208 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
A weed in cornfields and cultivated ground, on chalky soil. 
Well established in Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, 
Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, and Cambridgeshire; it also occurs 
as a strageler in several other counties both in England and 
Scotland. 
England, [Scotland]. Annual. Summer, Autumn. 
Stem erect, 4 to 9 inches high, corymbosely branched at the 
summit, and in luxuriant examples also from the base or through- 
out its whole extent. Leaves scattered along the stem, sessile, the 
lower ones narrowly wedge-shaped at the base, generally with 
a few projecting teeth or short lobes on each side. Flowers white 
tinged with pink or purple especially on the sepals, ¢ to % inch 
across. Petals obovate-spatulate, the inner ones twice as long as 
the sepals, the outer ones (the two farthest from the axis) four times 
as long. Fruiting raceme 4 to 2 inches long, with spreading or 
divaricate pedicels about + inch long. Pods about inch long ; 
the wings narrow, except at the apex, where they terminate in 
2 triangular-acuminate lobes slightly inclining outwards at the 
extreme apex. Seeds reddish brown, slightly roughened. Leaves 
deep green, usually ciliated at the edges with short hairs. Stem 
generally with a pubescence of curled hairs arranged in lines. 
Pedicels with similar hairs on their upper side. 
Bitter Candytuft. 
French, [béride Amére. German, Bittere Schleifenblume, Bauernsenf. 
The cultivated Candytuft is familiar to every one in the most humble gardens. 
The seeds have a reputation in herbalists’ doses as bitter and violently purgative. It 
has, however, no very evident qualities to recommend it. 
GENUS XXI—TEERSDALIA. BR. Brown. 
Sepals spreading, equal at the base. Petals unequal, with the 
2 that point away from the stem larger than the others; or equal, 
entire, with short claws. Filaments with an ovate membranous 
basal scalelike appendage on the inside close to the base. Pods 
compressed at right angles to the replum, notched and obcordate 
at the apex, concave above, convex beneath, orbicular-oval or 
obovate ; valves keeled down the back, their keel produced into a 
narrow wing, which is most developed towards the apex ; style very 
short. Seeds 2 in each cell of the pod, roundish, very slightly 
compressed, not margined. 
Small, nearly glabrous annuals. Radical leaves numerous, in a 
rosette, deeply pinnatifid or sub-lyrate; stem leaves few or none, 
