C8 CRUCIFEE^. (mustard FAMILY.) 



Var. runciiiata, Boiss. Glandular, with intermixture of spread- 

 ing hairs. Loicer leaves often lyrate — Nusairy Mountains. Subalpine 

 regions of Amanus, and northward. 



* * Petals livid. Perennials. 



3. H. pulinoiiarioides, Boiss. 2^ 0.30, simple or branching 

 at base, minutely glandular-woolly, with intermixture of scattered 

 bristles. Root-leaves oblong-spathulate ; stem-leaves tapering to a 

 margined petiole, or sessile, more or less clasping, triangular-oblong, 

 or oblong-lanceolate, more or less acute ; all entire or obsoletely denti- 

 culate. "Pedicels longer than calyx, recurved in fruit. Pods glabrous, 

 ^-angled, as broad as thickened pedicel, 0.10 to 0.13 long — April and 

 May — Bludan to Aleppo, Aintab, and eastward. 



4. H. §ecuncliflora, Boiss. at Sprun. 11 More or less hispid 

 with spreading bristles. Lower leaves wavy-pinnatifid ; stem-leaves 

 sessile, oblong-lanceolate, dentate at base. Racemes somewhat one- 

 sided. Pedicels shorter than calyx. Pods spreading, glabrous, or rough, 

 flattened, very long, subtorulose — Early Spring — Said by Paine to 

 have been found in Gilead and Moab ; not found by others ; perhaps 

 the following. 



5. H. peiidula, DC. If Minutely glandular-woolly, with in- 

 termixture of scattered bristles. Root-leaves runcinate-lyrate ; stem- 

 leaves sessile, triangular-lanceolate, acutely dentate. Racemes loose. 

 Pedicels shorter than calyx. Pods 0.06 to 0.08 long, 0.003 broad, terc^ 

 hirsute icith branching hairs, sub-torulose, pendulous — April to June — 

 Rocky places and woods ; Gilead and Moab, Lebanon above 1,500 m., 

 Antilebanon, plain of Damascus, and northward. 



13. IWEALCOLMIA, R. Br. 



Calyx erect, equal, or bisaccate at base. Petals clawed. Pods elon- 

 gated, terete, often tardily dehiscent, tapering into a capitate or 

 conical stigma, fonned by two connivent lamellae — Annual herbs, 

 with pink, white, or yellow flowers. 



* Calyx bisaccate. Pod soon dehiscent. Style apiculate. Stigma capitate. 



1. M. confu§a, Boiss. O.lO to 0.015, ashy stellate-puberulent. 

 Leaves small, oblong or oblong-linear, or somewhat repand. Petals 0.003 

 long, pale. Pods 0.02 long, 0.001 broad, torulose, p)uberulent ; stigma 

 truncate, bilobed — March and April — Sands along Phosnicean 

 coast 



2. in. pulcliella, DC. 0.05 to 0.10, many-stemmed, diffuse, 

 ascending, glabrous, or sparingly appressed-pubescent below.^ Leaves 

 obovate to oblong, entire, repand, or more or less sinuate-pinnatifid. 

 Petals 0.01 long, pale-pink. Pods 0.03 to O.Ol long, 0.001 broad, 

 glabrous ; stigma truncate, or bilobed — January to April — Sandy 

 places ; borders of Et-Tih, and northward along coast. 



Var. pygmsea, Post. More or less stellate-canescent below. Leaves 

 small, sinuate-toothed or pinnatijid. Flowers smaller, pale — Borders 

 of Et-Tih, and southward. {M. pyginma, Del.) 



