. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. ARD FAMILY.) style terete, slightly bifid — April to June — Fields and rocks; Damascus,Antilebanon to 1,500 m., and Zahleh, to southern Palestine. 14. EREjWrOBIUH, Boiss. GhuleisM. Calyx erect, long-persistent, bisaccate. Petals linear-spathulate,entire, pinkish. Pods linear, torulose. Seeds nearly orbicular, mar-gined. Cotyledons obliquely accumbent — Annual hei-bs, canescent•with stellate hairs, or glabrescent. A genus doubtfully distinguishedfrom Malcolmia, which it
. Flora of Syria, Palestine, and Sinai : from the Taurus to Ras Muhammas and from the Mediterranean sea to the Syrian desert. ARD FAMILY.) style terete, slightly bifid — April to June — Fields and rocks; Damascus,Antilebanon to 1,500 m., and Zahleh, to southern Palestine. 14. EREjWrOBIUH, Boiss. GhuleisM. Calyx erect, long-persistent, bisaccate. Petals linear-spathulate,entire, pinkish. Pods linear, torulose. Seeds nearly orbicular, mar-gined. Cotyledons obliquely accumbent — Annual hei-bs, canescent•with stellate hairs, or glabrescent. A genus doubtfully distinguishedfrom Malcolmia, which it strongly resembles in habit. 1. E. JEgyptiacum, Spreng. 0 .1 to .3, prostrate, or ascend-ing, branching, com2)act. Leaves sessile, oblong, to oblong-linear, derise, many-Jiowered ; flowers .005 long, overtopped by youngpods (as in Cardamine hirsuta); pedicels half as long as calyx, or less ;fruiting raceme compact; pods .015 long, .001 broad, stellate-canescent,6-18-seeded — February to May — Sandy places; et-Tih and south-ward, and westward to Egypt. Too near Malcolmia confusa^ Boiss. Fig. 18. Fig. 18. (a) Fruiting raceme of E. -^gyptiacum, Spreng. (6) Fruiting raceme of , Del. (e) Mature pod of tlie same. 2. E. lineare, Del. 0 Samik. Qdbdh. .1 to .2, prostrate, branch-ing, straggling. Leaves sessile, oblong-linear^ linear, or cylindrical, loose, few-floicered ; flowers .008 to .01 long, not overiopiJcd lypods ; pedicels nearly as long as calyx ; fruiting raceme elongated, loose; pods,015 to .025 long, .002 broad, puberulent otglabrescent, 4-8-seeded ;^eeds twice as broad as in last — February to April — Sandy places ;•et-Tih, and southward. Perhaps a variety of the last, but regarded bySchweinfUrth and Ascherson, Supplement to Flora Orientalis, p. 30,as a distinct species. An examination of many specimens, in thedeserts where they grow, leads us to confirm this opinion. 15. SIS¥l«IBRIlJ]fI, All. Fed. Hedge-Mustahd. Ca
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