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RICOTIA sqmrtSaca 



Egyptian lUcotia. 



TETRADYNAMIA SILICVLOSA. 



RICOTIA. Cal. (tetraphyllus) connivens. (Corolla) pcta/a (4 

 in crucem disposita, unguiculata,) apice plana obcordata. Stylus (). 

 (Silicula oblonga sessilis : valvis planis ; septo obliterate uniloculars. 

 Cotyledones accumbentes obcordata;. Brozcn in llort. Kew. ed. 2. 4. 

 9S-) Folia pinnata ; foliolis lot at is. Lunarije /ructej ml unilocularis 

 angustior. Setn. circiter 4. Jussieu. gen. 230. 



It. agi/ptiaca, foliis pinnatis : foliolis incisis, floribus racemosis, siliculis 



pendulis. Persoon. syn. 2. 194. 

 Ricotia aegyptiaca. Lih. sp.pl. 2. 912. Ilort. Kew. 2. 386. ed. 2. 4. 



98. ^ IV Hid. sp.pl. 3. 477- 



Lunaria aegyptiaca. . Mart. Mill. Die 



Gccrtn. sem. 2. 289- t. 142. f. J. Roth, cat alec t a 





Lunaria Ricotia. 



hot. S.5\. 

 L. foliis supradecompositis : foliolis trifidis, siliquis oblongis pendulis. 



Mill. ic. 2. 113. t. 169. 

 Cardamine Lunaria. Lin. sp.pl. ed. 1. 2. 606. 



Planta annua y debilior et modo diffusa, iota glabra. Caulis ratnosus, 



b }J u ga; foi 

 incisa. Ra 



pedicelli Jl 

 foliol 



niter brevior. Folia inferius caul ma y impari-jrinnata, distanter 

 ola petiolata 9 lamina lata rot undo t a integra v. scepius lobato- 

 :emi multiflori y ramorum continui, crectiusculi, senshn elongandi; 

 re breviores, ebracteati, distantes y sparsi. Cal. subcoloratus, 

 n-oblongis y apice pat id is y 2 alternis basi gibbis et saccatis. Cor. 

 erecta, purpurascens, alba in disco ; petalorum ungues angustissimi, calyce 

 parilm altiores. Stam, longitudine unguium. Pistillum his vix ce quale : 

 stylus subnullus : stigma in sensic illi a quo comprimitur germen contrario 

 compressum, obtusiiis lanceolatum y secundum utramque acicm pubescens. Si- 

 licula membranacea, subdiaphana , lanceolato-ovalis> subrhomboidea y unciam 

 vix unam longa : sem. paucq, orbiculata, lenticulari-compressa. 





An annual plant, by no means common, although of long 

 standing in our gardens, having been cultivated in 1757 by 

 Miller; who says that it had been brought a few years he- 

 fore from Egypt to the royal gardens at Paris. Very like 

 the common annual or mediterranean Stock. 



The genus was instituted by Linnaeus, and distinguished 

 from Luxaria, chiefly by its sessile unilocular silicle, which 

 is not, as in that, conspicuously pedicled and divided into 

 two loculaments by a persistent detached dissepiment pa- 

 rallel with and equal to the valves. 



