4. CRUCIFER^. 



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cised segments ; petals shorter than sepals, scmietimes none ; 

 fruitino; raceme longer than the leaf, witli slender, spread- 

 ing pedicels longer than the pod, which is only 2 mm. 

 (yV in.) broad, notched at 

 summit and base, and consists 

 of 2 ovoid, 1-seeded valves or 

 nutlets, wrinkled and separating 

 when ripe. .S'. dhhjma. Pers. 

 (1807). 



AVaste places. — Sept. - Jan. — 

 Temperate South America ; 

 naturalised in Europe. 



2. S. Coronopus, Poiret. 

 Glabrous, light-green, prostrate 

 annual ; leaves resembling those 

 of the preceding; petals longer 

 than sepals ; fruiting raceme 

 shorter than the leaf, with thick, 

 very short pedicels; pod 4 mm. 

 broad, notched at base and 

 rounded at summit, deeply 

 wrinkled ; valves usually remain- 

 ing united when ripe. 



Roadsides, Mount Gambier. - 

 — Almost cosmopoli- 



^^.^'' 



"^i'^ 



Mm^^ 



Oct. - Feb. 

 tan. 



(From 



10 



^/"'/' 



///r/i. 



Cakile maritima. 



Senebiera pinnatifida. 



C.XKiLE, Adanson. 



the Arabic name of the plant.) 



1. Cakile maritima, Scop. 

 ^'i'(; Backet. Maritime glabrous 

 annual, with procumbent bran- 

 ches from near the base ; leaves 

 fleshy, oblanceolate, entire or 

 with a few distant blunt teeth ; 

 flowers pink, rather large; sepals 

 erect, 2 lateral ones pouched at 

 base : fruiting pedicels thick, as 

 long as the lower joint of the pod, 

 which is hard, indehiscent, and 

 consists of 2 joints, the upper one 

 mitre-shaped, deciduous, with 1 

 erect seed, the lower one oblong, 

 persistant, with 2 small teeth on 

 the truncate summit, and 1 

 hanging seed, or sometimes 

 .sterile ; both joints 3-nerved on 

 each side ; cotyledons accumbent. 



Sea-coast near Adelaide and on 

 Kangaroo Island. Accepted by 

 some botanists as native, but not 



