TETRADYNAMIA— SILIQUOSA. Raphanus. 225 



Common throughout the isle of Thanet, particularly about Rams- 

 gate. Mr. Dillwyn. Below Bristol. Mr. E. Forster. 



Annual. August, September. 



Root tapering, small. Stem branching from the bottom, about a 

 span high, spreading, leafy in the lower part, clothed all over 

 with reflexed bristly hairs. Leaves usually quite smooth, of a 

 lightish green, not glaucous, varying much in form, either 

 broadly lanceolate inclining to obovate, or imperfectly lyrate ; 

 deeply serrated, or unequally sinuated ; always acute, not 

 rounded, at the extremity, and tapering at the base into afoot- 

 stalk. Fl. lemon-coloured, smaller and paler than the last, m 

 dense abrupt corymbose clusters, greatly elongated after flower- 

 ing. Cal. moderately spreading from the bottom, a little hairy. 

 Pet. obovate, somewhat spreading. Pods on distant spreading 

 stalks of various lengths, much like those of S. tenuifolia, but 

 less decidedly erect, and the seeds less accurately double-ranked. 

 Style and stigma as in that species. The calyx in both spreads 

 less than the character of a Sinapis requires. 1 have Gouan's 

 plant from himself. It is not constant enough in the deeper di- 

 visions of its leaves to be marked as a variety. 



344. RAPHANUS. Radish. 



Linn. Ge«. 343. Jmss. 238. Fl. Br.723. Comp. ed. 4. 109. Br. 

 inAiL H. Kew.v. 4.129. DeCand. Sijst. v. 2. 662. Lam. t. 566. 



Raphanistrum. Tour7t. t. 115. Gcertn. t. \ 43. 



Cal. erect; leaves oblong, parallel, converging, deciduous; 

 2 of them slightly prominent at the base. Pet. obovate, 

 or inversely heart-shaped, spreading ; claws linear, erect. 

 Filam. awl-shaped, simple, erect. Anth. oblong, a little 

 spreading. Glands 4; 2 at the inside of the shorter fila- 

 ments ; 2 at the outside of the longer. Germ, cylindrical, 

 tapering. Style awl-shaped. Stigma capitate, small, en- 

 tire. Pod oblong, imperfectly cylindrical, tapering up- 

 ward, irregularly tumid, as if more or less jointed, coria- 

 ceous, not bursting, of 2 incomplete cells, the membra- 

 nous partition often obliterated. Seeds pendulous, glo- 

 bose, forming a single row ; cotyledons folded, incum- 

 bent, their doubled edges meeting the radicle. 



Upright, branched, spreading, smooth or bristly herbs ; 

 their lower leaves lyrate. Fl. large, yellow, white, or 

 purplish, often veiny. Pods internally spongy, very va- 

 riable as to their jointed appearance, in the same species; 

 so that even Prof. DeCandolle preserves the Linnaean 

 genus entire, in opposition to the opinion of Tournefort 

 and Gasrtner, who founded their genus Raphanistrum on 

 the more decidedly jointed pods^ breaking transversely, 

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