60 BRITISH BOTANY. 



leaflets and entire or toothed lobes ; upper leaves sessile, linear, 

 entire. Pedicels not longer than the fruit. Fruit oblong, round- 

 ish, notched, broadly winged above. 



Annual; July. Partially naturalized on waste places where 

 the refuse of gardens has been thrown. The flowers vary between 

 Avhite, pink, and lilac. 



Capsella, Vent. — Annual, more or less pubescent plants, with 

 erect stems, and lyrate-pinnatifid or sometimes pinnate leaves 

 (rarely entire) . Sepals erect, not enlarged at the base. Stamens 

 without appendages. Pouch obcordate-triangular, compressed 

 perpendicularly to the partition, terminated by the short style ; 

 valves keeled, not winged ; cells many- seeded. Seeds oblong, 

 compressed. 



C. Bursa-pastoris, DC. Shepherd's Purse. — e.b. 1485. 



L.B.S. 63. 



A. 18. C. 82. Lat. 50-61°. Alt. 0-350 yds. Tern. 52-43°. 



Stems erect, glabrous or pubescent below, rigid, solitary or 

 several, 8-1.2 inches high, round, leafy. Root-leaves in a rosette, 

 usually pinnatifid or lyrate-pinnatifid, with triangular, or oblong, 

 or linear, entire or toothed lobes, hairy ; upper leaves elongate, 

 usually entire, but occasionally toothed, sagittate and clasping at 

 the base, with elongate, pointed lobes. Pouches in very long 

 clusters. 



Everywhere in the vicinity of human abodes, waysides, and 

 other places. Annual. It is in flower during nearly the whole 

 year. 



Sub-var. integrifolia. All the leaves entire. — A variety, with 

 doubly pinnatifid leaves and acute segments, also with dense, 

 abortive clusters, and very large, spreading, fertile pouches, was 

 observed on the Walton hills, above the church of Clent, neai- 

 Stourbridge. 



SuBULARiA, Lin. — Small aquatic plants. Sepals equal, uni- 

 form. Filaments without appendages. Pouch ovate-oblong or 

 elliptic-oblong, compressed transversely (laterally compressed), 

 entire; valves concave (boat-shaped), not keeled; partition mem- 

 branous, crossing the pouch where the diameter is least. Seeds 

 ovate, four in each cell. 



S. aquatica, Lin. Awl-wort. — e.b. 732. l.b.s. 74. 



A. 4. CIO. Lat. 5.3-59°. Alt. P-700 vds. Tern. 47-39°. 



