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Capsella.] X. CRUCiFER^. (Hook. f. & T. Anderson.) 159 



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28. CAPSEZiIiA, MoencK 



Small branched annuals or perennials. Radical leaves entire or pinnatifii 

 Flowers small, white, raceme 1. JSejxxb spreading, equal at tlie base. Petals 

 short Fods obcordate cuneate ovate or oblong, laterally compressed ; valves 

 convex or boat-shaped ; septum very narrow ; style short. Seeds numerous, 

 2-seriate, narrowly margined ; cotyledons incumbent.— Distkib, Species 6, 

 natives of N. and S. temperate regions. 



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1. Ci Bursa-pastorls, Moench, ; leaves rosulate pinnatifid, pod trian- 

 gular or obcordate. //./. dh T. m Journ. Linn. Soc. v. 172. , 



tultivated places tbronq;hout temperate India. — Distrib. A weed of cultivation. 



(jlabrous or hairy ; hairs branched; root long, tapering. Stems 6-16 in.j brat)checl. 

 *^t"e« pinnatifid, rarely entire, upper lobe triangular, cauline auricled. Flowers yVin- 

 aiam. Pods \-\m,\ pedicels slender; style short : valves smooth. Seeds many, 

 oblong, punctate. 



1 A^' ©niptlca, G. A.M. ; Led, FL Boss. 1 199 ; annual, glabrous, stems 

 Slender decumbent and ascending, leaves entire or pinnatifid, pods ovate- 

 ^i*^:'^g truncate, ff.f. dh T. in Journ. Linn. Soc. v, 172. C. procumbens, 

 ^om, FL Orient i. 340. Hntchinsia procumbens, Desv. 



Western Tibet, alt. 14,000 ft., r/iom.son.— Distrib. Westward to S. Europe and 

 ^- Atnca (Australia, Chili, perhaps introduced). 



De? iT ^iV^ ^^'' ^""^^^^^us from the root, filiform, flexuous. Leaves |-J in., radical 

 P^ joled, oblong or spathnlate ; upper more sessile, linear, entire. Flmers minute, 

 ^'"te, in elonnraiinop r..,^or..^^ ^ruu ^ ^o,.:!U..„ ...^i^io Potij distant, J4- in., on long 



canJli ",^^**"G^^i«g racemes with a capillary rachis. 

 P^"^^ honzoutal pedicels ; valves boat-shaped. Seeds 



many, minute. 



b.?: '*?<>«sonl, ff.f, in Journ. Linn. Soc. v, 173; perennial, hoary- 

 racemes 



tibetica, 



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toment 



W -^^4* branches spreading from the root, leaves pinnatisect, 

 ^fY, pod broadly oblong truncate at both ends. Hutchinsia 



^f^^'J^^ in Hook Ic. PL t 900. 



^_^7!:'^^ Tibet, alt. 16-18,000 ft., Nubri, Strachet/; Ladak, Thomson. 



^. M^^t^^siform, almost woody, crowned by a short stock that emits many pro- 



W ^ ^ ^'*a"cl»es, 2-6 in. ionsr, with ascendiiig tips. Leaves sessile, i-l in., linear- 



very ^'i ^^^"^^"^s lanceolate. Flowers crowded, white, in the axils of leafy bracts, 

 Teine/ |!*^ P^^icelled. Pods J in. ; valves much compressed, obscurely keeled 

 Hrvr • ^^"^^ sessile, minute. Seeds numerous, very small, funicles slender.— A 

 co^^Jn ?f P'^'^^' q^^te unlike its con-eners, with the habit of the Siberian Hutchinsia 

 .^yci^a, Desv. (Smelowskm, C. A. m!) 



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/7m1 ^^ f ^^^* ^^'■bs, uiidershrubs or shrubs, with entire or divided leaves, 

 •omptr ^^^^^' ^^i*6' ebracteate. ^'epals short, equal at the base. Fetab 

 j^^umes 2-4 or 0. Stamens 6, 4, or 0. Foils ovate or oblong, rarely glo- 

 ValvL^ k" X^"'^^^"^^''' laterally much compressed, tip notched or entire ; 

 SoUtarv • ^ ^ ^^^^' keeled or winged ; septum narrow membranous. Seeds 

 j^j^ "T in each cell ; cotyledons incumbent (in the Indian species).— Dis- 





about 80, chiefly European ana Asiatic. 



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ular^vof ***T^»*» ^inn- ; erect, radical leaves 2-pinnatisect, pods orbi- 

 -"^ate, wingg narrow. -ZT./. & T. in JmrA.:lmn,Soc. v. 174 (Cress.). 



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