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CAPPARIDACEJE. (CAPER FAMILY.) 
yellow turning whitish or purplish, veiny. — Waste places and culti¬ 
vated fields, too thoroughly naturalized in New England, where it is 
a most troublesome weed. 
The most familiar representatives of this order in cultivation, not 
already mentioned, are of the Cress Tribe , the Wall-flower {Cha- 
rdnthus Chciri ), various sorts of Stock ( Malth 'tola annua, &c.); 
Hedge Mustard Tribe , the Rocket (Hdsperis nuilrondlis) ; of the 
Cabbage Tribe , the Cabbage, Cauliflower, Rutabaga, and Tur¬ 
nip (species of Brdssica) ; of the Alyssum Tribe , the Sweet Alyssum 
(.4. mar'itimum), Moon wort or Honesty ( Lunar ia rtdiviva)) °^ t e 
Penny-Cress Tribe , the Candy-tuft (fb&ris umbelldta, &*•)> e 
Radish. Tribe , the Garden Radish itself (Rdphanus saliva) • ^ ® 
Wo ad ( Isiuis tinctdria ) the type of a tribe with indchiscent winge 
or nut-like fruit. 
Order 13. CAPPARIDACEiE. (Caper Family-) 
Herbs (when in northern regions), with cruciform fovsers, 
but 6 or more not tetradynamous stamens, a 1 -celled p°d 
with 2 parietal placenta, and kidney-shaped seeds.— ^ 
as in Crucifer®, but with no partition, often stalked: seeds 
similar, but the embryo coiled. — Properties acrid, and also 
bitter and nauseous. Leaves alternate, mostly compound- 
I. POLANISIA, Raf. 
Sepals 4. Petals 4, rather unequal, with claws. Stamens 8 
32, unequal. Receptacle not elongated. Pod stalkless or neai y 
so above the stamens, linear or oblong, veiny, turgid, ma.n\' see 
ed. — Fetid annuals with glandular or clammy hairs. Leaves digi¬ 
tate. Flowers in leafy racemes. (Name from iro\vs, many , an 
«vMror, unequal, points in which the genus differs in its stamens 
from Cleome.) 
1. P. grraveolens, Raf. Leaves with 3 oblong leaflets; ®^' 
mens about 11, scarcely exceeding the petals; style short. — Gr *' e J. 
banks of lakes from L. Champlain westward. June -Aug* -y" 
ers small: calyx and filaments purplish: petals yellowish-whi te * 
Order 14. RESEDACE^E. (Mignonette Family-) 
Herbs, with asymmetrical 4-7 -merous small flowers, 
a fleshy one-sided hypogynous disk between the petals an 
the (3-40) stamens, bearing the latter. Calyx not dost 
