200 SUMMER FLOWERS. 



coarsely toothed and stalked, the upper ones lanceolate, with 

 prominent auricles ; flowers small, yellow ; pods hanging from 

 slender pedicels, about 7-8 lines long and 2—2^ broad, obovate 

 or oblong, tapering to the base. — Cultivated fields, but scarcely 

 naturalized. Fl. July. 



(35) Iberis. Candytuft. 



I. amara : annual ; stem erect, -^^-1 foot high, with a few 

 erect branches, forming a terminal flat corymb ; leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, with a few coarse teeth ; flowers white ; pod nearly 

 orbicular, the long style projecting from the notch at the top. 

 — Chalky cornfields. Fl. July. 



(36) Lepidium. Cress. 



* Pods winged at top. 



L. campestre : annual ; stem about a foot high, hoary with 

 minute hairs, erect or nearly so, branched in the upper part ; 

 leaves stalked, oblong, entire or pinnatifid, with a large ter- 

 minal lobe, the upper ones oblong or lanceolate, clasping the 

 stem with short pointed auricles; flowers very small, white; 

 pods numerous, on spreading pedicels, broadly ovate, nearly 

 surrounded by the wing, slightly notched at the top, with a 

 short, often very minute style. — Mithridate Pepperwort. — 

 Cultivated and waste places. Fl. July. 



L. Smithii is very near this, but more or less perennial, 

 the stems shorter and decumbent at the base; the foliage 

 more hairy, the flowers not quite so small, and the style pro- 

 minent. 



** Pods not ivinged. 



L. latifolium : stems stout, erect, two feet or more in height, 

 glabrous, much branched in the upper part ; leaves large, ovate. 



