deserving of cultivation, whether in the flower-border or 
on the shelves of a cool greenhouse. The almost sessile 
spreading and concave petals give it an appearance very 
unlike that of most cruciform flowers. The blossoms are 
long-lived, and the same plant will yield a succession of 
flowers from July to October. 
Descr. Root annual, subfusiform. Stems one or several 
from the same root, a foot or more high, erect, but flexuose 
and weak, so that it is desirable to prop them with a stick 
in cultivation ; clothed, as is the whole herbage, with short 
stellated down, but much less so than most of the known 
downy Vesicariz. Radical leaves oblong, or almost spa- 
thulate, tapering below into a footstalk, pinnatifid and 
somewhat lyrate, the lobes obtuse; cauline ones oblong, 
sessile, subamplexicaul, more or less sinuato-dentate; all of 
them paler and more downy beneath. Raceme, when fully 
advanced, eight or ten inches and not unfrequently a foot 
in length, bearing numerous large, bright-yellow flowers. 
Pedicels, in fruit, nearly an inch long. Calyx of five 
oblong-oval, hoary, spreading leaves. Corolla of five 
rounded, spreading, concaye petals, scarcely unguiculate. 
Stamens six, tetradynamous, yellow: Filaments subulate : 
_ Anthers oblong. Pouch globose, membranous, glabrous, 
situated on a very short stalk, and longer than the style. 
Stigma capitate. Seeds generally about four or six in 
number. 
Fig. 1. Stamens and Pistil. 2. Petal. 3. Stamens. 4. Silicule:—mag- 
nefied. 5. Root-leaf:—nat. size. 
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