CHUCIFERAE 23 



Stem 9 to 18 inches high, smooth, glaucous, corymbosely branched above. Leaves 

 1 to 3 inches long. Flowers white. 

 Hub. Gardens. Nat. of Persia. Fl. June. Fr. July. 



2. L. campestre, R. Br. Leaves sagittate, oblong, dentate; silicles 

 winged and notched at apex, scaly-dotted. 



FIELD LEPIDIUM. 



Stem, 6 to 10 inches high, pubescent, branched above. Radical leaves about 2 

 inches long, lyrate-pinnatifid. Flowers white. 

 Hab. Great Valley : rare. Nat. of Europe. Fl. June. Fr. July. 

 f f Cotyledons decumbent (o=). 



3. L,. Virginicum, L. Leaves linear-lanceolate, incised-serrate ; 

 silicles notched at apex, but not winged. 



VIRGINIAN LEPIDIUM. Wild Pepper-grass. 



Stem 9 to 15 inches high, corymbosely branched, roughish-pubescent. Leaves 1 

 to 2 inches long. Racemes cylindric. Flowers 'white, very small; stamens 2. Seeds 

 reddish. 

 Hab. Fields, and road-sides: common. Fl. May. Fr. July. 



40. CAPSEI/L.A. Vent. 

 [Diminutive of Capsula, a capsule ; alluding to the fruit.] 

 Silicle obcordate-cuneate ; valves boat-shaped, not winged. Seeds 

 numerous, oblong. Cotyledons incumbent (o||). 



1. C. Bursa-pdstoris, Moench. Radical leaves mostly pinnatifid, 



stem-leaves sagittate, sessile. 



SHEPHERD' s-PuRSE CAPSELLA. Shepherd's Purse. 



Annual. Stem 3 or 4 to 18 inches high, often branched, more or less hirsute. 

 Radical leaves 2 or 3 to 6 or 8 inches long. Racemes at first corymbose, finally 

 much elongated. Flowers white. 

 Hub. Fields, and road-sides. Nat. of Europe. Fl. April. Fr. June. 



DIVISION III. LOMENTA^CEAE. 



Fruit a silique or silicle, transversely 2- or several-celled, and separable into as many 

 joints. 



TRIBE 7. RAPHA^NEAE. 



Silique indehiscent, partitioned into 1- or few-seeded cells; seeds globose; cotyledons 

 incumbent and conduplicate, as in Tribe. 3. 



41. RAPII'AIVUS, L. 



[Gr. Ra, quickly, Rndphaino, to appear; from its quick germination.] 

 Silique elongated, many-celled by transverse suberose partitions, or 

 by constrictions between the seeds. Seeds in a single series. 



1. R. SATI V VUS, L. Lower leaves lyrate, upper ones ovate-oblong, 

 subhastate; siliques torulose, acuminate. 

 CULTIVATED RAPHANUS. Radish. Garden Radish. 



Annual. Stem 2 or 3 feet high, sparsely hispid. Leaves 8 to 12 or 15 inches long, 

 hispid. Flowers purple and greenish white. 

 Hab. Gardens. Native of China. Fl. June. Fr. July. 



$Sg&~ The following varieties are usually cultivated : 



Sub-species 1. RADICULA, DC. Root tender, red or white. 



Var. a. rotunda. Root subglobose. Turnep Radish. 

 For. b. oblonga. Root fusiform. Common Radish. 



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