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flowers yellowish-white, stem-leaves in whorls of three ; 

 Tirol. D. digitata^ Lam. ; flowers pink or lilac, leaves 

 alternate, lower with 3, upper with 5 segments ; Switzer- 

 land, Tirol, Pyrenees. D. alternifolia, Hausm. ; flowers 

 yellowish-white, leaves alternate, with 3 segments ; Tirol, 

 Styria. D. intermedia^ Sond. ; flowers lilac or white, 

 leaves with 5 segments ; Southern Tirol, rare. D. bulbi- 

 fera^ L., Coralwort ; flowers Hlac or white, lower leaves 

 pinnatifid, upper undivided, with axillary bulbs ; Switzer- 

 land, Dauphiny. D. polyphylla, W. & K. ; flowers 

 yellowish-white, 7-14, all the leaves pinnatifid ; rare ; 

 Switzerland, Carinthia. D. pinnata^ Lam. ; flowers white 

 or hlac, 3-7, all the leaves pinnatifid; Switzerland, 

 Pyrenees. 



Tribe SiSYMBRlE/E. — Seed-vessel elongated, seeds 

 usually in one row ; radicle incumbent, straight, plano- 

 convex; flowers white, yellow, or lilac. Genera 8-12. 



8. Sisymbrium, L. 



Plant glabrous or with simple spreading hairs ; leaves 

 usually toothed or pinnatifid; flowers in loose racemes, 

 usually yellow. Not alpine. 



The following British species occur in corresponding 

 situations in Switzerland : — 5. Thaliana, Koch, with 

 very small white, and 5. Alliaria, Scop., Jack-by-the- 

 hedge, Sauce-alone, with larger white flowers; 5. offi- 

 cinale^ Scop., Hedge Mustard, with very small yellow, 

 and 5. Irio, L., and 5. Sophia^ L., with larger yellow 

 flowers. Also the following in Southern Switzerland : — 

 Flowers yellow: — 5. austriacum, Jacq., leaves runcinate; 



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