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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roioded. Racemes rather loose,2-4-flowered ; peduncle as long as leaf, or shorter ;calyx lohite-woolly; pods oblong-lanceolate, .02 to .03long, .006 broad, incurved, ending in a short, straight,or somewhat incurved j^oint, densely white-woolly,back broad-grooved, face keeled, netted-wrinkledtoward margin—Spring — Et-Tih to Sinai, ^la. 141.Egypt, and southward. 29. A. Berytheiis, Boiss. et Bl. 0@ .4, white-villous, prostrate. Leaflets7-8 pairs, small, cuneate-oblong. Racemes7-8-flow^ered, somewhat capitate, pedunclenearly equalling leaf; calyx black-hairy,teeth half as long as tube; standard taper-ing, retuse; pods white-hairy, lanceolate-linear, 3-angled, .025 long, .005 broad,somewhat curved, acute, back narrow-grooved, face keeled, minutely rough-tu-bercled — Spring — Sandy fields; Beirut. 30. A. peregrinus, Vahl. 0 .2 to.4, loosely white-villous, prostrate. Leaf-lets oblong-cuneate, retuse. Racemes rather immaturTpod ofloose, 3-5-flowered, peduncle shorter than a. Berytheus
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263 LEaUMlKOS^. (PULSE FAMILY.) leaf ; calyx white- and black-hairy, teeth someT?hat shorter than tube ;standard short, acute; pods lanceolate, .04 long, .006 thick, somewhatcurved, acute, grooved at back, keeled at face, minutely rough-tu-bercled — Spring — Sandy fields ; southern Palestine. 31. A, leucopliaeus, Smith. © Procumbent, canescent. Leaf-lets 13-14 pairs, obcordate. Peduncles shorter than leaves ; podsterete, acute, glabrous — Spring — Said by Paine to be found in Moab.The above description too meagre for diagnosis, is taken from De Can-dolles Prodromus, II., 393. I have not seen the plant. 32. A. birsutissiuius, DC. 2^ .05 to .15, tomentose. Stipuleslanceolate, short-connate ; leaves .03 to .08 long, oblong, leaflets 8-12pairs, crowded, oblong. .006 to .01 long, obtuse, conduplicate. Scapesahout as long as leaves; heads dense, ovate, .03 to .04 long ; bracts lan-ceolate, nearly as long as calyx-tube ; calyx villous, teeth half as longas tube ; pod densely long-hi

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