72 CRUCIPER^. (MUSTARD FAMILY.) 



linear', dentate, with an ascending auricle at hase ; upper leaves 'pinnate^ 

 with linear leaflets. Flowers nearly 0.01 long ; calyx spreading. Pods 

 0.09 long, 0.0015 broad, spreading, glabrous — May and June — 

 Tripoli, Buqa', and Damascus, to Aleppo, and northward, and east- 

 ward. 



Var. rigidulum, Boiss. SallhJi. 0.l5 to 0.20. Lobes of upper 



jeaves short — Sinai, and perhaps Et-Tih. 



8. S. ery§iinoide§, Desf. Thuwwdt. 0.15 to 0.30, nearly 

 glabrous. Leaves runcinate-pinnatifid, lobes oNong, dentate, not auri- 

 ded at dase Flowers 0.002 long ; calyx somewhat spreading. Pods 

 0.02 to 0.035 long, 0.001 broad, horizontal, glabrous — Spring — Jericho, 

 Ghor es Safieh, and southward. 



1 1 Fruiting pedicels somewhat lengthened, slender. Septum thin. 



9. S. Irio, L. (D 0.60, glabrous. Leaves runcinate-pinnatisect ; 

 lobes oblong-lanceolate, toothed, not auricled. Flowers 0.003 long. 

 Pods 0.05 long, 0.001 broad, erect-spreading, four to Jive times as long 

 as pedicels — March to June — Road sides and waste places ; every- 

 where. 



10. S. Damasceiium, Boiss. et Gaill. d) 0.40 to 0.60, hirsute, 

 with spreading and retrose hairs. Lower leaves lyrate-runcinate ; lobes 

 somewhat dentate, the lower minutely auricled at loicer edge. Flowers 

 0.005 long. Pods 0(05 to 0.06 long, erect spreading, six to eight times 

 as long as pedicel — May and June — Subalpine Lebanon; Wadi el Qarn, . 

 Antilebanon ; Damascus. 



11. S. L«aeselii, L. d) 0.40, hirsute with spreading and retrorse 

 hairs, or glabrescent. Leaves runcinate ; lobes oblong-lanceolate or 

 linear, acutely cut or dentate, not auricled. Flowers 0.014 long, showy. 

 Pods somewhat curved, nearly erect, thrice as long as slender pedicel ; 

 stigma Uhbed — May and June — Aintab and northward, and east- 

 ward. 



***** Flowers 0.003 long, yellow. Pods awl-shaped. Septum thin. 



12. S. officinale, L. © 0.40, retrorsely hairy, or glabrescent. 

 Leaves runcinate ; lobes 2-6 pairs, those of lower leaves ovate-oblong, 

 the terminal truncate, those of upper linear lanceolate. Pods 0.015 

 long, 0.0015 broad at base, appressed to stem — Spring — Waste 

 places ; everywhere. 



****** Flowers 0.002 long, cream-colored, bracteate. Pods terete. 



Septum spongy, 



13. S. ruiicinatum, Lag. 0.30, nearly glabrous. Leaves 

 acutely runcinate dentate. Flowers solitary. Pods hardly 0.02 long, 

 0.0014 broad, somewhat incurved — April to June — Et-Tih to Haui'an, 

 Damascus, Aleppo, and northward. 



Var. Tillosuni, Boiss. Pubescent throughout — Jebel Qaisun, 

 Damascus. 



