Page 85. After A. macrostylum. A. mmutum, Schlecht. 

 .05 to .1, hirtulous with stellate hair, branching from base. Leaves 

 minute, obovate to oblong, obtuse. Petals pale yellow, linear, retuse ; 

 fruiting racemes somewhat elongated; silicle orbicular, .003 broad, re- 

 tuse, four times as long as apiculate style ; seed with narrow membran- 

 ous margin — April. 



Yar. conclen§atunij Post. Fruiting raceme short, forming an 

 almost globular head — Hassan Belyley Pass (Amanus). 



Page ^Q. After A. Damascenum. A. dasycarpum, Steph. 

 .1, branching from base. Leaves entire, obovate, obtuse or acutish. 

 Racemes dense ; sepals at length deciduous; petals nearly linear; silicles 

 elliptical to orbicular, convex, about as long as style: seeds wingless 

 — Spring — Tiberias; Palmyrene Desert. 



Page 86. Before A. aureum. A. homolocarpum, F. and M. 



.05 to. 13, grey, branching from base. Leaves lanceolate. Flowers 

 minute; petals spathulate-cuneate, yellow, shorter than calyx; fruiting 

 raceme. 03 long; silicles longer than spreading pedicel, orbicular, .004 

 broad, scarcely inflated, five times as long as filiform style; seeds with 

 narrow margin — Spring — Sinai. 



Page 87. Before C. saliva. C. sylvestrii, Wallr. 0.3 to 

 .5, appressed-strigulose. Leaves entire or denticulate. Fruiting ra- 

 cemes .2 to .3 long, loose; pedicels spreading, twice to thrice as long 

 as pyriform, .006 long, punctate, margined silicle; style half as long as 

 pod — Spring — Fields; middle zone of Lebanon and Antilebanon to 

 Aintab, and northward. 



Page 88. After C. Bursa-Pastoris. Var. ixiiiiuta, Post. Pods 

 .0025 long. Leaves linear — Mukhtarah (Lebanon). 



Page 94. Before C. oxyceras. C. AmaHi, Post (Plantse Postianae, 

 V, 2). @ .1, green; stems 2-3 from neck. Lower leaves repand, pe- 

 tioled, obovate-oblong ; cauline oblong, obtusely auricled, clasping. 

 Raceme .03 long in fruit; flowers * * =^, silicles obtriangular-obcordate, 

 with moderately diverging horns, and style as long as sinus — July — 

 Moist woods ; Amanus. 



Page 95. After IBERI§. 



* Leaves entire or nearly so. Flowers, radiating. Perennials. 



1. I. §empervireiis, 5 -^ ^^ -^5 branches ascending, naked 

 below, leafy above. Leaves oblong-linear, obtuse, glabrous. Flowers 

 white; silicles in a short raceme, ovate, with acute sinus and lobes; 

 style longer than sinus — 3Iay and June — Aintab ? 



Page 97. Before ISATI8. 



^AMERARIA, Desv. Sameraria. 



Calyx equal at base. Petals oblong-spathulate, clawed. Stamens 

 free, toothless. Silicle indehiscent, coriaceous or chartaceous, not 

 fungous, cordate at base, surrounded by a broad, membranous 

 wing, the cell coriaceous or membranous, keeled at back on either 

 side or furnished with wings shorter and narrower than cell. Style 

 filiform. Seed 1, pendulous. Cotyledons incumbent — Annual, glau- 

 cous herbs, with entire, oblong, cordate-clasping stem-leaves, bractless 

 racemes, deflexed fruiting pedicels, and pale yellow flowers. 



