CRUCIFERiE. (MUSTABD FAMILY.) 



7. F. capreolata, L. (Fig. 13). Fig. 13. 

 Lobes of leaves flat, obtuse. Sepals ovate, 

 acute, dentate, someicliat 'broader than, and 

 half as long as white, jpurple-ti'pped corolla. 

 Bracts shorter than fruiting pedicel. 

 Fruit somewhat compressed, globular, 

 obtuse — Spring — Diffuse, climbing or 

 pendulous on hedges and walls ; maritime 

 region and coast ranges; Banias; Wadi 

 Shu'aib (Gilead). 



8. F. Thureti, Boiss. Lobes of 

 leaves minute, oblong-linear, acute. Sepals 

 ovate, repand-dentate, somewhat broader, 

 and one-half to one-third as long as dee^J 

 pinh corolla. Bracts a little shorter than 

 fruiting pedicel. Fruit ovate-globose, 

 acutish — Spring — Near Ehedin. Too 

 near F. Anatolica. 



§ 3, ACrRARI^. Flowers between .01 ayid .015 

 loriff. Fruit tubercled. 



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9. F. macrocarpa, Pari. Lobes Fig. 13. (a) Flower of Fumaria 



of leaves oblong, rather obtuse. Sepals capreolata, l, (6) One of the sepals 



lanopolate-linpar much narrower nnd ow^- somewhat enlarged, ^.c) Upper petal, 

 lanceolate imeai, rnuca nairo^ er, ana one- ^^^ j^^^^^ p^^^l^ ^^^ ^^^ of ^j^^ ig^t^^j^, 



tJm'd as long as pale-pink, gi^eemsh-tipped petals. (/) upper set of stamens with 



corolla.' Bracts about as long as erect- its spur. (^) The pistil with a-homea 



-,. -• •■• J- 1 S -i. 7 Stigma. (A) The nutlet with the bract 



spreading, fruiting pedicels. ± ruit large, subtending its pedicel, 

 globular, slightly compressed, scarcely Tceeled — Spring — Fields and rocky 

 places; maritime regions, and coast ranges. 



10. F. Jiiclalca, Boiss. Lobes of leaves oblong, acutish. 

 Sepals oblong-lanceolate, much narrower, and one-fourth as long as pale- 

 pink, purple-tipped corolla. Bracts from half as long to as long as 

 fruiting pedicels. Fruits smaller than the last, compressed, Iceeled, obtuse 

 — January to April — Hedges, and stony places; maritime plain and 

 coast ranges. Too near F. macrocarpa. 



11. F. Gaillardoti, Boiss. Lobes of leaves oblong, obtuse. 

 Sepals oblong, acute, dentate at base, as broad, and half as long as pale, 

 purple-tipped corolla. Bracts longer than erect-spreading, or somewhat 

 recurved, fruiting pedicels. Fruit globular, compressed, keeled, obtuse, 

 mucronulate — Spring — Phoenician plain, and lower regions of coast 

 ranges. 



Order VI. CKUCIFER^. (Mustard Family). 



Herhs or shnibs icith pungent, watery juice, usually al- 

 ternate leaves, and cruGiform, tetradynariwus floioers ; fruit 

 a silique, silide, indehiscent l-celled nutlet, or loment — 

 Sepals 4, generally caducous. Petals 4, hypogynous, generally 

 regular, opposite each other in pairs, their spreading limbs 

 forming a cross. Stamens 6, 2 of them shorter, and inserted 

 lower down, (rarely 4 or 2). Ovary consisting of two, coalesced 

 carpels, 2- rarely l-celled ; style and stigma entire, or 2-lobed. 



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