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II. ANA8TATICA. Dwarf stellate-canescent herbs. Flowers minute, white. Pods 

 ovate-spherical, auricled. 



Tribe II. SISXIflBRIEJE. Pods linear. Seeds thickish, mostly oblong, usually 

 in I row. Cotyledons incumbent, or obliquely accumbent. 



* Stigma bUamellate. 



1-2. HESPERIS. 2( Flowers pinkiih-purple, violet, or livid. Eobust herbs. 



13. MALCOLMIA. Flowers white, pink, or yellow. Delicate herbs. 



14. EREMOBIUM. Flowers pink. Confined to sands of coast, and deserts. 



* * Stigma sessile, or with 2, short lobes. 

 t J^either cdnescent, nor clothed with branching, appressed hairs. 



15. SISYMBRIUM. d) Leaves pinnatifid or parted. Flowers yellow, pink, or whits, 



16. ALLIAKIA, @ Leaves ovate-cordate, or reniform. Flowers white. 



17. CONRINGIA. Leaves oblong or elliptical, clasping. Flowers yellow. 



t t Canescent with appressed, branching hairs. 



18. ERYSIMUM. If (2) Flowers yellow, or purple. 



Tribe III. BRASSICE.^:, Pods linear, or oblong (except Savignya 34, and 

 Carrichtera25). Cotyledons conduplicate. 



* Pods linear, or oblong, not beaked. 

 ■f Seeds in one row, wingless. Flowers (in ours) yellow. 



19. BRASSICA. Valves 1-nerved. 



20. SINAPIS Valves 3-nerved. 



+ -f Seeds ntore or less in two rows, wingless. Flowers yellow, white, pinkish-purple, or lilac-pink. 



21. DIPLOTAXIS. If Flowers yellow, white, or pinkish-purple. Calyx equal. Stigma 



truncate or bilobed. 



22. MORICANDIA. 2|! Flowers pinkish-purple. Calyx bisaccate. Stigma conical, erect. 



* ♦ Pods oblong, elliptical, or nearly spherical, beaked. 



23. ERUCA Pods oblong or linear ; beak ensiform. Flowers lilac, or yellow. 



24. SAVIGNYA. Pods elliptical, chartaceous ; beak aristate. Flowers pink. 



2.5. CARRICHTERA. Pods nearly spherical 5 beak chartaceous. Flowers yellowish- 

 white. 



Suborder II. SIIiICUIiOS,aE:. Pods silicles (occasionally oblong, or linear), dehis- 

 cent for their whole length, or nearly to their apex, (or nearly indehiscenf, Coluteocarpus 30). 



Series A. Valves flattened parallel to septum, or not flattened 



Tribe IV. AliYSSINE JE, Pods ovate, elliptical, lenticular, orbiculate, or oblong, 

 Seeds in 1-9 rows, or sometimes 1 in each cell. Cotyledons accumbent. 



* Pods ,01 to .05 long, elliptical, oblong, or linear, sometimes sinuate. 



26. RICOTIA. Pods elliptical or linear, flattened ; seeds 2-8, wingless. Flowers pink, 



27. FAESETIA If Pods elliptical or linear; seeds 00 , winged. Flowers purplish. 



28. FIBIGIA. If Pods orbicular or elliptical, .02 long ; seeds 00 , winged. Flowers yellow. 



29. AUBRIETIA, If Pods elliptical to ovate-oblong, .01 long, pubescent. Leaves scat- 



tered. Flowers pinkish-purple. 



30. COLUTEOCARPUS. 2f Pods ovate, inflated, .02 long, glabrous. Root-leaves resetted. 



Flowers white. 

 * * Pods less than ,01 long, lenticular, elliptical, globular, or orbicular. 



31. KONIGA. 2f Pods orbicular, flattened. Flowers whiie. 



