CRUCIFER^. (MUSTARD FAMILY.) 87 



long, .003 broad, mucronate with short style — May to September — 

 Alpine and subalpine regions of Lebanon and Antilebanon. 



34. EROPHIL.A, DC. 



Calyx erect, equal at base. Petals bifid. Filaments free, toothless. 

 Silicles elliptical to oblong — Annual dwarf herbs, with rosetted root- 

 leaves, and racemed scapes with minute white flowers. 



* Cells of silicle 7-8-seeded. 



1. E. minima, C. A. M. .03 to .1. Leaves linear, often .02 

 long, entire or dentate, slightly hirsute with simple hairs. Silicles .005 

 long or less — Spring — Fields, Lebanon to Damascus, Aintab, and 

 northward. Top of wall of Jerusalem. 



* * Cells of silicle IQ-M-seeded. 



2, E. praecox, Stev. © .1. Leaves oblong or elliptical, some- 

 what petioled, sparingly scabrous with branching hair. Silicles orbicu- 

 lar-elliptical — Spring — Damascus. 



3. E. vulgaris, DC. .05 to .1. Leaves oblong, sessile, sparingly 

 hisjiid with branching hair. Silicles oMong-elliptical, .005 long — Spring 

 — Rasheiyah to Aintab, and northward. 



4, E. setulosa, Boiss. et Bal. .05 to .1. Leaves rhomloid, 

 sparingly furnished with simple or forlced hristles, tapering to a petiole. 

 Silicles oblong-elliptical, .007 long — Spring — Fields ; maritime 

 plains of Syria ; lower zone of Lebanon ; Nusairy mountains. 



35. EEPTALEUM, DC. 



Sepals linear, erect, equal at base. Petals linear. Longer stamens 

 long-connate in f)airs, often reduced by abortion to two. Pod nearly 

 indehiscent, linear, somewhat flattened ; valves 1 -nerved, reticulate ; 

 lobes of stigma connate in a minute cone — Annual, dwarf, white- 

 flowered herbs. 



E. filifoliiimi, DC. .03 to .1, glabrous, divaricately branched. 

 Leaves thread-shaped undivided, or pinnatipartite with filiform lobes. 

 Flowers .005 long, sessile, axillary. Pods .03 long, .003 broad — 

 Hharr^n in northern Syria, and northward, and eastward. 



36. CAMEEIXA, Crantz. False Flax. 



Calyx nearly equal at base. Petals entire, oblong-linear, tapering 

 from apex to base. Filaments free, toothless. Pod an ovate, obovate, 

 or orbicular silicle, or a linear-cylindrical silique, with keeled margins ; 

 valves turgid, indurated ; stigma simple ; seeds in two rows, rarely in 

 one — Annual herbs, glabrous or hispid with forked hairs. Flowers 

 yellow. Root-leaves oblong, stem-leaves oblong-lanceolate, sagittate- 

 auriculate. 



* Pods pyriform to orbicular or ovate. Seeds in 2 rows, 



1. C, sativa, L. Sparingly pubescent. Leaves entire or 

 repand-deutate. Fruiting racemes .1 to .15 long, rather compact. 

 Pedicels spreading, twice or thrice && long as glabrous, margined, .008 



