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CRUCIFER^. (xMUSTARD FAMILY.) 



style terete, slightly bifid — April to June — Fields and rocks ; Damascus, 

 Antilebanon to 1,500 m., and Zahleh, to southern Palestine. 



14. EREjWrOBIUH, Boiss. GhuleisM. 



Calyx erect, long-persistent, bisaccate. Petals linear-spathulate, 

 entire, pinkish. Pods linear, torulose. Seeds nearly orbicular, mar- 

 gined. Cotyledons obliquely accumbent — Annual hei-bs, canescent 

 •with stellate hairs, or glabrescent. A genus doubtfully distinguished 

 from Malcolmia, which it strongly resembles in habit. 



1. E. JEgyptiacum, Spreng. .1 to .3, prostrate, or ascend- 

 ing, branching, com2)act. Leaves sessile, oblong, to oblong-linear, entire. 

 Racemes derise, many-Jiowered ; flowers .005 long, overtopped by young 

 pods (as in Cardamine hirsuta); pedicels half as long as calyx, or less ; 

 fruiting raceme compact; pods .015 long, .001 broad, stellate-canescent, 

 6-18-seeded — February to May — Sandy places; et-Tih and south- 

 ward, and westward to Egypt. Too near Malcolmia confusa^ Boiss. 



Fig. 18 



Fig. 18. (a) Fruiting raceme of E. -^gyptiacum, Spreng. (6) Fruiting raceme of E. 

 lineare, Del. (e) Mature pod of tlie same. 



2. E. lineare, Del. Samik. Qdbdh. .1 to .2, prostrate, branch- 

 ing, straggling. Leaves sessile, oblong -linear^ linear, or cylindrical, fleshy. 

 Racemes loose, few-floicered ; flowers .008 to .01 long, not overiopiJcd ly 

 pods ; pedicels nearly as long as calyx ; fruiting raceme elongated, loose ; pods 

 ,015 to .025 long, .002 broad, puberulent ot glabrescent, 4-8-seeded ; 

 '^eeds twice as broad as in last — February to April — Sandy places ; 

 •et-Tih, and southward. Perhaps a variety of the last, but regarded by 

 SchweinfUrth and Ascherson, Supplement to Flora Orientalis, p. 30, 

 as a distinct species. An examination of many specimens, in the 

 deserts where they grow, leads us to confirm this opinion. 



15. SIS¥l«IBRIlJ]fI, All. Fed. Hedge-Mustahd. 



Calyx erect, or spreading, generally equal at base. Petals clawed. 

 Pods flattened or terete, 4-6-sided ; stigma capitate, or obsoletely bi- 



