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rui. CRUCiFEK.f:. [Nasturtium 



ovate, oblong, or rarely lanceolate, always irregular, confluent and usually 

 sinuate or toothed. Hacemes short, loose, without bracts. Tlowers small, 

 yelloWj the petals scarcely exceeding the calyx. Style short. Pod sessile, 

 turgid, oblons:, obtuse, straight, or slightly curved, generally 3 to 4 Imes 

 long and about 1-^ lines broad, but occasionally rather longer and nan^ower. 

 — Eeichb. Ic. FJ. Germ. ii. 53; N, terreslre, E. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 

 2, iv, 1 10 ; Hook. f. Pb Tasm. i. 21 ; F. Muell. Fl. Yict. i. 31 \ N. semipin- 

 natifidam, Hook, Jouni. Bot. i. 246. 



Queensland- Burdekin river, K Mueller ; Maranoa river, MitchelL 



m. S. "Wales, Port Jackson, U, Brown ; native cabbage of the settlers, Ilerl. Muel- 

 ler; Darling river, F. Mueller. ^ ^ 



Victoria. Around swamps, lakes, and along the banks of rivers in many localities, r. 

 Mueller. 



Tasmania, Abundant on the wet banks of St. Patrick's river and on the Derweut 

 river, J. 1). Hooker. 



S. Australia. Torrcns river, near Adelaide, F. Mueller, 



The specimen from the Darling river has narrow lobes to the almost twice piniiatinfl 

 leaves, but has the normal short pods of the species. Some specimens from the Murray river 

 have also very narrow leafrlobes, with a longer and more slender pod, almost like that ot 

 N. indicum, but not quite ripe. Mitchell's specimen has very young but slender pods, and the 

 whole plant is hoary pubescent, and it may possibly not be correctly referred here. The 

 species is dispersed over iill temperate and subtropical I'cgions of the globe except S. Afnea. 

 It was first published by Leysser as Sis?/mbriu7n jjalvstre^ and a year later by AVithering as 

 S. terre&lre. Brown first transferred it to Nastiirllam with "Withering's specific name, and 

 Pe CandoUe soon afterwards with Leysser's name. Continental botanists now generally 

 adopt N. palustre, DC, as the oldest absolute specific name, whilst British botanists often 

 adopt N. terreslre, Br., as the oldest in the genus. 



. 2. BAKBAEEA, E. Br. 



. Sepals nearly erect, equal. Petals clawed. Pod elongated, flattish-tetra- 

 gonous ; septum transparent ; valA^es keeled or with a prominent midfi^ ; 

 style short ; stigma capitate or 2-lobed. Seeds in a single row, oblong, iiot 

 bordered; the fnniclcs free. — Erect, brancliiug, usually glabrous herbs, an- 

 nual or biennial, the stem angular. Leaves entire or pinnately sinuate or 

 lobed. Plow^ers yellow, sometimes bracteate. Pods usually rigid. 



A genus of few species, dispersed over the temperate regions of the globe, the Australian 

 species being the commonest over the whole range. It differs from Nasturtium chiefly i" 

 the robust rigid habit, the prominent midrib of the valves, and the seeds occupying the whole 

 breadth of the pod so as to appear in a single row. 



1. B. vulgaris, K Br.; DG. Frod. i. 140. Erect, rather rigid, but 

 often slightly branching, 1^ to 2 ft. high. Leaves lyrate-pinnatitid, the lofl^er 

 ones with a large terminal ovate lobe and several smaller ones more or less f 



distinct, the upper ones often reduced to a single orate or oblong tenuinai 

 lobe, usually siuuate or toothed. Flowers bright yellow, the petals twice as 

 long as the calyx. Pods usually numerous, in a long terminal raceme, oi\ 

 slightly spreading pedicels of 3 to 4 lines, in the Australian specimens usuaU) 

 1 to 1^ in. long, the stigma nearly sessile or on a short style rarely exceedn;? 

 i line.— A. Gray, Gen. 111. t. 62 ; F. Mnell, PL Vict. i. 32 ; B. austrahs. 

 Hook. f. Fl. Nov. ZeL i. 14; Fl. Tasm. i. 21. 



Victorfa. Banks of the Mitta ilitta and other rivers of Gii)ps' Land, chiefly at an ele- 

 vation of 1000 to 3000 feet, F. Mueller, 



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