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•t- -t- Pod linear (or oblong or even globular in n. 11). 

 *♦ Cotj'ledons accumbent. 



11. Nasturtium. Pod often short; valves strongly convex, nerveless. Seeds small, in 



2 rows in each cell. Flowers yellow or white. 



12. Barbarea. Pod somewhat 4-sided ; valves strongly 1-nerved. Seeds in 1 row. Flowers 



yellow. 



++ ++ Cotyledons incumbent or partially so. 



13. Hesperis. Pod terete, elongated ; stigma-lobes narrow, erect. Flowers large, purple. 



14. Erysimum. Pod 4-sided ; valves strongly l-nerved ; stigma broadly 2-lobed. Pu 



liescence of appressed 2-3-parted hairs. Flowers yellow. 

 25. Sisymbrium. Pod angled or teretish ; valves 1-3-nerved; stigma small. Flowers 

 yellow or white, small. 



16. Thelypodium. Pod teretish ; valves 1-nerved ; stigma entire. Cotyledons ob- 



liquely incumbent. Flowers rose-color. Leaves auricled. 



++ -H- ++ Cotyledons conduplicate. 



17. Brassica. Pod beaked or pointed beyond the end of the valves, or tipped with a 



rigid style, nearly terete, or 4-sided. Flowers yellow or whitish. 



* * Pod short ; the boat-shaped valves conduplicate or much flattened contrary to the 

 narrow partition. Flowers white. 



18. Capsella. Pod many-seeded, obcoi-date-triangular, wingless. Cotyledons incumbent. 



19. Thlaspi. Pod several-seeded, obovate or obcordate, winged. Cotyledons accumbent. 



20. L.epiclium. Pod 2-seeded, flat, scale-shaped. Cotyledons incumbent or accumbent. 



21. Senebiera. Pod 2-seeded, didymous ; the valves rugose, separating at maturity from 



the little partition as 2 closed 1-seeded nutlets. Cotyledons incumbent, narrow. 



SERIES II. Pods inclehiscent, continuous or transversely jointed ; joints 



l<-eUed. 



22. Cakile. Pod .short, 2-jointed ; joints 1-seeded. Cotyledons plane, accumbent. 



23 Raphanus* Pod elongated, several-seeded, continuous, or constricted between the 

 seeds and moniliform. Cotyledons conduplicate. 



1. SELENIA, Nutt. 



Pod large, oblong-elliptical, flat ; the valves nerveless. Seeds in 2 rows in 

 each cell, rounded, broadly winged ; cotyledons accumbent; radicle short. — 

 A low annual, with once or twice pinnatifid leaves and leafy-bracteate racemes 

 of yellow flowers. (Xame from (T^\-i}v'n, the moon, with allusion to Lunaria, 

 which it somewhat resembles in its pods.) 



1. S. aurea, Xutt. Lobes of the simply pinnatifid leaves entire or foothed ; 

 pod h' long, on elongated spreading pedicels, beaked by the long slender style. 

 — Mo. and Kan. to Tex. 



2. LEAVENWORTHIA, Torr. 



Pod broadly linear or oblong, flat ; the valves nerveless, but minutely re- 

 ticulate-veined. Seeds in a single row in each cell, flat, surrounded by a thick 

 wing. Embryo straight ! or the short radicle only slightly bent in the direc- 

 tion which if continued would make the orbicular cotyledons accumbent. — 

 Little winter annuals, glabrous and often stemless, with lyrate leaves and short 

 I -few-flowered scape-like peduncles. (Named in honor of the late ^f. C. 

 Leacenworth.) 



L Ij. Michauxii, Torr. vScapes 2-6' high; leaf-lobes usually numer- 

 ous (7-15); netals purplish or nearly white with a yellowish base, obtuse.' 



