TETRADYNAMIA— SILICULOSA. Lepidium. 165 



.47zM. of 2 roundish lobes. Germ, roundish. *S7j//t' slender, 

 or wanting. Stigvia obtuse. Pouch orbicular, or oblong, 

 transversely compressed, either entire or notched at the 

 summit, crowned with the style or stigma, of 2 cells; valves 

 keel-shaped, sometimes bordered ; partition very narrow, 

 crossing the greater diameter of the pouch. Seeds 1 in 

 each cell, pendulous, ovate, somewhat angular, or flat- 

 tened ; cotyledons oblong, incumbent. 

 Glaucous or hoary herbs, of a hot pungent flavour. Stem 

 branched. Leaves very various. Fl. copious, white, mi- 

 nute. 



1 . L. latifoimm. Broad-leaved Pepperwort. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate, undivided, serrated. 



L. latifolium. Linn. Sp. PL 899. mild. v. 3. 43G. FL Br. 682. 



Engl. Bot. V. 3. t. 182. Hook. Scot. 194. DeCancL Syst. v. 2. 



548. FL Dan. t. 557. Rali Syn. 304. 

 Lepidium. Trag. Hist.SS.f. Fuchs. Hist. 4SA.f. Muith.Valgr. 



V. 1 . d:)!./. Camer. Epit. 3/8, 379. f,f. 

 L. majus. Cord. Hist. 1 24, 2./. 

 L. Plinianum. Dad. Pcmpt. 715./. 716. Moris, v. 2. 312. sect. 2. 



t. 21./. 1. 

 Nasturtium n. 505. HalL Hist. i;. 1 . 2 1 9. 

 Raphanus sylvestris officinarum. Ger. Em. 241./. Lob. Ic. 318./. 



In salt marshes, and wet sandy shady situations under clifts, near 

 the sea. 



In several parts of Essex. Bay. Yorkshire. Dr. Richardson. Be- 

 low Sheringham cliff's, Norfolk. Mr. Humphrey. 



Perennial. July. 



Roots acrid, very long, creeping and branched, running deep into 

 the earth, and remaining for many years, if planted in sandy 

 ground far from the sea. Whole herb smooth, of a dull glau- 

 cous green, its flavour (hsagreeably pungent and bitter. Stems 

 a yard high, tough, branched, leafy, pale. Loicer leans a span 

 in length, ovate, serrated about the middle, on long stalks ; up- 

 per much smaller, and lanceohite, or linear, acute, nearly sessile, 

 entire. FL numerous, very small, white, in compound, leafy, 

 panicled, corymbose clusters. Stamens 6. Pouch elliptical, 

 crowned with the sessile stigma. 



A common (ireek ])lant, the Lcpidion of Dioscorides, who attri- 

 butes an acrid ulcerating (juality to its leaves, and it still bears 

 the name oi' Lq>idi in Attica. 



2. L. rudcralc. Narrow-leaved Pepperwort. 



SUimens two. Petals none. Leaves smooth ; lower ones 

 pinnatifid, toothed ; upper linear, entire. Pouch notched. 



