10 CRUCIFERAE. [Lepidium. 
A large and — diffused Order, most abundant in the temperate regions of the 
northern hemisphe 
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Flowers yellow; radicle incumbent : i : : - : 5. Brassica. 
Flowers white; radicle accumbent: 
Pods and seeds turgid . r z ‘ " : i : : 4, Nasturtium. 
Pods and seeds flat . ; ‘ ; : 5 , ‘ ; " 3. Cardamine. 
1. LEPIDIUM, L. 
Sepals short, equal at the base. Petals small or wanting. Stamens 
sometimes ot two. Silicule suborbicular, much flattened contrary to 
e narrow partition, usually notched at the apex, the valves boat-shaped 
and keeled, Wehiboose Seeds 1 in each cell, pendulous. Radicle incum- 
bent or accumbent. — Herbs or undershrubs, with bractless racemes of 
small — flowers. 
About 80 species, spread over the temperate and warm regions of the whole globe 
one species in the islands of the southern Pacific. 
Stame 
Sted: ‘emarginate; teers debates cut; suffruticose . s : 1. L. Oahuense. 
Silicule not em argina ate 
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r few rs at the end of a long naked r : 2. L. arbuscula. 
Leaves noel Sota serrate; racemes many, ouaree yl 
foliose panicle a. 
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ig L. Oahuense Owahiense, Caan: of Soh. aceon: I, 32. — Suftruticose, 
the, b id op, 1—1!/2ft. high, glabrous. Leaves 
membranous, lions of the ak Shataba’ 6 obtuse, coarsely serrate or cut, 
l'/2—3‘ X 8/4‘, tapering into a short petiole, the upper and floral ones 
spathulate, page raa Racemes simple, one terminating each branch, 
when mature 5—7' long, bearing fruit from the very base on horizontal 
pedicels of about 3. Flowers small. Sepals prog conchoid or oblong. 
Petals twice as long, unguiculate, with a round lamina. Stamens 6, shorter 
than the petals. Five glands. Silicule a Hokie aatwets emarginate 
and slightly crested at the top, the very short style not exceeding the 
notch. Cotyledons thick fleshy, accumbent! — Bot. Beech. p. 78. — Walp. 
1. Meyen. p. 250. — Walp. Repert. I, 177. — Gray, Bot. U. 8S. E. 
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Stamens 
. Nat. name: «Anou- 
ear to L. piscidium, padi tom the aoe: Pacific. 
2.1. OnE sp. n. — A shrub, 2—4 ft. high, tortuous, gnarled, 
woody to the last ramifications, which are rohit covered with leaf-scars. 
Leaves crowded at the ends of the b: branches, spathulate, narrowing into 
short petioles, 11/2—2'  1/,—1/3' , faintly denticulate, subcoriaceous, 
glabrous, mes simple, erect, one to three from the apex of a branch, 
