CRUCIPEK^. (mustard FAMILY.) 101 



B. Erncago, L. .3 to 1 or more, spar- 

 ingly pubescent. Lower leaves Fig. 47 

 runcinate or sinuate-dentate ; up- 

 per linear-oblong, acute, entire. 

 Wings of silicle crest-like ; cells 4 

 — Spring — 



Ripe pod of B. Erucago, 



Var. ecliinata, Boiss. Wings of pod split to base into 5-6 

 lanceolate teeth — Fields and hedges ; northern Syria. 



61. ZIL.L-A, Forsk. Zilla. SillaJi. 



Calyx erect, equal at base. Petals oblong, entire, long-clawed. 

 Filaments free, toothless. Silicles crustaceous ovate-globular, corky- 

 fungous, 2-celled ; style bony, beak-like ; seeds 1 in each cell, pen- 

 dulous — Horny, nearly leafless, dichotomously branched, desert 

 shrubs, with pink flowers 



Z. myag^roicles, Forsk. 5 ^^^- 48 



Es-Sillah. .3 to .5, glabrous. 

 Lower leaves rosetted, soon with- 

 ering, oblong, repand-lobed, ta- 

 pering into a petiole ; upper oblong 

 to linear, obtuse. Flowers .01 

 long ; silicle glabrous, smooth, or 

 irregularly ribbed or pitted — 

 December to April — Southern 

 end of Dead Sea, and southward. 



62. CRAMBE, L. Crambb. 



Calyx spreading, equal at base. 

 Petals oborate, entire. Longer Pod and thorns of Ziiia myagroides. 



filaments generally toothed below apex. Loments indehiscent ; lower 

 joint pedicelliform, seedless ; upper globular, hard, 1-celled, 1-seeded; 

 stigma sessile ; seed suspended by a funicle which ascends from the 

 bottom of the cell, globular — Herbs or shrubs with a broad panicle of 

 rather small white flowers. 



* Perennial. Lower leaves lobed, not parted. 



1. C. niaritima, L. If. Sea-Kale. Glabrous. Root-leaves 

 elliptical-oblong, or rounded, wavy, sinuate or lobed. Loment .008 to 

 .01 long ; upper joint ovate — Spring — Coast (Tristram.) 



2. C. Orientali§, L. 2^ .6 to 1, stem glabrous. Leaves sca- 

 brous, ovate-ohlong to oblo7ig lanceolate, the lowermost .3 to .3 long, un- 

 divided, the others pinnatifid or lobed — May to July— Fields; 

 Aleppo to Aintab. 



Yar. Aucheri, Boiss. Leaves xelvety-canescent — Coelesyria, 

 Antilebanon, and Damascus, to Aleppo and northward. 



* * Annual or Mennial to perennial. Lowei' leaves lyrate. 



3. C. Hispanica, L. .3 to .6, sparingly hispid. Lateral 



