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CRUCIFERJE. (MUSTARD OR RADISH FAMILY".) 
let-purple petals longer than the calyx. — A smooth perennial, 
with ovate-oblong pointed toothed leaves, the lowest sometimes 
lyrate-pinnatifid, and showy flowers in panicled racemes. (Name 
from Mrfgj violet-colored , and auOos, flower.) 
1- I. lu*S|M>ridoides, Torr. & Gray. (Hesperis pinnatifida, 
Michx.) Banks of rivers, W. Penn., Ohio, &c. May, June.— 
Steml°-3P high. Petals 5" long, spatulate. Pods V to nearly 2' 
long, somewhat curved upwards, much longer than the stout spread¬ 
ing pedicels, knotty, rather fleshy : the valves obscurely 1-nerved. 
3. CABDAM1NE, L. Bitter Cress. 
Pod linear, flattened, usually opening elastically ; the valves 
nerveless. Seeds in single rows in each cell; their stalks slender. 
— r lowers white or purple. (From KdpSa/xov, an ancient Greek 
name for Cress.) 
* Biennial: leaves pinnate : flowers small. 
in the L (C ° MMOnBitter Cres s.) Mostly smooth 
leaflet* L , d ’ somet,mes h airy; leaves pinnate with 5-13 
‘ C n afl . C 'f’ ° r b-.c-p.nna.ifid; leaflets of the lower leaves rounded 
^ed; toothed of he uppcr oblong or , inear) often en . re r °"’ 
2. r « *. PrrC ? mal , : leaTC * Pinnate : flowers shoicy. 
Stem a^dincH^to 7 if E ,r° W f^”,’ CocKO °- FLOW “0 
and stalked; of Ihe uppt obwVorT ' ‘° Wer ^ ™ nded 
x dSr^Tf h) * h t; r 
northward, rare. May. et P laces and bogs, Vermont to Michigan 
3- c. beiHaifh,;r , L 'm™ s>mpU or 
(2*-3* hifthWnO rt 1 ’ aisy-leaved Bitter Cress.) Dwarf 
from the “short ^‘ose 
J t ; , sr• a*** 
^ w*™ <w, 
fbrons ; leaves all much alike "to ’ CTee P m Z ™nncrs; root 
heart-shaped at the base oetioled tl S ° mewhat angled, often 
3 leaflets ; po ds linear awl ^ ° WeS * fre 1 uentl y 3-lobed or of 
“inu«e; Jds oval-oblon* S j P°*nted with the style; stigma 
v-oblong. (S Ul. Journal, 42, p. 30.) _ Cool, shaded 
