Pachycladon.| CRUCIFERS. oT 
slightly longer than them, 2-5-flowered. Petals obovate-spathu- 
late, almost twice as long as the sepals. Pods on short stout 
pedicels, 1-4in. long, laterally compressed; valves keeled, not 
winged. Seeds 3-65 in each cell, obovoid, red-brown.—lIc. Plant. t. 
1009; Buch. in Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv. (1882) t. 24, f. 1; Kuork, 
Students’ Fl. 32. Braya novee-zealandiz, Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. 
Fil. 13. 
SoutH Isnanp: Otago—Mount Alta, Hector and Buchanan! Mount 
St. Bathan’s, Mount Pisa, Mount Kyeburn, Mount Cardrona, &c., Petrie ! 
4500-6500 ft. 
A very singular plant. Mr. Buchanan’s P. glabra (Trans. N.Z. Inst. xiv. 
t. 24, f. 2)is a form with rather larger and almost glabrous leaves, with sharply 
pointed ascending lobes. It passes insensibly into the ordinary state. 
3. CAPSELLA, Medicus. 
Annual or rarely perennial branched herbs, of small size and 
weak habit, glabrous or pilose. Radical leaves entire or pinnati- 
tid. Flowers small, white, racemed. Sepals spreading, equal at 
the base. Petals short. Pods oblong, ovoid, or obcordate, laterally 
compressed ; valves convex or boat-shaped; septum thin; style 
short. Seeds numerous, in 2 rows. Cotyledons incumbent. 
A small genus, scattered over the temperate regions of both hemispheres. 
1. C. procumbens, Fries Novit. Fl. Swec. Mant. 1. 14.—Slender, 
perfectly glabrous. Stems numerous from the root, 2-6 in. long, 
decumbent at the base, ascending at the tips. Leaves 4+—?in. 
long; lower ovate, oblong, or spathulate, entire or lobed or irregu- 
larly pinnatifid, petioled; upper smaller, more sessile, often 
entire. Flowers white, very small. Racemes elongating in fruit ; 
pedicels filiform, spreading. Pod ovoid, 1-Lin. long; valves boat- 
shaped. Seeds 10-15 in each cell. Benth. Fl. Austral. 1. 81. 
C. elliptica, C. A. Mey. nm Ledeb. Fl. Alt. iii. 199; Kirk, Stu- 
dents’ Fl. 33. 
SourH Istanp: Otago—On cliffs exposed to sea-spray: Oamaru; Wai- 
kouaiti; near Dunedin; Petrie! Septem ber—October. 
A widely distributed plant, found in Europe, western and central Asia, 
north-west and South America, and Australia. 
C. bursa-pastoris, Moench, the common ‘“‘ Shepherd’s Purse,” is now esta- 
blished as a weed in most parts of the colony. It is an erect annual, with 
spreading pinnatifid radical leaves and triangular-cuneate or obcordate pods, 
arranged in a long lax raceme. 
6. LEPIDIUM,, Linn. 
Erect or spreading, glabrous or pubescent, annual or perennial 
herbs, sometimes almost shrubby. Leaves entire or divided. 
Flowers small, white, ebracteate. Sepals short, equal at the base. 
Petals short, equal, sometimes wanting. Stamens often reduced to 
4 or2. Pods variable, oblong, ovate, obcordate, or orbicular, much 
