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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own-like or 0.Akenes obovate-compressedAkenes of the rays triquetrous, of the disk turbinateAkenes curved, ring-like or inflated -Akenes 3-winged, 3-angled, tipped with a wing.Receptacle chaffy.Pappus crown-like.Akenes uniform, turbinate, not wingedAkenes of rays triquetrous, 2-wingedPappus 0.Akenes tubercled, truncate at tip, hairyAkenes tapering at base, broad at tipAkenes obovate,rounded at tip, 3-ribbed at face.Receptacle hirsute. Pappus hairy or 0.Receptacle bristly. Pappus of pales or bristles.Pappus composed only of pales - . -Pappus composed of bristles and pales.Tip of akene marked by 3 groovesTip of akene marked by 1 groove55 Senecio SolidagoInulaTussilagoLeyssera Pulicaria Francoeria Eellis 43 2 154114 18 19 Chrysanthemum 36 Calendula Tripteris 44 46 AsteriscusPallenis 33 33 EcliptaAchillaea 3831 OrmenisDoronicum 3543 Amberboa 70 ZoegeaCentaurea 71 73 410 COMPOSITuE. (composite PAMILlf.) Suborder II. LIGUIjIFIiOR^. Flowerets all ligulate (strap-shaped), perfect, Fig. 233. *
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(a) A compound flower of Cichorium, belonging to the Liguliflorae, wide open, showingthat all the flowerets are strap-shaped, (b) Another of the same before opening showing theinvolucre, (c) A compound flower laid open to show the involucre and strap-shapedflowerets with their exserted, syngenesious anthers, and bifid styles. * Receptacle chaffy. Pappus crown-like ; border cremate, muticous, o* 2-awned Scolymus Pappus plumose ------ Hypochseris Pappus hairy ; akenes beaked - . . Rodigia * * Receptacle hristly or hairy. Pappus chaffy Catenanche Pappus hairy or bristly Lagoseris * * * Receptacle bristly, sometimes chaffy at margin. Pappus of scabrous bristles, plumose at base - Andryala * * * * Receptacle naked.Pappus of pales, or pales and bristles, or cup-like, not plumose. Akenes obovate or ob-pyramidal - - Cichorium 80100 91 8196 99 82 COMPOSITE (composite FAMILY.) Akenes compressed or angular-cylindrical - HyoserisAkenes teretish ; pappus of outer cup-like, of inner awned pales Hed

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