .01 to .02long, crenate; floral leaves subsessile, cuneate-oblong, few-toothed,longer than flowers. Whorls 4-6-flowered, forming an interrupted orcontinuous leafy spike; bracts petiolulate, cuneate-flabellate, with 2-3,aristate teeth on each side; calyx .008 long, with short, nearly muti-cous, at length involute teeth; corolla blue, tube included, limb mi-nute — April — Between Qaryetein and Palmyra. 2. L<. Iberica, M. B. 0 .2 to .4, glabrescent; stem simiDle orsparingly branched. Lower leaves short-2)etioled, ovate to oblong, .02to -04 long, crenate to dentate; floral leaves sessile, oblong to linear-oblong and linear-lanceolate, denticulate, twice as long as fioicers.Whorls 4-6-flowered, loosely spiked; bracts petiolulate, cuneate-flabel-late, with 3-4, long-aristate teeth on each side; calyx .015 long, teeth labiatie. (mint family.)Fig. 399. 639
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Whorl of Lallemantia Iberica. mucronate, the uppermost obovate-spathulate, all with conical gibU atsinuses; corolla blue rarely yellowish, tube included, limb small —April and May — Fields; between Jerusalem and Jericho; Damascus;Coelesyria; Antilebanon; Aintab. 3. 1*. canescen§, L. (D .3, wooUy-canescent; stems ascendingfrom an indurated base, thick, simple. Lower leaves petioled, crenate,oblong-lanceolate; floral leaves sessile, linear^ longer than flowers.Whorls 4-6-flowered, loosely spiked; bracts small^ nearly sessile,cuneate-flabellate, with 2-3 aristate teeth on each side; calyx tomentel-lous, .015 long, teeth mucronate, the uppermost ovate-oblong; corol-la move than twice as long as calyXy blue, the tube gradually expandedinto a throat — Spring — Mountains of Northern Syria. 16. §CUTEi:.I.AIlIA, L. Skull-Cap. Calyx campauulate, bilabiate, lips entire, short, broad, closed infruit, the upper furnished with a rounded, concave scale at back, deci-duous. Corolla bilabiat

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