or pinmnately compounde 
/G.Radicule Dill. Water Cress. 
Annual, bienniel or perennial herbs of marshy ground 
aquatic, mostly glabrous, some hispid with simple hairs, Leaves pinnatifid 
Flowers numerous, smé11, yellow or white. Sepals Spreading; petals clawed. 
Pods terete, #urgkd, globose to oblong=cylindrical, often curved. Seeds 
» in 2 rows.™~. 
phase ~ pean 
O Petals white, twice the length of the Sepals; 
4 pinnate 
» Or sane 
leaves 
J. Re nasturtium-aguaticun 
—— 
ee 
O Petals yellow, shorter than or equal to the sepals; 
4 leaves pinnatifid 
& Pods 1 mm. wide, 1 cn. long, stems decumbent 
2. Re curvisiliqua 
es 
Ce ey 
2 Pods 2-2.5 mm. wide, 3-8 mn. long; stems erect ¢« palustris 
- Re nasturtium-aquatica (L.) 
growing in water or mud with Creeping stems rooting at the 
forming large patches; leaflets 5-11, subrotund o 
1.5 em. long, lightly curved, ascending, 
long. (Nasturtium officinale R. Bre). 
:A perennial weed 
nodes, often 
r ovate, subentire; pods about 
borne on Spreading pedicels half as 
ae ap Pe ME ee Le. gt ea ee 
considered as 
In bogey, Bround_or small streams? ze 
r ropes S. Be Parish has 
put forward imperteort arguments for accepting it as a native, however, 
Pip Sa 
é- Re curvisiliqua (Hook.) Greene. Anmal or biennial, diffuse, 
15-50 cm. tall? stems several, branching, decumbent, hispidulous; basal leaves 
numerous in a rosette, sometimes withering, 5-15 om. long, oblanceolate, 
laciniately pinnatifid, the lobes narrowed at the base, the sims very broad 
and rounded, often with a tooth, their margins irregularly serrate-dentate, 
both surfaces glabrous; cauline leaves similar, sessile, auricled; flowers 
yellow, mmerous in terminal panicles 8-12 cm. long; sepals 2 mme long, spar-= 
ingly hispidulous, Spreading, the petals subequal, mostly oval, greenishe = 
yellow; stamens 4-6, subequal; ovary hispidulous along the sutures: pods about 
3 
l_cm. long, arcuate-ascending, l=-1.2 mm. wide, ps hehe, obtuse, the persistent 
style nearly 1 mn. long, pedicels 5-7 mm. long; seeds .5 mm. in diameter. 
Muddy or marshy ground below 3000 fest; throughout our region. 
| 
hi 
\ bby om | 
