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j. Raphams L. Radish. 
Erect branching anmal or biennial herbs. Basal leaves lyrately 
pinnate or pinnatifid. Flowers purple or white tinged with purple. Pods 
columnar, indehiscent, tapering into a beak, the seeds Separated by corky 
thick transverse partitions. 
1. Re sativus L. Stems 1 m. tall or more, much branched above; 
leaves glabrate or hirsute; flowers purple or white, rather showy; pods 
4-5 cme long, 6-7 mm. thick, 2-3 seeded. 
A frequent weed in waste places; naturalized fran Europe. 
2. Thysanocarpus Hook. . 
Erect slender anmal herbs, 
Leaves alternate, the basal oblanceolate, the cauline auricled. Flowers 
mimute, white or purplish, the pedicels soon recurving. Pods orbicular, 
very thin, indehiscent, disc-like and usually concave, the margin winged, often 
coglike. Ovules_ and seeds solitary. 
1. Te curvipes Hook.} Rather pretty, slender, erect annuals, the stems simple 
or more commonly once or twice branched in the upper axils, the branches 
filiform, hispidulous with Simple hairs near the base, glabrous above; lower- 
most leaves oblanceolate, 22.5 om. long, narrowed to m indefinite petiole, 
the margin sinuately toothed, both surfaces more or less hispidulous; upper 
leaves lanceolate, snaller and reduced above, auricled and Clasping, even 
subhastate, glabrous, entire, acute; flowers about 1.52 mn. long; pod dimde—g 
i : : narrowed slightly at the base, about 5 mm. wide but 
variable, the wing pinkish, often crenulate, nearly as wide as the body of the 
fruit which radiates into it with coglike projections, a thin membrane inter- 
vening, wholly glabrous or hispidulous.—>(T. trichocarpus Rydb.). 
omewhal _ 
var. elegans (F. & Me) Robins. & more robust, the pods commonly 6 
mme broad, the membranes between the coglike projections perforated, at 
least in some. (T. olegans Fisch. & Meyer.) — ———_______ > 
——7 Kootenai Co., Sandberg; Clearwater ( Kooskooskee) Valley, Geyer 343. 
