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CRUCIFERiE. (mustard FAMILY.) 



1 1 Flowers yellow. 



9. ]fl. coiirmgioide§, Boiss. 0.05 to 0.10, green, scabrous- 

 papillose ; stems simple. Root-leaves obovate-oblong, tapering at base, 

 repand^ ai' entire ; stem-leaves short aurided, acutely denticulate. Flowers 

 0.013 long. Pods 0.06 to 0.09 long, 0.0015 broad, horizontal, glab- 

 rous ; style terete, slightly bifid — April to June — Fields and rocks ; 

 Damascus, Antilebanon to 1,500, and Zahleh, to southern Palestine. 



14. EREIVIOBIIJM, Boiss. 



Calyx erect, long persistent, bisaccate. Petals linear-spathulate, 

 entire, jDinkish. Pods linear, torulose. Seeds nearly orbicular, mar- 

 gined. Cot5-ledons obliquely accumbent — Annual herbs, canescent 

 with stellate hairs, or glabrescent. 



1. E. liiieare, Del. Prostrate, or ascending, branching, 

 compact., 0.10 to 0.30. Leaves sessile, oblong, or oblong-linear, entire. 

 Racemes dense., many-flowered; flowers 0.005 long, overtopped by 

 young pods (as in Cardamine hirsuta) ; pedicels half as long as calyx, or 

 less. Fiuiting TSiceme com2Mct. Pods 0.015 long, 6.001 broad, stellate- 

 canescent, 6-18-seeded — February to May — Sandy places ; in the 

 Tih and southward. 



Fig. 18 



Fig. 18. (a) Fruiting raceme of E. lineare, Del. (b) Fruiting raceme of E. Fieldii, Post. 

 (e) Pod of E, Fieldii. 



2. E. Fieldii, Post. Prostrate, branching, straggling ; stems 

 0.10 to 0.20 long. Leaves sessile, oblong-linear, linear, or cylindrical, 

 fleshy. Racemes loose, few-flowered ; flowers 0.01 long, not overtopped 

 by i)ods ; pedicels nearly as long as calyx. Fruiting raceme elongated, 

 loose. Pods 0.015 to 0.025 long, 0.002 broad, puberulent or glabrescent, 

 4-8-seeded ; seeds ticice as broad, as in last — February to April — Sandy 

 places ; Et-Tih, and southward. 



