60 : CRUCIFERA. CAMELINA. 
SUBULARIA. 
hairs; root single, not strongly thickened: stems several, spreading- 
ascending simple or branched leafy, 2-10 inches high, terete, slender wiry: 
leaves linear- bien or spatulate, subentire to shallowly sinuate pinnatifid, 
chiefly basal, the cauline rather small and remote: flowers small, white or 
purplish : pods linear, terete, more or less torulose, erect, 5-9 lines long ; 
‘cabak ety nerveless. Alaska to Oregon and Willoughby Mountain 
ermont. : 
25 CAMELINA Crantz Fl, Aust. i, 17. 
Erect annuals with sagittate-clasping entire or dentate to pin- 
natifid leaves and pale yellow or white flowers. Sepals mn 
oblong, obtuse thin-margined, subequal at base, more or less ¢ 
ored, often villous. Petals spatulate or obovate, unguiculate. 
Stamens 6, free and unappendaged. Style slender: stigma sim- 
ple. Pods obovoid 2-celled, many-seeded, with a broad thin obo- 
void persistent partition and somewhat firm strongly convex 
valves. Seeds in 2 rows in the cells wingless. Cotyledons 
incumbent. 
C. sativa Crantz l. c. Stems simple or sparingly branched above 
1-4 feet high leafy, nearly glabrous or somewhat hirsute: leaves erect en- 
tire or nearly so: flowers rather small, light yellow: fruiting pedicels 
Spreading, pods obovate, becoming 3-4 lines long three-fourths as broad, 
glabrous, ATES finely reticulate and slightly ribbed upon the faces. 
‘An introduced weed becoming common from Seattle Washington, to Cali- 
ifornia and across the continent. 
26 SUBULARIA L. Gen. n. 799. 
Dwarf stemless aquatic herbs with tufted subulate leaves and 
few minute white flowers. Pods small, ovoid, slightly com- 
pressed contrary to the partition. Style none, valves conyex, 1- 
nerved. Seeds several in each cell, not margined. Cotyledons 
incumbent. 
S. aquatica L. Sp. ii, 642. Stems slender, 1-3 inches high, from 
slender running rootstocks with numerous fibrous rootlets; leaves subu- 
late, usually shorter than the scape: flowers scattered, less than a line 
long, the petals not exserted: pods 14 lines long, about equaling the D a 
d- 
icels, obtuse, Edge of ponds, etc., Vancouver Island to California, Wyo- 
ming, Maine, New Hampshire and Canada. 
Tribe VI. Brassicex, DC. Pods elongated, terete or somewhat 
prismatic, often torulose, usually partially or wholly dehiscent 
by 2 valves, 2-celled with a longitudinal? membranous partition. 
Seeds in 1 or 2 rows in the cells. Cotyledons conduplicate. Petals 
well developed. | 
12 BRASSICA Tourn. Inst. 218 t. 106 L. Gen. n. 820. 
Coarse erect annual or biennial herbs of European or Asiatic 
origin with usually (at least the lowest) leaves lyrate and com- 
paratively large velJow flowers. Sepals equal, or one pair often 
saccate at base. Anthers long, sagittate at base. Pods linear, 
nearly terete or somewhat 4-sided, pointed with a conical beak not 
stipitate, with 1-3 nerved valves. Seeds in 1 row globose, net, 
margined. 
