54 Ml'STARI) FAMILY. 



7. CHEIRANTHUS, WALLFOWER. (Cheiri is the Arabic name-j 

 Like Stocks, hut slightly it' at all hoary, and the flowers orange, hrown-red 

 di.-di, or yellow. 1J. 



C. Cheiri, COMMON WAI M-I.OWI:K. Cult, from S. Eu., not hardy N.. 

 a much-prized house-plant ; Mem woody, crowded with the narrow and pointed 

 entire leave-. 



8. ERYSIMUM. (Name from Greek, and meaning to draw blisters, from 

 the acridity.) 



E. aspcrum, WI>TI.I;N \\'M i i I.OWKK. Wild from Ohio W. & S. ; like 

 the wild Mate () f the Wallflower, with bright yellow or orange (lowers, but the 

 seeds are diiVerent, ami the long )>"ds finite square in the cross-section; the 

 leaves somewhat toothed anil hoarv. (& U 



E. cheiranthoides, TKEACLB-MUSTARD or WORMSEED MUSTARD. 

 A rather insignificant annual, wild or run wild in waste moi.-t places, with slen- 

 der brandies, lanceolate almost entire leaves, and small yellow flowers, followed 

 by shorti>h and obscurely 4-sided pods on slender spreading pedicels. 



9. BARBAREA, WINTER-CRESS. (The Herb of Santa Barbara.) 

 Different from the last geins in the seeds, divided leaves, and in the general 

 aspect. Leaves used by some as winter salad, but bitterish. U 



B. VUlgaris, COMMON W. or VIOLLOW ROCKET. Smooth, common in 

 old gardens and other rich soil, with green lyrate leave-, and bright yellow 

 flowers, in spring and summer ; pods erect, crowded in a dense raceme, much 

 thicker than their pedicels. 



B. prjecox, EARLY W. or SCUKVY-GKASS. Cult, from 1'enn. f 

 salad, beginning to run wild, probably a variety of the last, with more numerous 

 and narrower divisions to the leaves ; the less erect pods scarcely thicker than 

 their pedicels. 



10. ARABIS, ROCK-CRESS. (Name from Arabic.) Fl. spring and 



summer. Leaves mostly simple and undivided. 



* ]('//'/ s/irrirs, on rocks, $~c. : .//" ra n-hitf r ir/iitisli, not xhoiri/. (|) 



A. lyrata, Low R. A delicate, low. nearly smooth plant, with a cluster 

 of Ivrat'e root-leaves ; stem-leaves few and narrow ; bri-hi white petals rather 

 Conspicuous ; pods slender, spreading. 



A. hirsuta, H.VIKY R, Strictly erect, l-2 high; stem-leaves many 

 and sagittate ; small greenish-white tlowers and narrow pods erect. 



A. fgevigata, SMOOTH K. Erect, l-2 high, glaucous; upper leaves 

 sagittate ; (lowers rather small ; pods .3' long, very narrow and not very Hat, 

 recurving : seeds winded. 



A. Canad6nsis, CANADIAN or Sn-Ki.i.roD K. Tall, growing in ravines 

 stem-leaves pointed at both ends, pubescent: petals whitish, narrow; pods 3' 

 long, scythe-shaped, very llat, hanging; seeds broadly winged. 



# # Wild, m river banfy : Jfottts jrink-pwrple, rather showy. U 



A. hesperidoides, KO<KI.T R. Smooth, erect, l-3 high; with 

 rounded or heart-shaped long-petioled root-lea\ es, ovate-lanceolate stem-leaves 

 (2'-G' long), the lower on a winged petiole or with a pair of small lateral 

 lobes; petals lon<_ r -clawed ; pod.- spreading, narrow ; seeds wingless. Banks of 

 the Ohio and S. W. 



* * * Garden species : flowers white, showy. U 



A. alpina, A i. PINK U., and its variety' A. AI.IMHV, froiu En., low and 

 tufted, hairv or soft-downy, are cult, in gardens ; tl. in early spring. 



11. CARDAMINE, HITTER-CHESS. ( Ancient Greek name.) U 



C. hirsuta, SMAI.I. 15. A low and branching insignificant herb, usually 

 not hairv, with slender 1'ihrous root, jiinnate leaves, the leaflets angled or 

 toothed, and small white flowers, followed by narrow upright pods : common in 

 moist soil, fl. spring and summer. 



