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half, or more than half as long as style — Annual herbs, with habit of 

 Carclamine. 



A. Cardamine, R'c'h'b. © Glabrous, 0.6. Base of petiole 

 with large^ semi-orlicular auricle ; leaflets 4-5 pairs, ovate-oblong, ob- 

 tusely crenate. Pods 0.02 long, 0.003 broad — Spring — Moist places, 

 Tripoli and northward. 



10. NOTOCERAS, R. Br. 



Calyx somewhat spreading, equal at base. Petals minute, white. 

 Pods short, somewhat dehiscent ; valves keeled, honeycombed on 

 their inner face, ending in a divergent mucro, longer than style ; stigma 

 capitate — Dwarf, desert annuals, canescent with bipartite hairs. 



;N, Canarieiise, R.Br. © 0.05 to 0.10, ascending. Leaves 

 oblong-linear, tapering at base, 0.02 long. Pods 0.01 long, 0.0015 

 broad ; mucro 0.001 long — March and April — Mar Saba, Jericho, 

 and eastward, and southward. 



11. AN ASTATIC A, L. Rose op Jericho. 



Calyx erect, equal at base. Petals minute, white. Pod ovate- 

 globose, inflated, 2-celled, dehiscent. Valves with a transverse auricle 

 at apex, divided within by a transverse partition into two compart- 

 ments ; seeds solitary in each compartment, pendulous. Style awl- 

 shaped ; stigma indistinct — Dwarf, dichotomous, prostrate annuals. 

 Fruiting plant indurated, woody, with branches incurved, forming a 

 globe,- which expands again when immersed in water. Fruit persis- 

 tent. 



4. Hierocliuiitiiia, L. © Stellate-canescent. Leaves obovate, 

 repand, tapering, into a short petiole — February to May — Around 

 Dead Sea, along borders of Et-Tih, and southward. 



12. HESPERI!^, L. Rocket. 



Calyx erect, bisaccate at base. Petals clawed. Pods elongated, 

 terete, usually tardily dehiscent, sometimes breaking into irregular 

 joints. Septum with narrow, transverse areolae — Perennial, or bien- 

 nial herbs, with purple, violet, or livid flowers. 



* Flowers ijui'ple, or molet. Biennials or perennials. 



1. H. K.ot§cliyana, Fenzl. If 0.30 to 0.40. Canescent with 

 loose branching hairs. Stems nearly simple. Root-leaves oblong-lan- 

 ceolate, coarsely dentate ; stem-leaves lanceolate, acute, denticulate. 

 Petals pale violet. Pods rigid, glairous, 0.05 to 0.06 long, 0.001 broad 

 — May to July — Subalpine regions of Lebanon, and Cassius, and 

 northward, 



2. H. matronal is, L. (2) 0.80 to 1. More or less pubescent 

 with coarse, branching hairs. Stems paniculate. Leaves ovate-lanceo- 

 late, acuminate, dentate. Petals light purple. Pods erect-spreading, 

 rough, fiexuous, 0.10 long, 0.0015 broad — June and July. 



