74 CRUCIFER^. (MUSTARD FAMILY J 



Var. rigidum, Boiss. Low rigid. Pods somewhat thicker — 

 Same range as type. 



2. E, tenellum, DC. © Low, green, stem branching. Leaves 

 linear, long, repand-dentate. Flowers (size of E. Helveticum) nearly 

 sessile. Pods canescent ; stigma loith long divergent lobes — Spring — 

 Between Aleppo and Mosul. 



* * Biennials, Flowers yellow. Pods Ai-angled, or terete. 

 t Pods 4i'a7igled, 



3. E. Smyrnseum, Boiss. et Bal. @ Green, stems leafy, pani- 

 culate above. Lower leaves oblong, inincinate, or dentate : upper linear, 

 dentate or entire. Pedicels a little shorter than calyx. Flowers about 

 .01 long. Pods .04 to .08 long, erect-spreading, clothed with Upar- 

 tite intermixed icith a few hrancMng hairs, tapering into a style nearly as 

 long as their breadth ; stigma truncate — Spring — Rasheiyah. 



4. E, verrucosum, Boiss. et Gaill. <D .4, greenish ; stems 

 angular-striate, leafy, branching at base and apex. Leaves oblong, ob- 

 tuse, repand-dentate, tapering at base. Flowers .01 long ; pedicel 

 half as long as calyx. Pods .04 to .05 long, erect-spreading, thick, 

 rigid, rougfi with 2-^-4t-branchi)ig wool, and warts ; stigma sessile, t/run- 

 cute — Spring — Western slopes of Antilebanon. 



Var. leptocarpnni, Boiss. Pods more slender, icith less promi- 

 nent warts — Amanus to Aintab and Marash, and northward. 



5. E. scabrum, DC. @ .2 to .8, canescent, branching 

 from base ; stems simple, erect. Root-leaves oblong, subdentate, 

 tapering into a petiole ; stem-leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, denticu- 

 late, or entire. Flowers .008 long. Pods .02 to .03 long, .0015 

 broad, erect, or somewhat spreading, minutely tubercled, and pubescent ; 

 style /iUfo?'m, .002 long — Summer — Mountains of Gilead ; Lebanon 

 1,000 to 3,000 ; Amanus. 



Var. adpressnm. Pods appressed to stem, slender — Mountain 

 above el Me'asir, Lebanon. Gesbel Dagh, Amanus. 



1 1 Pods terete, obscurely '^-angled, 



6. E. g^oiiiocauloii, Boiss. (2) .2 to .7, greenish ; hairs of 

 stem and branches bipartite, of leaves usually stellate. Several-stem- 

 med from neck ; stems simple or paniculate, acutely angled. Root 

 leaves tapering to a long x^etiole, oblong, or lanceolate, denticulate, or 

 entire. Flowers .01 long ; pedicel shorter than calyx. Pods .025 

 to .04 long, .0015 broad, terete sub-quadrangular, curved or twisted, 

 densely stellate-iDoolly ; style slender, .001 to .002 long — April to 

 June — Rocky places ; Lebanon above 1,200, Cassius, Amanus, and 

 northward. 



Var. brachycarpiiin, Boiss. Robust. Pods .012 to .02 long, 

 more 4-anglecl than in type — Fim-ul-Mizab ; Cassius. 



