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HUTCHINSIA STYLOSA. SWEET-SCENTED 
LONG-STYLED HUvuTCcHINSIA. 
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Class and Order. 
TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Crucirer=. ) 
Generic Character. 
Silicula elliptica, valvis navicularibus, apteris ; loculis 
at a a polyspermis. Calyx equalis. Petala equa- 
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Specific Character and § non 
Hurcaimsia siylosa ; foliis subcarnosis, inferioribus petio- 
latis obovato-oblongis subintegris, caulinis oblongis, 
staminibus petala et stylo siliculam subequantibus. 
D'@* pate 
Hurcuinsia stylosa. D.C. Syst. Veg. v.2. p. 387. D.C. 
Prodr. 2.1. p. 177. Spreng. Syst. Veg. v. 2. p. 863. 
Igeris stylosa. ‘ Tenore, Prodr. Fl. Neap. XXXVI.” 
Tuxasrr1 minimum. Arduin. Specim. 2. p. 37. t. 15. f. 1.? 
(D.C.) 7 1 
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Descr. A small, tufted growing plant, not above two 
or three inches high, and scarcely more than biennial in its 
duration. Root subfusiform, fibrous. Stems, two or three 
from the same root, and not unfrequently throwing up 
innovations from near the base. Leaves dark green, some- 
what fleshy, quite glabrous, the radical ones the largest, 
and (as are those of the young shoots) more or less petio- 
lated, slightly toothed, oblong or obovate, those of the 
main stems oblong, sessile, scarcely toothed, almost am- 
plexicaul. Flowers in crowded corymbs of a most delight- 
ce. Cal. of four, elliptical, nearly erect, concave 
“ 
_ leaflets, green, the margin scariose, purple. Petals ob- 
long 
