CRUCIFERJS. (MUSTARD FAMILY.) 



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1. E. sativa, L. .5, more or less papillose- 

 hairy. Leaves lyrate-pinnatifid or pinnatisect into oblong, 

 dentate lobes. Beak half as long as pod or moi^e — March to 

 May — Roadsides and fields ; common. 



Var. eriocarpa. Pods scabrous with retrorse hairs 

 iE. Cappadocica, Boiss., var. eriocarpa) — Wadi el Qarn, 

 Antilebanon. 



Var. Cappadocica, Segments of leaves less toothed. 

 Pod longer, glabrous, beak one-third its length ; seeds 

 larger than in type. (E. Cappadocica, Boise.) — Be- 

 tween Hamath and Palmyra. 



Fig 



24. SAVIOXYA, DC. El-Qulaiqalah. 



Calyx erect, equal. Pod stipitate, elliptical, with chartaceous 

 valves ; septum with 2 layers. Stigma simple. Seeds in 2 rows* 

 winged, with half-adnate funicles — Viscid, glabrous, or sparingly 

 hairy divaricately branched, desert herbs, with small pale pink 

 flowers. 



S. iSlgyptiaca, DC. Shaldimh. 

 .Ito .15. Leaves fleshy, the lower 

 obovate-oblong, dentate, petioled ; up- 

 per linear, pinnatifid, or entire. Pods 

 on flliform, spreading pedicels twice 

 their length ; style apiculate — Feb- 

 ruary to April — Et-Tih and south- 

 ward. 



Fig. 25. 



Pod of Savignya iEgyptiaca. 



25. CARRICHTERA, DC. 



Calyx erect, equal at base. Petals clawed, entire. Pod globular- 

 ovate ; style flattened, spoon-shaped, ovate, leaflike ; cells 4-ovuled 

 — Dwarf annuals, with small cream-colored, violet-veined petals. 



.1 to .3, glabrous, or slightly hairy, dichoto- 



C. vellaB, DC. 



mous from base. Leaves bipinnatisect into linear lobes 

 May — Aleppo to Moab, Jerusalem, Et-Tih, and southward 

 ward. 



March to 

 and east- 



26. RICOTIA, L. 



Calyx bisaccate. Petals clawed, obcordate or retuse. Fruit a 

 flat lenticular or elliptical silicle, 1-celled by disappearance of thin 

 septum, or a linear 2-celled silique with papyraceous septum. Seeds 

 in 1 row, flattened, wingless — Annual, sparingly hairy herbs, with 

 pink or white flowers, and recurved fruiting pedicels. 



