74 CRUCIFER^. (MUSTARD FAMILY.; 



Var. rigidum, Boiss. Low rigid. Pods somewhat thicker — 

 Same range as type. 



2. E, tenellum, DC. Low, green, stem branching. Leaves 

 linear, long, repand-dentate. Flowers (size of E. Helveticum) nearly 

 sessile. Pods canescent ; stigma with long divergent lobes — Spring — 

 Between Aleppo and Mosul. 



* * Biennials. Flowers yellow. Pods ^-angled, or terete. 

 t Pods ^-angled, 



3. E. Smyrnseum, Boiss. et Bal. @ Green, stems leafy, 'pani- 

 culate atove. Lower leaves oblong, runcinate, or dentate ; upper linear, 

 dentate or entire. Pedicels a little shorter than calyx. Flowers about 

 .01 long. Pods .04 to .08 long, erect-spreading, clothed with Hpar- 

 tite intermixed with a few branching hairs, tapering into a style nearly as 

 long as their breadth ; stigma truncate — Spring — Kasheiyah. 



4. E, verrucosum, Boiss. et Gaill. (D .4, greenish ; stems 

 angular-striate, leafy, branching at base and apex. Leaves oblong, ob- 

 tuse, repand-dentate^ tapering at base. Flowers .01 long ; pedicel 

 half as long as calyx. Pods .04 to .05 long, erect-spreading, thick, 

 rigid, rough with 2-d-4:-branching wool, and warts ; stigma sessile, trun- 

 cate — Spring — Western slopes of Antilebanon. 



Var. leptocarpum, Boiss. Pods more slender, with less promi- 

 nent warts — Amanus to Aintab and Marash, and northward. 



5. E. scabrum, DC. @ .2 to .8, canescent, branching 

 from base ; stems simple, erect. Koot-leaves oblong, subdentate, 

 tapering into a petiole ; stem-leaves linear-lanceolate, acute, denticu- 

 late, or entire. Flowers .008 long. Pods .02 to .03 long, .OOlo 

 broad, erect, or somewhat spreading, minutely tubercled, and pubescent ; 

 style filiform, . 002 long — Summer — Mountains of Gilead ; Lebanon 

 1,000 to 3,000 ; Amanus. 



Yar. adpressnm. Pods appressed to stem, slender — Mountain 

 above el Me'^isir, Lebanon. Gesbel Dagh, Amanus. 



1 1 Pods terete, obscurely Arangled. 



6. E. goniocaulon, Boiss. (D .2 to .7, greenish ; hairs of 

 stem and branches bipartite, of leaves usually stellate. Several-stem- 

 med from neck ; stems simple or paniculate, acutely angled. Root 

 leaves tapering to a long petiole, oblong, or lanceolate, denticulate, or 

 entire. Flowers .01 long ; pedicel shorter than calyx. Pods .025 

 to .04 long, .0015 broad, terete sub-quadrangular, curved or twisted, 

 densehj stellate-woolly ; style slender, .001 to .002 long — April to 

 June — Rocky places ; Lebanon above 1,200, Cassius, Amanus, and 

 northward. 



Var. brachycarpum, Boiss. Robust. Pods .012 to .02 long, 

 more 4-aDgled than in type — Fim-ul-Miz^b ; Cassius. 



