Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai - from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert (1896) (14597962580)

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



Text Appearing Before Image:
iate, 1-celled. Style bifid at tip. Capsule4- or by abortion 2-seeded — Perennial herbs with aspect of Morina. B. ecluli§, Forsk. 2f ShauTc-ed-Dibl). .3 to .4, minutely roughen-ed and ciliated, glaucous, the neck bearing 1-several, 1-3-branched,thickened stems. Root-leaves soon disappearing, entire, with spinymargins, those of branches at base of spikes oblong to lanceolate,spiny-dentate. Spikes at length elongated, 4-ranked, the terminal ses-sile, the lateral short-peduncled ; bract indurated, lanceolate, pro-minently nerved and grooved, spreading, with 3-5 lateral spines oneach side, and a long-spiny tip, longer than flowers ; bracteoles shorter,linear-subulate, villous ; outer calyx-lobes oblong, the upper longer,3-dentate, the lower 2-dentate, the lateral one-foiu:th their length, ob-long ; corolla bluish, 3-lobed, with a small tooth on each side; capsuleflattened-ovate, tapering, .01 long-—Si3ring—Valleys about DeadSea, and southward to Sinai and Egypt. Fig. 271. Fig. 272.
Text Appearing After Image:
Calyx of B. edulis. Corolla and stamens of B. edulis. 2. ACA^THC§5 L. Acanthus. Shauk-el-Jamdl. Calyx 4-parted, the uppier and lower sepals exterior, broad, elon-gated, veined, the lateral interior, small, obovate or orbicular. Corolla-tube annular, short, cartilaginous, limb tapering at base, split above,expanded into a broad, obovate, flat, 3-lobed limb. Stamens insertedat throat, filaments thick, rigid, somewhat incurved at tip ; anthers 1-celled, bearded lengthwise. Style short-bifid. Capsule 2-celled, ob-long, coriaceous, glossy, 4-seeded from base to middle — Perennialherbs, with aspect of Morina, the flowers in a dense, thick, spiny-bracted spike. A, Syriacns, Boiss. If Mar ^awila. Mis. Shauh-el-Jamal. .5 to1, puberulent; stem little produced beyond leaves. Root-leaves large,oblong-lanceolate, tapering at base to a short petiole, pinnatisect or-parted into lanceolate, spiny-margined or -lobulated lobes confluent atbase ; stem-leaves usually one pair, sessile. Spike ovate-cyl