. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. , inserted above the middle of tube, included,the anthers linear, fixed by their back. Ovary sessile, oblong, 3-celled,with 2 ovules in each cell ; style filiform, deciduous; stigma globular, with globular seeds — Caulescent herbs, arising fromtliick, knotted root-stocks. B. Fig. 359. .3 to .4; stem angled, naked to nearly laalf its height. Leaves nltcrnate, .04 to .08 long, .015 to .025 broad, oblong-lanceolate, short-petioled, acuti
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. , inserted above the middle of tube, included,the anthers linear, fixed by their back. Ovary sessile, oblong, 3-celled,with 2 ovules in each cell ; style filiform, deciduous; stigma globular, with globular seeds — Caulescent herbs, arising fromtliick, knotted root-stocks. B. Fig. 359. .3 to .4; stem angled, naked to nearly laalf its height. Leaves nltcrnate, .04 to .08 long, .015 to .025 broad, oblong-lanceolate, short-petioled, acutish, slightly roughened. Pedicels glabrous, 1-4-flowered, nodding, with fiowers one-third to one-foiuth as long as leaves; perigonium .01 louo^, constricted above ovarv — t f ? r -r. T *= A 1 Tr- -; -r^ ^ T ^-eaf and raceme of Polygonatum June -Amanus and Kurd Dagh. poiyanthemum. 2. ASPARAGUS, L. Asparagus. Halyun, Flowers perfect, dioecious or polygamous. Perigonium camj)an-ulate or hemispherical, G-parted. Stamens G, free, included, equal,inserted near the base of the divisions, the anthers fixed by their back,. 780 ASPAllAGACE.^. (ASPARAGUS FAMILY.) .utrorbe. Ovary o-celled, with2-X) ovules in each cell: style straight,iiliform; stigma o-lobecl. Berry succulent, 3-celled, or by abortion 1-celled. Seeds globular or triquetrous —Perennial herbs or branching-shrubs. The leaves reduced to scales, often produced into a spur orprickle at base. The sterile branches (cladodia) clustered in the axils,or rarely solitai-y. Flowers by abortion dioecious or polygamous, rarelyhermaphrodite, borne on jointed pedicels. * Cladodia clustered. 1. A. Palaestiiiii§. Baker. 2i! .6 to 1; stem flexuous; branchesspreading or reflexed. Leaves not spurred. Cladodia 3-8, stihdate, .01 long, slender, pedicels solitary, twice as long as flower; perigoniumliemisplicrkal — Spring - Jordan Valley and around Dead Sea; Jaffa. 2. A, IjOiviiei, Baker. 2f .6 to 1 or more; stem flexuous;branches sp
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