CRUCIFER^. (mustard FAMILY.) 



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65. CAK1L.E, L. Cakile. 



Calyx bigibbous at base. Petals obovate, Fig. 51. 



clawed. Filaments free, toothless. Lomeuts 

 with 2 joints ; the lower shorter, top-shaped, 

 truncate at apex ; the upper (in ours) ensiform ; 

 both 1-celled, 1-seeded ; stigma sessile — Annual, 

 fleshy, glabrous, maritime herbs, with dentate, 

 pinnate, or rarely entire leaves, and pale or pink 

 floAvers. 



C. niaritiina, Scop. Sea-Rocket. .25. 

 Leaves pinnatifid, with linear, obtuse lobes. ^°^' ""{^-^ aurVcS. ^'"'^' 

 Lower joint nsually ''Z-toothed at a^ex — Early 

 summer — Sands of coast. 



of pod 

 Beiri:it. 



with lateral auricles 



Var. auriciilata. Lower joint 

 or harbs below their middle (Fig. 51 ) — 



Var. iiitegrifolia, Boiss. Leaves oblong, entire or sinuate den- 

 tate — Beirut. 



66. EXARTHROCARPUS. Labill. Enarthrocarpus. 



Calyx equal at base. Petals oblong, clawed. Filaments free, tooth- 

 less. Loments elongated, terete or flattened, indehiscent ; lower joint 

 short, with 1 -3 cells, each with one pendulous seed, or seedless ; ui)per 

 joint oo-celled, often constricted, each cell with 1 erect seed — Annual 

 branching herbs, with aspect of liajyhanus, lower leaves lyrate, upper 

 small, dentate ; flowers yellowish-purple, veiny. 



1. E. arcuatu§, Labill. .3 to .5, scabrous-puberulent. Lower 

 pedicels Ir acted; loments .06 to .1 long, appressed-scabrous, terete^ torw- 

 lose, curved ; beak short, straight, thick ; lower joint short or none, 

 1-or 0-seeded — Spring — Seacoast of Syria, and lower mountain 

 regions. 



2. E. lyratu§, Forsk. Abu-Qarn. 

 lose-hairy. Pedicels nearly all bracted; 

 loments .04 to .05 long, appressed 

 scabrous, slightly flattened and cur- 

 ved, obsoletely torulose, ribbed and 

 grooved lengthicise ; beak short, 

 straight, slejider ; lower joint elon- 

 gated^ 2-3-seeded ^- Spring — Ras 

 Beirut ; probably adveutive from 

 Egypt. Jericho to Bir-es-Saba', 

 Gaza, and southward. 



S. E. §trangu]atu9, Boiss. 

 Shilwat. Yasanid . 3 to .6, more 

 or less hispid, especially below. 

 Pedicels nearly all bracted. Lo- 

 ments .03 to .04 long, appressed 

 scabrous, especially at margins, 

 flattened, Jceeled, curved, torulose, 

 striate ; beak lojig, often hooked; 



.3 to 1, sparingly jDapil- 

 FiG. 53. 



Leaf and loment of E. strangulatus. 



