184 TETIIADYNAMIA— 8ILICULOSA. Crambe. 



ments obtuse^ with a minute glandular point. Fl. rather large 

 and handsome, of a bright lilac-colour, densely corymbose. 

 Pouches an inch long, in clusters, their lower joint generally 

 abortive; they are erect, with 4 sharp edges, but so compressed as 

 to be sword-shaped at the upper part, and when ripe the upper 

 joint falls off, without bursting. The contrary direction of their 

 seeds, when both perfect, affords a striking generic character. 



330. CRAMBE. Kale. 



Linn. Gen. M'^. Juss. 242. Fl.Br.695. DeCand. Si/st.v.2. 650. 

 Tourn. t. 100. Lam. t. 553. Gcertn.t. 142. 



Cal. spreadiiiji^, nearly equal at the base ; leaves elliptic- 

 oblong, concave, deciduous. Pet. equal, each with a 

 spreading, rounded, obtuse border, rather longer than its 

 clavv. Filam. awl-shaped, 4 longest generally each with 

 a sharp lateral tooth. Anth, elliptic-oblong, erect. Germ. 

 ovate-oblong. Style scarcely any. Stigma obtuse. Pouch 

 succulent, finally leathery, of 2 joints, each of 1 cell, not 

 bursting; the lowermost abortive, assuming the form of 

 a stalk ; the upper globular, deciduous. Seed solitary, 

 globose, pendulous from the extremity of a long, curved, 

 capillary stalk, springing from the bottom of the cell; 

 cotyledons roundish, convex, fleshy, folded, accumbent; 

 not, as in DeCandolle's general table, incumbent. 



Herbaceous, or somewhat shrubby. Leaves rather succu- 

 lent, toothed, or pinnatifid, in some lyrate, either smooth 

 or haivy. Fl. white, in clustered panicles, 



1. C marUima. Sea Kale. 



Longer filaments toothed. Leaves roundish, sinuated, 

 wavy, toothed, glaucous, very smooth as well as the 

 stem. 



C. maritima. Linn. Sp. PI. 937. Willd, v. 3.418. Fl. Br. 695. 



Engl. Bot. V. 13. t. 924. Hook. Scot. 193. DeCand. Syst. v. 2. 



65 1 . Fl. Dan. t.3\6. 

 C. maritima, Brassicae folio. Rail Si/n. 307. 

 Brassica marina anglica. Ger. Em. 3\5.f. 

 }i. monospermos anglica. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 830. 

 Sea Cole. Turn. Herd, part 1. 89. 

 Sea Grape Colewort. Petit. H. Brit. t. AS.f. 12. 

 On the sandy sea coast. 

 Perennial . May, June. 

 Boot large and fleshy, much divided at the crown. Herb very 



glaucousj smooth; rather succulent, Stems severalj from 1 to 



