26 CRUCIFERZ. (MUSTARD FAMILY.) 
* * Annuals. 
3. C. spathulata, Michx. “Radical leaves petiolate, spathulate, entire, 
pubescent with branching hairs; stem-leaves linear. Stem decumbent, silique 
linear, straight, spreading and slightly reflexed, pointed with the sessile stigma.” — 
(DC.) — High mountains of Carolina (Michaux). (*) 
4. C. Ludovieiana, Hook. Low; stems branching and hairy at the 
base; leaves lanceolate, pinnatifid with numerous oblong or linear sparingly 
toothed lobes, those of the root tufted; silique broadly linear, erect-spreading, - 
pointed with the sessile stigma; seeds orbicular, margined. — Waste places near — — 
dwellings, Florida to North Carolina and westward. Marchand April. — Stems — — 
4'-6'high. Flowers small, white. E 
5. C. hirsuta, L. Smooth or hairy; stem erect (19 — 2° high), branching; 
leaves pinnatifid, with numerous oval or oblong sparingly toothed lobes, those 
of the upper leaves linear and entire; silique narrow-linear, erect, pointed with - 
the nearly sessile stigma; seeds oval, minute, marginless — Var. VIRGINICA. | 
(C. Virginica, Michx.) Smaller (6/—10/ high); lobes of the leaves linear or 
filiform. — Wet (the variety in dry) soil, Florida and northward. March and 
April. — Flowers small, white. 
4. DENTARIA, L. Toornwort. | 
Silique lanceolate, flattened. Seeds ovate, disposed in a single row in each 
cell, on flattened stalks, not margined. — Perennial herbs, with creeping fleshy 
roots, and simple stems, bearing at the summit 2-3 palmately-divided leaves, — 3 
and a single raceme of large white or purple flowers. Radical leaves on long — 
petioles. [s 
1. D. diphylla, Michx. Root notjointed ; stem-leaves 2, opposite or near- - 
ly so, ternately divided; leaflets ovate or ovate-lanceolate, coarsely toothed; — 
those of the root similar; racemes many-flowered, longer than the leaves; fow- — — 
ers white. — Rich shady woods, along the mountains and northward. April. — 
Stem 8' -12' high. Root pungent. 
2. D. laciniata, Muhl. Root jointed; stem-leaves mostly 3, whorled, 
ternately divided; leaflets lanceolate or linear, lobed and toothed; the lateral 
ones 2-parted; those of the root similar or sometimes wanting; racemes few — 
many-flowered, often shorter than the leaves; flowers white or pale purple.— — — 
Banks of rivers in shady places, Florida and northward. Feb.-— April. — Stem. 
4/-12! high. r 
purple. — Shady woods, North Carolina and northward. April. — Stem 6' - 12^ 
