88 CRUCIPERiE. (mustard FAMILY.) 



long, reticulate pods ; style half as long as iwdL — Spring — Fields ; 

 Beirut. 



2. C, Iiispicla, Boiss. Patulous-hispid. Leaves dentate or 

 repand. Fruiting racemes .15 to .25, loose. Pedicels spreading, once 

 and a half to twice as long as glabrous, margined, .003 long pods ; style 

 as long as 'pod^ or longer — Spring — Fields ; Ba'albek to Palmyra, 

 and northward, and eastward. 



Var. la§iocari)a, Post, Pods hispid. Style longer than pod — 

 Qaldun to Aintab, and eastward. {G. lasiocarpa^ Boiss. et Bal.) 



* Pods linear. Seeds in 1 row. 



3, C. aiiomala, Boiss. et Haussk. Scabrous below with 

 patulous stellate hairs. Stem much branched. Leaves nearly entire. 

 Fruiting racemes long. Pedicels one-third as long as linear-cylindrical 

 .01 to .015 long, .0015 broad pod ; style thrice as long as l>readth of pod 

 — Spring — Fields near Hharran, northern Syria. 



36 (a). CHRYSOCHAMEI.A, Boiss. 



Calyx equal at base. Petals entire. Filaments free toothless. 

 Silicic elliptical to ovate, turgid, valves somewhat keeled, 1 -nerved — 

 Dwarf yellow-flowered annuals, with sagittate-auriculate leaves, and 

 zigzag fruiting racemes. 



C. Telulina, DC. .08 to .15, canescent with branching b airs. 

 Root-leav9s oblong-lanceolate, dentate to pinnatipartite. Silicle .003 

 to .004 long ; pedicel capillary, twice or thrice as long as pod ; style 

 short — Spring — Hills about Aleppo. 



37. CAPSELL.A, L. 



Calyx equal at base. Petals obovate, entire. Filaments toothless. 

 Silicles trianguiar-obcordate or ovate ; valves boat-shaped, wingless ; 

 cells many-seeded — Annual herbs with resetted -p 



root-leaves, and white flowers. ^^* 



1. C. bwrsa-pastori§, L. Shepherd's 

 Purse. .3 to .4, glabrous, or hispid with forked or 

 simple hairs. Root-leaves entire, repand, or runci- 

 nate-pinnatifid ; stem-leaves oblong-lanceolate, 

 auricled. Silicles triangular-olcordate — February 

 to August — Roadsides everywhere. 



2. C. procumbens, L. Dwarf. Leaves ^^^ ^^ capseiia 

 pinnatipartite into elliptical or lanceolate lobes, or bursa-pastoris magni- 

 undivided. Silicles ovate, oMuse or subtruncate — fied two diameters. 

 May - Valley of Hasrun, Lebanon. Philistine on^eVSvl reTovrd S 



coast. Jericho. show seeds, 



38. EEPIDIUM, L. Pepperwort. Pepper-grass. 



Calyx equal at base. Petals entire. Stamens 4 or 3, toothless, 

 free. Silicles flattened, orbicular, ovate, or elliptical, 2-celled, dehis- 

 cent ; valves wingless or winged ; cells 1-2-ovuled — Herbs or shrubs 

 with minute white or yellowish flowers. 



