Lepidium CRUCIFER^ 243 



Hitchc. in Rep. Miss. Bot. Gard. 58 ; 0. E. Schulz in Urb. Symh. 

 Ant. Hi. 494; Urb. Symb. Ant. iv. 255; Tliell. Monogr. 222; 

 Descourt. Fl. Ant. i. 193, t. 41. Iberis humilior annua &c. 

 Sloane Cat. 80 & Hist. i. 195, /. 123, /. 3. Lepidium erectum 

 &c. Browne Hist. Jam. 272. (Fig. 101.) Original specimens 

 from Hortus Cliffortianus & in Herb. Gronovius in Herb. 

 Mas. Brit. 



In fl. all the year ; " in most of the inland places," Sloane Herb. iii. 

 110 ! Houstoun I Wright ! Prior ; Morris ! hills near Kingston, Hansen ; 

 Gordon Town, Eggers ; also Ball\ Resource, 3G00 ft., Harrisl Fl. Jam. 

 6914; Porus, C. O. Lloyd; Blue Mts., EotJirock. — Bermuda, Bahamas, 

 Cuba, Hispaniola, Porto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Cruz, St. Jan, St. Bartho- 

 lomew, St. Eustatius, Nevis, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Martinique, St. Vincent, 

 Barbados, Tobago, N. America, from Canada to Texas ; introduced into 

 Europe. 



Stem 1-lJ ft. high. Leaves mostly oblanceolate or linear, serrate, the 

 lowest often deeply cut or even pinnate, the highest minutely serrate or 

 entire, lowest 4-10 cm. 1., middle 2-4 cm. 1. Pedicel, flowering 2-5- 

 3 mm. 1., fruiting 4-5 mm. 1. Flowers about 1 mm. 1. Silicula narrowly 

 winged at the apex. Seeds about 2 mm. 1., 1 mm. br. Cotyledons 

 accumbent. 



" Supplies the place of cress in salads" (Sloane). 



[L. sativum L. Sp. PI. 644 (1753); leaves mostly pinnate or 

 deeply cut ; petals half as long again as the sepals ; stamens 6 ; 

 silicula about 6 mm. 1. ; fruiting pedicels erect. — Mac/. Jam. i. 

 29 ; Griseb. loc. cit. ; 0. E. Sclitdz torn. cit. 496 ; Thell. Monogr. 

 121 ; Descourt. torn. cit. t. 42. Type in Herb. Linn. 



Macfadyen.—S. W. Asia and N. E. Africa, now cultivated and 

 spontaneous all over the world. 



Stem ^-2 ft. high. Leaves, lower 3-8 cm. 1., upper 8-4 cm. 1. Pedicels 

 flowering 1-1-5 mm. 1., fruiting 2-3 mm. 1. Flowers l"5-2 mm. 1. 

 Silicula broadly winged, especially near the apex. Cotyledons incumbent. 



" It is a favourite salad, and has the reputation of being antiscorbutic 

 and antiphthisical " (Macfadyen).] 



5. CORONOPUS Gaertn. 



Herbs much branched from the base, diffuse. Leaves mostly 

 pinnatitid. Racemes short, opposite the leaves. Flowers very 

 small, white. Sepals short, equal at the base. Petals entire or 

 wanting. Stamens 6 and tetradynamous, or 4 (the shorter 

 abortive), or 2. Silicula didymous, broader than long, valves sub- 

 globose, indehiscent. Seeds solitary in each cell. Cotyledons 

 long, linear, curved back above their base, thus appearing like 

 4 in transverse section. Wart-cress. 



Species 12, natives mostly of subtropical, also of temperate 

 regions. 



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