- Garden Stock (or Jt flower) is the type of the 
20 CRUCIFERZ (Sond.) [ Matthiola. 
z * Siliqua dehiscent at maturity. 
+ Seeds with flat, accumbent cotyledons (o =). 
I. Matthiola.—Sepals erect, saccate at base. 
& II. Nasturtium.—Sepals spreading, equal at base. 
++ Seeds with flat, incumbent cotyledons (9 || ). 
VIN Sisymbrium, : | 
os ttt Seeds with broad cotyledons folded over the radicle (0 >>). 
XII. Brassica.— Valves of pod one-nerved, and veiny. 
XIII. Sinapis.— Valves of pod 3-5 nerved: 
** Siliqua indehiscent. 
XVIII. Carponema.—(Seeds as in Heliophila). 
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B. StricuLos#.—Fruit-pod short, few seeded, not thrice as long as 
broad (a silicula.) 
1. Silicula dehiscent at maturity. 
* Silicula with flattish valves and a broad septum. 
VII. Alyssum.—Silicle orbicular or oval. Cotyledons accumbent (0 =). 
XIX. Heliophila.—Cotyledons elongate, twice folded on the radicle (oll il). 
** Silicula with keeled or boatshaped valves and a narrow septum. 
= X. Lepidium.—Seeds solitary in each cell. 
<3 XI. Capsella.—Seeds numerous in each cell. 
2. Silicula indehiscent at maturity : seeds solitary. 
* Silicula didymous or deeply 2-lobed. 
IX. Senebiera.—Petals minute, scarcely equalling the sepals. 
5a? XV. Brachycarpea.—Petals much longer than the sepals. 
** Silicula orbicular or somewhat ovate. 
XVI. Cycloptychis.—Silicula ovate, beaked, with convex wrinkled valves. 
XVII. Palmstruckia,—Silicula orbicular, with flat valves. 
Tribe I. Pievroruizes. 
Seeds with flat cotyledons, whose edges are directed to the radicle of 
accumbent (o =). 
Sub-tribe I. Amrapioes. 
Pod (siliqua) long or shortish, linear, cylindrical or compressed, many 
seeded. 
I. MATTHIOLA. R. Br. 
Sepals erect, the two lateral ones saccate at base. Stliqua sub-terete, 
elongate, with round-backed valves. Stigma thickened, bidentate. 
_ Seeds compressed, mostly margined, in a single row. DOC. Prod. 1. p. 
132. 
Herbs or suffrutescent plants, mostly natives of the South of Europe and North 
Africa, hoary or rough, with short, stellate, thickly set pubescence. Leaves entire 
or sinuate-toothed ; racemes terminal. Flowers white or purple. The Common 
us. The name is in honour of 
P. A, Matthiolus, an Italian physician and botanist of the 16th century. 
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“1. M tornlosa (DC. Syst. II. p. 169) ; stem erect, slightly branched, — 
‘rough with stellate hairs ; leaves linear, subentire, tomentose ; pods — 
