. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. ms thick, often warty, simple or sparinglybranched. Leaves fleshy^ cuneate at base, ovate to rhombic, acute,angled or toothed-lobed, rarely entire, the lower petioled, blade .1 ormore long, the upper sessile ; the floral oblong-lenticular. Corollawhite^ icith violet sjMs, .02 long, tube somewhat exserted, limb ir-regularly split; fruiting calyx .04 long, .015 broad, with broad,triangular, muticous teeth, about one-sixth as long as tube— Spring —Palmyreue Desert ; Wilder
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. ms thick, often warty, simple or sparinglybranched. Leaves fleshy^ cuneate at base, ovate to rhombic, acute,angled or toothed-lobed, rarely entire, the lower petioled, blade .1 ormore long, the upper sessile ; the floral oblong-lenticular. Corollawhite^ icith violet sjMs, .02 long, tube somewhat exserted, limb ir-regularly split; fruiting calyx .04 long, .015 broad, with broad,triangular, muticous teeth, about one-sixth as long as tube— Spring —Palmyreue Desert ; Wilderness of Judea, and southward to Sinai, andEgypt. 2. H. pu§illus, L. 0 Sufeird. .05 to .3, crisp papillose-pubes-cent ; stem erect, simple or branching from neck. Leaves oblong tooblong-lanceolate, acute, entire, sinuate-repand to pinnatifid and piu-natipartite. Corolla .015 to .02 long, yellow with purplish throat, in-cluded tube, and oblique limb icith nearly equal lobes; fruiting long, .006 broad, with triangular, prickly-pointed teeth, aboutone-fourth as long as tube —March to June —Hauran ; SCROPHULARIACE^. (FIGWORT FAMILY). 571 3. H. reticulatu§, L. 0 (D .4 to .5, Fig. 262. villous with cobwebby hairs ; stem stout, erect,branching from neck or above. Leaves ob-long to lanceolate, more or less pinnatifid topinnatipartite, the radical petioled, the cau-line sessile but not clasjnng, the floral entire,longer than flower. Corolla nearly regular^.025 long, purplish-violet, reticulate, withrounded lobes one-fourth as long as tube ;fruiting calyx .025 long, .01 broad, not con-tracted above middle, with recurved, lanceo-late, pricUy-pointed teeth, about half as long piower of H. tube — Spring — Fields ; common. Var. iiitegrifoliu§, Boiss. Leaves sinuate, iiTegularly toothedor entire — Coeiesyria ; Antilebauon ; Gilead ; Hems ; Aintab. 4. M. albus, L. % .3 to .6, villous-mscid; stems erect, branch-ing. Leaves petioled, ovate-orbicul
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