76 CRUCIFER^, (mustard FAMILY.) 



4. B, lasiocalycinum, Boiss. et Haussk. .45 to .75, 

 sparingly hairy below. Lower-leaves lyrate, with acute, denticulate 

 lobes ; upper lanceolate, acutely dentate. Flowers long-pedicelled 

 (larger than those of Sinapis arvensis). Young pods spreading ; style 

 cylindrical — Gardens ; Alej)po. An imperfectly known species 

 (Brucastrum lasiocalycinum, Boiss. et HaussJc). 



* * Pods cylindrical, somewhat flattened* Beah seed-hearing at dase. 



5. B. deflexa, Boiss. © .6 and taller, hispid. Lower-leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, irregularly dentate-loded, upper linear-lanceolate, 

 denticulate or entire. Calyx inoolly-canescent. Pods .05 to .06 long, 

 .0015 broad, torulose ; style thick, .002 long — May and June — 

 Buqa' and Antilebanon to Aleppo, and eastward. 



6. B. Toiirnefortii, Gou. Fig. 20. 

 .5, somewhat jja^nllose-hairy heloic. 

 Root-leaves resetted, runcinate-lyrate^ 

 with dentate segments ; stem-leaxes 

 few, small, linear, denticulate, or en- 

 tire. Pods .02 to .05 long (without Pod of Brassica Tournefortii. 

 beak), .002 broad ; beak .01 to .015 



long, tapering — March to May — Sandy places ; maritime plain. 



7. B, a<lpres§a, Moench. 1 or more, siiaringly papillose- 

 reflexed-hairy below, glabrous above. Root-leaves lyrate, segments 

 dentate ; stem-leaves few% oblong-linear, denticulate, or entire. Pods 

 appressed, .005 to .01 long (without style), .001 broad ; style geniculate, 

 rarely straight, .005 long, thicTcer tlian %>od — March to May — Fields 

 and road sides ; common, iHirschfeldia adpressa, Mmnch.') 



N.B. — To this genus belong B. oleracea, L., CaWage, with its 

 many cultivated varieties, as Broccoli, Caulifloioer, Kale, and Eohh 

 raU ; also B. Napjus, L., Rapeseed with its varieties. 



20. SOfAPIS, L. Mustard. Khardal. 



Scarcely distinguished from Brassica by the 3-nerved valves of 

 pods. 



* Pods loith coiiical heaJi^. 



1, S. juncea, L. Gkibrou^. Lower leaver oblong-lanceolate 

 dentate sometimes lyrate, uj)per lanceolate-linear, entire or dentate. 

 Pods rather erect, torulose ; beak long, awl-shaped at apex ; valves 

 keeled — Spring — Jericho. Cultivated for oil. 



2. S. arvensis, L. Field Fig. 21. 

 Mustard. Charlock. Khardal larri. 

 .6 to 1, more or less hirsute. Leaves 

 ovate, unequally dentate, radical 

 sometimes lyrate. Pods .03 to .05 



long, .002 broad, erect, or slightly Pod of S. arvensis, type, 



spreading ; beak often as long as 



rest of pod — Spring — Fields and waste places ; common. 



Var. §^eniiiiia. Pods as above, glabrous — everywhere. 



