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shaped. A nectary at the base of each petal. Cotyledons 
accumbent. 
20. Crambe maritima. Anglesea, June 4, and September, 
1828. The rudiment of the seed in the lower joint of the 
germen, has its funiculus inserted into the lower part of the 
upper cell, whereabout the funiculus of the other rudiment 
is also placed. Some traces of a partition are at times 
visible. The cotyledons are “folded,” and may be con- 
sidered either accumbent or incumbent; but since both the 
edges of each cotyledon are equally distant from the radicle 
it is more properly a seed with incumbent cotyledons. 
21. Nasturtium sylvestre. Near Warrington, September 
16, 1826. Stems hollow, rather woody, slender. Flower-stalks 
at length horizontally spreading, sometimes deflexed, about 
as long as the silique, which is bent upwards and crowned 
with the short permanent style. Stigma somewhat peltate. 
Seeds granulated, shining, light-yellowish brown. Cotyledons 
accumbent. 
22. Arabis thaliana. May 4, 1827. (Common in Ches- 
shire, &c.) Each filament has a gland at its base: those 
belonging to the shorter filaments are larger than the rest. 
Petals in cloudy weather, spreading: at other times erect. 
In a flowering state the stems are often drooping. Shorter 
filaments sometimes wanting. Herbage somewhat glaucous. 
23. Brassica campestris. September, 1826. Flower-stalh 
variable in length; sometimes shorter than the beak of the 
silique. The glands on the outside of the longer filaments 
soon wither away. The others are more permanent, of a 
more abrupt shape. I cannot very easily understand the 
leaves to be pointed. The calyx-leaves cohere in pairs. 
The shorter filaments are opposite to the valves of the 
silique. 
24. Brassica oleracea. Ormeshead, June, 1826. The pods, 
when ripe, are four-sided, two of the angles formed by the 
keels of the valves, the two others by the sutures. 
very short, but not * wanting." 
25. Fumaria claviculata. Cheshire, June 7, 1827. Style 
