76 CRUCIFER^. (mustard FAMILY.) 



4. B, la§iocalycinum, Boiss. et Haussk. © .45 to .75, 

 sparingly hairy below. Lower-leaves lyrate, with acute, denticulate 

 lobes ; upper lanceolate, acutely dentate. Flowers long-pedicelled 

 (larger than those of Sinapis arvensis). Young pods spreading ; style 

 cylindrical — Gardens ; Aleppo. An imperfectly known species 

 {Ei'ucastrum lasioccdycinum, Boiss. et Haussl). 



* * Pods cylindrical, somewhat fiattened. Beak seed-hearing at base. 



5. B. deflexa, Boiss. .6 and taller, hispid. Lower-leaves 

 oblong-lanceolate, irregularly dentate-loled, upper linear-lanceolate, 

 denticulate or entire. Calyx woolly -canescent. Pods .05 to .06 long' 

 .0015 broad, torulose ; style thick, .002 long — May and June — 

 Buqa' and Antilebanon to Aleppo, and eastward. 



6. B. Touniefortii, Grou. © Fig. 20. 



.5, someichat 7J>«_piZZ(9s«e-7iair2/ ielow. 

 Root-leaves rosetted, runcinate-lyrate, 

 with dentate segments ; stem-leaves 

 few, small, linear, denticulate, or en- 

 tire. Pods .02 to .05 long (without Pod of Brassica Tournefortii. 

 beak), .002 broad ; beak .01 to .015 

 long, tapering — March to May — Sandy places ; maritime plain. 



7. B, adpressa, Moench. © 1 or more, simringly papillose- 

 reflexed-Tiairy below^, glabrous above. Root-leaves lyiate, segments 

 dentate ; stem-leaves few, oblong-linear, denticulate, or entire. Pods 

 rqjpressed, .005 to .01 long (without style), .001 broad ; style geniculate, 

 rarely straight, .005 long, thiclcer than pod — March to May — Fields 

 and road sides ; common. iHirschfeldia adp)ressa, Mmnch.) 



N.B. — To this genus belong B. oleracea, L., CdUbage, with its 

 many cultivated varieties, as Broccoli, Caulifloioer, Kale, and KoTil- 

 rali ; also B. Napus, L., Bapeseed with its varieties. 



20. SIXAPIS, L. Mustard. Khardal 



Scarcely distinguished from Brassica by the 3-nerved valves of 

 pods. 



* Pods with conical l)eah. 



1. S. juncea, L. © Glahrous. Lower leaver oblong-lanceolate 

 dentate sometimes lyrate, upper lanceolate-linear, entire or dentate. 

 Pods rather erect, torulose ; beak long, awl-shaped at apex ; valves 

 keeled — Spring — Jericho. Cultivated for oil. 



2. S. arveu§is, L. © Field Fig. 21. 

 Mustard. Charlock. Khardal larri. 

 .6 to 1, more or less hirsute. Leaves 

 ovate, unequally dentate, radical 

 sometimes lyrate. Pods .03 to .05 



long, .002 broad, erect, or slightly Pod of S. arvensis, type, 



spreading ; beak often as long as 



]-est of pod — Sj^ring — Fields and waste places ; common. 



Var. ^eiiuiiia. Pods as above, glabrous -- everywhere. 



