12 CRUCIFERAE, (Nasturtium. 
A large genus of herbaceous plants, sag spread over the temperate and cold regions - 
f both in res. C. sarmentosa, Forst., is a common plant in many islands of the 
Southeni P ‘acific. 
Tl. C. hirsuta, ZT. — DC. Prod. I, 152. — An annual, !/2—1 ft. high, 
erect, branching at the base, generally glabrous in the Hawaiian plants. 
Lower leaves pinnate with 5—9 rounded, angular or lobed, stalked leaflets, 
the terminal one larger and generally subcordate; the leaflets of the upper 
leaves with a cuneate base. Flowers small, the white petals twice as 
long as the calyx. Pedicels and pods al pend Pron the latter 
1/2—1‘ long. Style shorter than the width of t 
A common weed in gardens, and carried into open woods wherever cattle penetrate. 
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The plant probably arrived within the first decades of the present century, for it 
was cotete for the first time (in Waimea, rages Figs. f the Sch msenabe of the U.S. E. E.; 
presents itself under three distinct form ption, which agrees 
ieleianty well with the common European jee applies to the garden weed as it appears 
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raceme spreading as in C. sylvatica, Lk. In pla nits again from Haleakala, Maui (6000 ft. 
above the sea), the stem por Fes it ey, the leaflets even mf beige lower faves are all 
cuneate at the base, while of th re oblong and decurrent. 
4, NASTURTIUM, R.Br. 
Pod a short silique, oblong-linear, often curved, the valves convex, 
with the midrib scarcely visible, dehiscent. Seeds hopid. not margined, 
in 2 regular rows in each cell. Radicle accumbent. — Aquatic or marsh 
plants, with white or yeline flowers and pinnate or pinnatifid leaves, 
usually glabrous. 
A small, widely spread genus. 
Tl. N. officinale, R.Br. — Perennial. Stems spreading and rooting. 
Leaves pinnate with 3—1i1 roundish or oblong, nearly entire pinnas. 
Petals small, white, twice the length of the calyx. Anthers yellow. Pods 
linear, 6—8” Jo: em on slender spreading pedicels. 
The common Water-Cress, of European origin, fills watercourses in the neighborhood 
of Sonebiti and i Senate but Pahang rarely. 
5. BRASSICA, L. 
Benn linear, terete or quadrangular, the valves I-nerved, with anasto- 
osing veins, dehiscent. Seeds globose, in one row. Cotyledons incum- 
raha folded round the radicle. — Annual or biennial herbs, with mostly 
yellow flowers. 
A considerable genus of the Old World, chiefly Mediterranean. 
Tl. B. nigra, Koch. — An erect annual, 1—2 ft. va rough-hispid below. 
Leaves petiolate, the lower lyrate or lobed, the upper entire. Inflorescence 
flat corymbose at first. Sepals spreading. Petals suis Pedicels and 
