]Si TETRADYNAMIA— SILICUL08A. 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 cha- 

 racter. 



330. CRAMBE. Kale. 



Linn. Gen. 344. Jiiss. 242. Fl. Br. 695. DeCand. Syst.v. 2. 650. 

 Tourn. t. 100. Lam. t. .5.53, Gcertn. t. 142. 



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

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

 s})reading, rounded, obtuse border, rather longer than its 

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

 a sharp lateral tooth. Aiith. 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. Sejed solitary, 

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

 capillary stalk, springing from the bottom of the cell ; co- 

 tyledons 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 hairy. Fl. vrhite, in clustered panicles. 



1. C. mar'ithna. Sea Kale. 



Longer filaments toothed. Leaves roundish, sinuated, 

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



C. maritima. Linn. Sp. PL 937. mild. v. 3. 418. Fl. Br. 695. 



Engl. Bot. V. 13. t. 924. Hook. Scot. 1 93. DeCand. Syst. v. 2. 



651. Fl.Dan.f.3\6. 

 C. maritima, Brassicse folio. Raii Syn. 307. 

 Brassica marina anglica. Ger. Em. 315. f. 

 B. monospermos anglica. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 830. 

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

 Sea Grape Colewort. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 48./. 12, 



On the sandy sea coast. 

 Perennial. May, June. 



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

 glaucous, smooth, rather succulent. Stems several, from 1 to 



