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Specimens examined: Key West, Florida, Tweedy 138; Cuba, 

 Wright 1863; Port Antonio, Jamaica, Fredholm 3168, March jj ; Pro- 

 greso, Yucatan, Millspaugh 7 (1887); Celestun, Yucatan, Schott 376 ; 

 Island of Cozumel, Gaunter, 139. 



CAKILE CAKILE (Linn.) Karst. Deutsch. Fl., 663. 

 Bunias Cakile Linn. 

 Cakile maritima Scop. 



Silique turgid, 2 cm. long, with a strongly lipped and sharply 



angled articulation, hastate by two 

 more or less prominently project- 

 ing horns. Upper joint mitriform, 

 thick-walled, 2-angled, 1.5 cm. 

 long, nearly orbicular in section, 

 the apex ensiform, acute; seed 4.3 

 X2-5 mm., bright red, cotyledons 

 strongly demarked. Lower joint 

 generally fertile, hastate, compara- 

 tively thick-walled, 6 mm. long, 

 2-angled, ellipsoid in section; seed 

 4.6x 2 mm., more nearly cylindri- 

 cal than that of the upper joint. 



Leaves laciniate-pinnatifid, the 

 divisions much more slender than in the following species. 



Habitat: Northern Europe, especially the Baltic strand. 

 Though mentioned by various authors as growing in America, it is 

 found only on ballast grounds near the greater ports. 



American specimens examined: Communipaw Ferry, Jersey City, 

 New Jersey, Addison Brown " Jf," in herb. Gray, Cambridge; Jersey 

 City, New Jersey, Schrenk; Camden, New Jersey, Parker; Greenwich 

 Point, Philadelphia, Parker 10990, in herb. Mo. Bot. Garden; Wil- 

 mington, North Carolina, Gerald McCarthy in herb. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 227153. 



CAKILE MONOSPERMA Lange, PI. Nov. Hisp. , 1:5, t. 7. 



Silique fusiform, curved, 1.1-1.4 cm. long, the articulation in- 

 conspicuous, almost horizontal. Up- 

 per joint turgid, sharply quadrangu- 

 lar, long-pointed, strongly angled 

 and prominently marked by anastom- 

 osing veins between the angles, 

 diamond-shaped in section, the walls 

 thin; seed reddish, elongated, 5x 1.8 

 mm. Lower joint sterile, 1.5 mm., 

 reduced to an apparent enlargement 

 of the short pedicel and showing only 

 a vestige of a cavity. 



Prostrate, the lower leaves dis- 

 tantly pinnatifid, the few segments ligulate, entire, rounded at the 

 apex; upper leaves spatulate, dentate at the rounded apex; upper- 

 most leaves papillate with'one or two rudimentary laciniae. 



