CLASS XV. ORDER 1. ) KONIGA. 885 



1. I.ama'ra, Linn. (Fig. 1021.) Bitter Candy-tuft. Stem herba- 

 ceous; leaves smooth, oblong, wedge-shaped, one to three toothed on 

 each side ; silicula sub-orbicular, emarginate, the lobes triangular, 

 acute. 



English Botany, t. 52.— English Flora, vol. iii. p. 181.— Hooker, 

 British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 247.— Lindley, Synopsis, p. 28. 



Root small, tapering, with branched fibres. Stems several, spread- 

 ing, branched and leafy, smooth, round. Leaves alternate, dark green, 

 smooth, oblong, wedge-shaped, entire, or mostly with one or two teeth 

 on each side. Jnjiorescence a terminal sub-corymbose many flowered 

 raceme, becoming elongated. Calyx of four ovate concave pieces, the 

 two outer ones largest. Petals four, white, ovate, with short narrow 

 claws, the two outer ones much larger than the other two. Stamens 

 with awl-shaped simple filaments and roundish yellow anthers. Fruit 

 a sub-orbicular silicula, notched with a short style between the two 

 acute lubes, the valves keeled, and with a narrow sub-membranous 

 wing, two celled, with a solitary pendulous ovate brown seed in each 

 cell. 



Habitat. —Chalk fields, rare ; a doubtful native, apparently wild in 

 Oxfordshire and Berkshire. 



Annual; flowering in July. 



Of this genus about twenty-six species are known; many of them 

 are pretty ornamental hardy border flowers, very easy of cultivation, 

 and continue in flower a considerable time. 



GENUS XI. KO'NIGA.— Adans. Koniya, 

 Nat. Ord. CRUcrr'EBiE. Juss. 



Gen. Char. Silicula sub-ovate, with nearly plane valves, two celled, 



one seeded. Seeds mostly with a margin. Cotyledons accnmhent. 



(e Fig. 1, p. 871.) — Ca/ya; paient. Petals enihe. Hypogijnous 



glands, eight. Filaments simple. — Name in honour of Mr. 



Koniffj of the British Museum. 



1. K. mariti'ma, Br. (Fig. 1022.) Sea side Koniga, or siveet 



Alyssum. Stems numerous, from a shrubby base ; leaves lanceolate, 



acute, entire, hoary. 



Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. v ^^^--Alyssum maritimum, 

 Willd.— English Botany, 1. 1729.— De Cand. Prod. 1, p. 164.— English 

 Flora, vol. iii. p. 162.-G'/?/ce.-Lindley, Synopsis, p. 26.—Alyssvm 

 minimum, and Clypeola maritima, Linn. 



Root stout, branched, woody. Stems several, woody at the base, 

 branched and spreading, hoary, with close pressed pubescence. 

 Leaves numerous, scattered, lanceolate, acute, tapering into a foot- 

 stalk, hoary, with close pressed pubescence. Inflorescence a terminal 



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