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flowering between June anil August, and is a 

 herbaceous biennial. 



Brassiin Cfifirant/iiis, \'ill. — The habitat of this 

 plant is dry places. The plant has the same 

 habit as the Isle of Man Cabbage. The stem is 

 erect, leafy below, hairy below, branched. The 

 leaves are hairy. In other respects the plant 

 resembles B. monensis. It is 1-3 ft. high, flower- 

 ing from June to .-\ugust, and is a herbaceous 

 biennial. 



Stalked Scurvy Grass (Cochlearia danica, L.). 

 — The habitat of this plant is the sca-coasi, sandy 

 and muddy shores. The plant has the loose rosette 

 habit. The lower stem-leaves are stalked, with 

 3-5 lobes, the upper leaves with short stalks, clasp- 

 ing, lobed. The radical leaves are triangular, 

 heart-shaped, lobed, the stalks long, shortened 

 farther from the root. The flowers are white, 

 with small petals. The pods or silicules are egg- 

 shaped, j-celled, with 4-6 seeds in each cell. The 

 seeds are flattened at the side. The style is 

 short. The plant is 1-12 in. in height, and flowers 

 between April and August, being a herbaceous 

 biennial. 



Northern Scurvy Grass (Cochlearia groenlan- 

 dictt, L. = C. alpina, Wats.). — The habitat of this 

 plant is mountains, seashores on the Scotch coast. 

 The plant has more or less the rosette habit. The 

 plant is small, tufted, fleshy. The radical leaves 

 are numerous, fleshy, rounded to kidney-shaped, 

 entire, stalkless. The upper stem -leaves are 

 stalkless or shortly-stalked, elliptic, lance-shaped, 

 or egg-shaped, spoon-shaped. The pod is more 

 or less rounded, rhomboid to oblong. The style 

 is short. The plant is 2-6 in. in height, flowering 

 from June to August, and is a herbaceous biennial. 



Dittander (ic/>»V/:H/H lalifolium, L.).^The habi- 

 tat of this plant is salt marshes where native, and 

 where introduced, old castles, &c. The habit is 

 erect. The stem is branched. The plant is hair- 

 less, bluish -green. The rootstock is long, and 

 the plant is stoloniferous. The radical leaves are 

 long-stalked, oblong, coarsely-toothed. The stem- 

 leaves are more or less stalkless, narrower, oval 

 to lance-shaped, toothed or entire. The flowers 

 are creamy-white, small, in short or compound, 

 panicled, dense corymbs, with bracts. The pods 

 are egg-shaped, down}', entire, on short stalks, 

 the valves not winged. The style is very small. 

 The plant is 2-4 ft. in height. It flowers in July 

 and .August, and is a herbaceous perennial. 



Sea Radish (Raphanus maritimus, Sm. ). — The 

 habitat of this plant is sandy, rocky shores, sea- 

 coasts. The habit is .is in Jointed Charlock, of 

 which it may be regarded as the wild form, as the 

 former is the wild form in turn of the cultivated 

 R. sttlivus. The plant is more hairy. The root 

 is thick. The radical leaves are interruptedly 

 pinnate. The leaf-segments are numerous, close, 

 overlapping, horizontal, or reversed, the alternate 

 smaller. The flowers are smaller also, yellow, 

 rarely white. The pod is jointed or moniliform 

 with fewer joints, longer than the short beak, 

 deeply constricted, the joints ribbed. The beak is 

 slender, awl-like. The plant is 1-4 ft. high, flower- 



ing between June and August, and is a liei baceous 

 biennial. 



Order Fr-xxkeniace^e 



Sea Heath (Fmnkenia lavis, L.). — The habitat 

 of this plant is salt marshes, ballast hills. The 

 plant has the shrub habit. The stems are creep- 

 ing, slightly downy, prostrate, wiry. The leaves 

 are in whorls or clusters, with rollcd-b.ack mar- 

 gins, adapted to dry conditions, linear- oblong, 

 hairless (hence licvis), or fringed with hairs at the 

 base. The flowers are small, rose colour, terminal, 

 or in the forks stalkless. The calyx is slightly 

 hairy between the prominent angles, the sepals 

 forming a tubular calyx with 4-5 sepals. The 

 petals are 4-5, the claws long, the lamina: spread- 

 ing. The capsule is 3-sided, the seeds are small, 

 and the embryo is straight, surrounded by albu- 

 men. The plant is creeping. It flowers between 

 June and September. The plant is a herbaceous 

 or shrubby perennial. 



Order Resedace.-e 



White Rocket (Reseda alba, L.).— This plant 

 occurs by roadsides, in garden rubbish-heaps, and 

 near the seashore, in waste, sandy places. The 

 habit is erect. The stem is shrubby below. The 

 leaves have the lobes each side of a common stalk, 

 wavy, bluish-green, the lobes linear, acute, entire. 

 The flowers are white, with 6 sepals, lincar-lance- 

 shaped, with 6 nearly equal petals, 3fid, longer 

 than the calyx, with a flower-stalk not so long as 

 the latter. There are 4 stigmas, 12-14 stamens. 

 The fruit is oblong, wrinkled. The seeds are 

 rough, kidney-shaped. The plant is 1-2 ft. high, 

 flowering in July and August, and is a herbaceous 

 biennial. 



Order Violace^ 



Viola cur/isii, Forst. — The habitat of this violet 

 is sandy shores and dunes. The habit is creeping. 

 There is no rootstock. The stems are rough, 

 angular, and the plant is branched, tufted, stolon- 

 iferous. The lower part of the stipule is length- 

 ened, separating the lateral lobes. The petals 

 are not much longer than the sepals, spreading, 

 blue, purple, or jcllow. The capsule is 3-angIed. 

 The plant is 1-5 in. high, flowering between May 

 and July, and is a herbaceous perennial. 



Order Caryophvllace/E 



Seaside Mouse -ear (Ceras/ium lelraiidrum, 

 Curt.). — The habitat of this plant is sandy and 

 waste places, usually near the sea, pastures, walls, 

 &c. The habit is branched. The plant is clammy. 

 The stems are cymose from the base. The leaves 

 are egg-shaped, oblong, the radical leaves in- 

 versely egg-shaped to lance-shaped, the stem- 

 leaves broader upwards. The bracts are herba- 

 ceous, broad, oval, acute, blunt-pointed, leaflike. 

 The sepals .ire clammy, 4-5, lance-shaped, acute, 

 the tips and margins narrowly membranous, glan- 

 dular. The petals are notched, with branched 



