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43_294 Megiddo, Palestine. stamen has been referred to. The pair next to this one stamen are shorter than the upper pair of stamens. All the stamens are inserted at or, rather, near the summit of throat. Calyx divisions nearly distinct, with a clear line or midnerve; lanceolate, hirstute. Style clearly short-hirstute, exserted, cleft at apex to the depth of one mm. Stamens: filaments decurrent on tube in relief. Cor. 26 mm. long. Achenes inserted by base to gynobase. Cor. tube and throat without scales. The longer stamens are exserted from throat. Corolla broadly funnelform. Yesterday D. H. Higgins, the geologist of the Megiddo expedition, and I were walk- |
43_295 Apr. 4, 1926. ing over the summit of the Meg-iddo 'Tell observing the plants. One individual no. 11,097 only was noted. The tell is a large roundish hill with flat top, - and rather steep sides - the diameter on top being on the average about 500 yards. It is old Armageddon. -No. 11,098. Orchis palustris [crossed out] masxula L. (?) Swamp at Megiddo. Lateral sepals turned backward like a pair of wings. Lip fan-shaped, 2-lobed and more or less unequally toothed in center. Petals and upper sepal forming a hood (erect). Flower purple. Spur thick, cylindric, a little shorter than ovary, turned upward. |
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