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^ 12. CAPSELLA. Ma^nch. 



(Microlepidiinn, F. MuelL) 



Sepals spreading, equal at the base. Petals short. Pod ovoid or oblong, 

 laterally compressed or nearly terete, the valves very turgid or boat-shopcd, 

 Keeled, the septum thin ; style short or stigma sessile. Seeds several, in 2 

 j'o^\s, not bordered, on free funiclcs ; cotyledons incnmbent or rarely accuui- 

 ^ent. Small or weak annuals. Kadical leaves rosulate, entire or lobed. 

 itacemcs slender, mth small white flowers. 



A siLall genus dispersed over the temperate regions of both the northrrn and southern 

 emispheres. Two of the followiag species are exclusively Australian. The genus is nearly 

 a led to Bleanodia, but the pod is shorter and more compressed laterally, the septum being 

 usually narrower than the transverse diameter. 



^ od elliptical or ovoid, not much compressed, obtuse or acute at the 

 top. ^ 



Plant glabrous. Pod many-seeded, the septum about 3 times as 



long as broad , . 1. C. jtrocumbevs, 



Plant minutely pubescent. Pod few-seeded, the septum not twice 



as long as broad , " 3. (7. australis. 



laterally eomprcssed, cuucate or ovate, emarginate or broadly 



truncate at the top. 

 ^lant much branched, of 1 to 2 in. Pod oval oblong, emardnate, 



With rounded lobes and few seeds Z, C.pUosnIa. 



*^^a"t Lttle branched,^ to 1^ ft. Pod cuaeate-triangular, with 



numerons seeds ^ CSffrsa-pastoris {p.^2), 



'' C. procumbens, FrieSy NoviL FL Si(ec. Mani. i. 14. A small, 

 Slender, glahrons, decumbent, and much-branched annual, seldom exceeding 

 ' m., and often not 2 in. high. Leaves from lanceolate to nearly ovate, the 

 o^ver ones pctiohite, pinnatiiid or toothed, rarely exceeding 1 in., the upper 

 ^nes smaller, often linear and entire. Flowers white, veiy smal], the petals 

 ;^ ™y exceeding the calyx. Fruiting racemes loose, nith filiform spreading 

 Fuicels of 2 to 4 lines. Pod ovoid, \\ to 2 lines long, the ralves veiy 

 ^^nvex and lioat-shaped, the septum 3 or 4 times as long as broad and 

 considerably nan*ower than the transverse diameter of the fruit Seeds 

 '}f'fl 10 to 12 or sometimes more in each cell.-Keichb. Tc. Fl. Genn. 

 4i rj' ^^tchinna procumbens, K. Br, DC. Syst. Yeg. ii. 390; Hoolc. 



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asmauia. Blanlcman's Eiver, on (lie road to Hobarton, Gmn. r ■ %, „ 



Bav ff T.**"^"^- Ncai- St. Vinceut's Gulf and Lake Alexandrina, F. Mneller ; Guichca 



A cmf*'*^**"*^'*' Drummond, Uh Coll. n. 129. 

 Mr.t. ' ? P'^it iu the northern hemisphere, espe 



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2. C australis, ffooL / A small annual, very near C. procH,,lms, 

 Z^'T ^ ^'^'''^y on]y. It is usually still smaller, and sprinkled with a 

 ""»^'te stellate pubescence. Foliage the same. Flowers rather larger. Pod 



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