. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. 005 long, .002 broad, as long as calyx;calyx not doited — Summer — Amanus, andnorthward. Var. laxiiin, Post. Spikes loose, bractsnarrow, green, spreading, longer than calyx —Aintab. Perhaps a mere monstrosity. 4. O. ElircBibcrgii,Boiss. If .5 , sparingly hairy below,glabrous, pale green above; stems simple, wandlike. Leaves glandu-lar-dotted, ovate, obtuse, .01 to .015 long, the lower short-petioled, theupper sessile. Spikes nearly sessile, somewhat remote, axillary
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. 005 long, .002 broad, as long as calyx;calyx not doited — Summer — Amanus, andnorthward. Var. laxiiin, Post. Spikes loose, bractsnarrow, green, spreading, longer than calyx —Aintab. Perhaps a mere monstrosity. 4. O. ElircBibcrgii,Boiss. If .5 , sparingly hairy below,glabrous, pale green above; stems simple, wandlike. Leaves glandu-lar-dotted, ovate, obtuse, .01 to .015 long, the lower short-petioled, theupper sessile. Spikes nearly sessile, somewhat remote, axillary, loose,forming a long thyrsus; hvacts olovate to oblong-spathulate, glandular-dotted; calyx glabrous or hirsute, glandular-dotted—Summer—Mid-dle to subalpine Lebanon. 5. O. ©ayi, Post. (Bull. Herb. Boiss. I. 405.) % A to .8, cov-ered everyvihere icith sessile glands, glutinous, sparingly hairy, shrubbybelow; stems numerous, simple or sparingly branched; branches cordate-ovate, spreading, at length deflexed, .005 to .01 long andbroad, prominently nerved. Spikes short-peduncled, .02 to .03 long,. LABIATE, (mint family.) .005 broad, flowering toward apex, loose, racemed alongbrancliesfromloioer third up in a loose thyrsus .03 to .04broad; bracts prominently veined, ovate-orbicular, cor-date or cuneate at base, mucronate, a little more thanhalf as long calyx; calyx-tube once and a half as longas lanceolate teeth; corolla white, nearly twice as longas calyx; stamens loug-exserted, nearly twice as long ascorolla — Summer — Sunny hill-sides on the eastern de-clivity of the Judaean plateau between Hebron andZuweirat-el-Foqa. Spike of Origanum Dayi. 6. O. vulgarCj L. If Marjoram. .5 to .8 or more, more orless hirsute. Leaves petioled, ovate to oblong, repand, .01 to . Spikes dense, .01 to .015 long, .004 to .005 broad, cylindricalto prismatic, more or less panicled or corymbed; bracts generally col-ored, glandular-dotted, ovate-elliptical, acute; c
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