P:UPHORUlACEiE. (spURGE FAMILY.) 733 



sale oblate-ovate, .002 long, 3-grooved, carpels rounded — February to 

 :\Iay — Fields; common. 



Var. fossulata, Boiss, Smaller; grooves of seed of same color 

 :is seed — Damascus. 



27. E. Pcpllis, L. MaHaqdh. Wudeinah. Suhun-fjlieit. .2 

 to .3, glabrous, branching, erect. Leaves tender, entire, petioled, 

 "Jiovate. .005 to .035 long, obtuse or retuse. Rays of umbel 3, several 

 times forked; horns much longer than breadth of glands; capsules 

 ovate, .0015 long, deeply 3-grooved, carpels compressed, with ttco 

 /ring-like l-eels — Spring and summer — Fields and road-sides, every- 

 Avhere. 



2S. E. peploiflc§, Gou. would appear to be a more round- 

 leaved variety of the last, with almost no style, and a smaller seed, 

 with fewer pits — Common. 



29. E. Cliamsepeplus, Boiss. et Gaill. .05 to .15, gla- 

 brous, erect, branching from base. Leaves sessile or short-petioled, 

 obovate to elliptical, .005 to .01 long, obtuse or retuse. Rays of umbel 

 3, short, bifid : floral leaves oblong ; horns slender, somewhat longer 

 than breadth of glands; capsule ovate, .0015 long, carpels rounded 



. — Spring — Jerusalem ; Damascus ; Antilebanon j^lateau ; Dead Sea. 



Var. §iiiaica, Boiss. Pits of obscurely hexagonal seed irregu- 

 larly arranged — Sinai ; Jericho. 



30. E. ISzoYit§ii, F. etM. .05 to .15, glabrous, glauccscent; 

 stem dividing almost from lase in a 3-5-rayed, much-forked umbel. 

 Leaves somewhat fleshy, entire, cuneate-linear, .01 to .03 long, .001 to 

 .003 broad at tip, those of forks of ten falcate. Glands transversely ob- 

 long, truncate, usually short-two-horned; capsule ovate, .0015 long, 

 carpels keeled — May and June — Fields and stony places; Ccelesyria to 

 Aleppo, Aintdb, and northward. 



31. E. Rcuteriana, Boiss. .3 to .4, glabrous, glauccscent; 

 stem erect, nearly simple. Lowest leaves minute, olcordate, the others 

 linear^ .01 to .03 long, obtuse or retuse, mucronulate, the uppermost 

 acute. Rays of umbel 3-5, several times forked ; floral leaves short- 

 cuneate at base, hroader than long, reniform, xenj obtuse, mucronulate ; 

 horns longer than breadth of glands; capsule ovate, .003 to .004 long, 

 carpels rounded — May and June — Fields ; coast, and lower mountains, 

 and interior plains. 



32. E. piisillima, Post. (Bull. Herb. Boissier IIL 103.) .03 

 to .06, glabrous; stem simple, leaf}^ Leaves entire, green at upper 

 surface, reddish-jmrple at lower, the ]o\vest short-petioled, the upper 

 sessile, all cuneate-ohovate, .005 to .008 long, truncate or slightly retuse. 

 Rays of umbel 3-5, about as long as urabellar leaves, not forked, floral 

 leaves obliquely ovate, very obtuse; glands semilunar, purple, horns as 

 long as breadth of gland; capsule * * — April — Gravelly soil on lava 

 at base of Kurd Dagh, near Tcheftalik. 



33. E. obovata, Dec. 1^ .3, glabrous, glaucous ; stems 

 decumbent or ascending from a vertical, woody root-stock, branching 

 above, the branches and 3-5 rays of umbel several times forked. 



