CRUCIFERiE. (MUSTARD FAMILY.) 



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I.E. §ativa, L. .5, more or less papillose- 

 hairy. Leaves lyrate-pinnatifid or pinnatisect into oblong, 

 dentate lobes. Beak half as long as pod or more — March to 

 May — Roadsides and fields ; common. 



Var. eriocarpa. Pods scabrous with retrorse hairs 

 (E. Cappadocica, Boiss., var. eriocarpa) — Wadi el Qarn, 

 Antilebanon. 



Var. Cappadocica, Segments of leaves less toothed. 

 Pod longer, glabrous, beak one-third its length ; seeds 

 larger than in type. (E. Cappadocica, Boiss.) — Be- 

 tween Hamath and Palmyra. 



Fig. 



24. SAVIOJIfYA, DC. El-Qulaiqalah. 



Calyx erect, equal. Pod stipitate, elliptical, with chartaceous 

 valves ; septum with 3 layers. Stigma simple. Seeds in 2 rows, 

 winged, with half-adnate funicles — Viscid, glabrous, or sparingly 

 hairy divaricately branched, desert herbs, with small pale pink 

 flowers. 



S. JEsjptiaca, DC. Hhaldwah, © 

 .Ito .15. Leaves fleshy, the lower 

 obovate-oblong, dentate, petioled ; up- 

 per linear, pinnatifid, or entire. Pods 

 on flliform, spreading pedicels twice 

 their length ; style apiculate — Feb- 

 ruary to April — Et-Tih and south- 

 ward. 



Fig. 25. 



Pod ofSavignya/Egyptiaca. 



25. CARRICHTERA, DC. 



Calyx erect, equal at base. Petals clawed, entire. Pod globular- 

 ovate ; style flattened, spoon-shaped, ovate, leaflike ; cells 4-ovuled 

 — Dwarf annuals, with small cream-colored, violet-veined petals. 



C. Tellse, DC. .1 to .3, glabrous, or slightly hairy, dichoto- 

 mous from base. Leaves bipinnatisect into linear lobes — March to 

 May — Aleppo to Moab, Jerusalem, Et-Tih, and southward, and east- 

 ward. -, 



26. RICOTIA, L. 



Calyx bisaccate. Petals clawed, obcordate or retuse. Fruit a 

 flat lenticular or elliptical silicle, 1-celled by disappearance of thin 

 septum, or a linear 2-celled silique with papyraceous septum. Seeds 

 in 1 row, flattened, wingless — Annual, sparingly hairy herbs, with 

 pink or white flowers, and recurved fruiting pedicels. 



