66 CRUCIFERZ. THYSANOCARPUS. 
RAPHANUS. 
indehiscent, 1-celled, 1-seeded. Seeds pendulous, somewhat flat- 
tened, margined. Cotyledons accumbent to oblique-incumbent. 
__ 'T. eurvipes Hook 1. ce. Somewhat hirsute at base, glabrous above, 
6-25 inches high: radical leaves, oblanceolate, 1-3 inches long pinnatifid 
or sinuately toothed: upper ones lanceolate to linear, sagittate-auriculate 
and clasping at base, entire or sparingly toothed: pods rounded to obo- 
vate or ovate, densely tomentose or glabrous 2-4 lines broad including the 
entire or crenate, veined and often perforated wing, emarginate at the 
summit and tipped by the short purple style, usually colored ; pedicels 2- 
4 lines long, at length recurved. Common on dry hillsides Washington 
to California, Arizona and Idaho. Flowering in early spring. 
T. radians Benth. Pl. Hartw. 297. Stems 6-18 inches high simple or 
with a few simple, elongated ascending branches, glabrous: lowest leaves 
runcinately toothed or pinnatifid; the cauline ones ovate-lanceolate and 
auriculate-clasping: racemes long, loosely flowered: pedicels usually as- 
cending but nodding near the apex, 4-8 lines long: petals purple, exceed- 
ing the sepals; pods rounded, 4-5 lines in diameter, tomentose or quite 
smooth, scarcely emarginate with a broad entire translucent wing con- 
spicuously marked by radiating nerves: style short. Southern Oregon 
(Umpqua valley) to Central California. 
Tribe IX. Raphanze DC. Pods indehiscent, transversely separ- 
ated into 1-few-seeded joints. Seeds globose. , Cotyledons condu- 
plicate. 
36 RAPHANUS Tourn. Inst. 229 1.114 L. Gen. n. 882. 
Coarse annual or biennial herbs with pinnatifid leaves and 
white or purple flowers. Sepals erect, the lateral somewhat sac- 
cate. Petals large, unguiculate. Stamens 6, unappendaged, 
attenuate to a slender or rather stout beak, indehiscent trans- 
versely divided by several false partitions, seeds globular, pend- 
ulous. ; 
R. sativus L. Sp. ii 669. Stems stout and branching 1-4 feet high from 
a straight thick anoual root: leaves lyrately pinnatifid, hirsute: petals 
white to purple 6-8 lines long: pods terete 4-6 lines in diameter, graduall 
narrowed to an elongated beak, usually 2-3-seeded. Escaped from culti- 
vation, Washington to California. i 
OrperR VIII. CAPPARIDACEZ Endl. Gen. 889. 
Herbs or shrubs with alternate leaves without stipules and 
eet hypogynous flowers. Sepals or lobes of the calyx 4. 
etals 4, rarely 5-8 or none, usually ungu‘culate, more or less 
unequal. Stamens. in ours, 6-12, rarely 4. Ovary often stipi- 
tate, composed of two united carpels with two parietal pla- 
cents. Styles united into one, often filiform, sometimes short 
or almost none: stigma often discoid or subeapitate. Fruit 
one-celled, in ours a two-valved pod-shaped capsule. Seeds 
campylotropous, reniform, without albumen. Embryo curved. 
Cotyledons foliaceous, somewhat incumbent. | 
1 Jacksonia. Stamens 8-32: flowers whitish or pinkish: pods elon- 
gated, dehiscent from the top downward. | 
2 Cleome. Stamens 6: flowers yellow or purplish: pods. oblong or 
ce 
linear, dehiscent from the base upward, 
