CRUCIFER®. 209 
oblanceolate or elliptical, attenuated at the base, toothed or entire. 
Flowers white, in corymbs which afterwards elongate into racemes. 
This genus of plants was named after Mr. Robert Teesdale, who was gardener at 
Castle Howard, and author of a Catalogue of Plants growing in that neighbourhood, 
which was published by the Linnzan Society in their “ Transactions.” 
SPECIES I—THESDALIA NUDICAULILS. BR. Brown. 
Puate CL.* 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. II. Zetr. Tab. VI. Fig. 4189. 
T. Iberis, D.C. Syst. Vol. II. p. 392. Boreau, Fl. du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. II. 
p. 59. 
Iberis nudicaulis, Zinn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 327. 
Flowers radiant, with the 2 petals farthest from the axis larger 
than the others. Stamens 6. 
On gravelly commons and waste places, and in hedge-banks. 
Not uncommon in England, but rather rare in Scotland, except near 
Aberdeen; the county of Moray and the neighbourhood of Glasgow 
being its northern limit, so far as is known. 
England, Scotland. Annual. Spring, Summer. 
Stem solitary, erect, or one erect in the middle and several 
ascending ones round it, 3 to 18 inches high. Jadical leaves very 
numerous, spreading into a rosette, 1 to 2 inches long, oblanceolate, 
stalked, deeply pinnatifid with a few short rounded lobes projecting 
at right angles to the petiole, and a rather large terminal lobe which 
is often again divided into 3 smaller lobes. Stem leaves few, only 
produced on the lateral stems, the one from the centre of the rosette 
being leafless; lowest stem leaves similar to the radical ones, but 
less deeply pinnatifid; upper ones oblanceolate, nearly or quite 
entire. Flowers about 3!; inch across, white. Petals oblanceolate, 
the inner ones slightly exceeding the sepals, the outer ones twice as 
long. Fruiting raceme 2 to 9 inches long, with the pedicels + to 
2 inch long, spreading or divaricate. Pod about ; inch long by 
4 inch broad, slightly enlarged towards the apex, where it is obcor- 
date; wing extremely narrow; style not half the length of the 
apical notch. Seeds pale reddish brown, finely punctured. Plant 
deep greyish green, almost or quite glabrous. 
Shepherd’s Cress. 
French, Zéesdalie Irrégulizre. German, Kahlstengelige Teesdalee. 
* The Plate is E. B. 327, with a pod added by Mr. J. E. Sowerby. 
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