_. petals little exceeding the calyx. Pod strongly compressed contrary to 
7, Capsella Medic. - 
Annual herbs. Basal leaves tufted. Flowers small and white, the 
the partition, triangular-obcordate (in our species) the style persistent 
in the notch. Seeds several. : 
1. C. Bursa-pastoris (L.) Medic. Shepherd's Purse, Of varied: 
aspect, the stems simple, 10-15 cm. tall, or more commonly several, branch- 
ing throughout, 40-50 cm. tall; basal leaves in a tuft, oblanceolate, 4-6 
cme long (or less) irregularly simately toothed, or subentire, narrowed to 
a margined petiole about half the length of the blade, Stellate-pubescent, 
the margin ciliate, cauline leaves narrowly oblong, reduced upwards, auricled 
at the base; racemes in fruit 25-30 cm. long, very open; flowers white, 2.5 
mne long, pods 6 mm. long, strongly flattened but the margins rounded, the 
whole somewhat concave, trian-ular obcordate, sometimes nearly truncate at 
the apex; . pedicels commonly twice as long, 
ascending. —>(Bursa Bursa-pastoris Britt. ), 
A familiar weed of waste places and around dwellings, naturalized from 
Kurope e 
