CRUCIFER^E. CX. SCHIZOPETALON. CXI. STREPTANTIIUS. CXII. SELENIA. 



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f Additional cruciferous plants. 



1 MATHI'OLA PA'TENS (Presl. fl. sic. ex Spreng. syst. app. 

 p. 242.) plant tomentose or hoary from stellate down ; stem her- 

 baceous, diffusely branched ; leaves lanceolate, entire, tomen- 

 tose ; siliques terete, spreading, tomentose, and muricated with 

 glands. $ . H. Native of Sicily. This plant comes nearest 

 to Mathwla dnnua, p. 151. no. 2. of this work. 



Spreadine-branched Stock. Fl. May, June. PI. 1 foot. 



2 MATHIOLA SIMPLICICA'ULIS (Sweet, hort. brit. p. 17.) $ . 

 H. Native of? This is the Brompton Stock. It differs from Ma- 

 thiola incana or Queen Stock (to which it was formerly attached 

 as a simple variety,) in the plant being a biennial not shrubby ; 

 it is simple, not branched. The flowers of this variety are 

 either scarlet or white, single or double. It is a very ornamental 

 plant, and is very generally cultivated for that purpose. 



Brompton Stock or Simple-stemmed Stock. Fl. May, Aug. 

 Clt. ? PI. 1 foot. 



3 NASTU'RTIUM? SINE'NSE (D. C. syst. 2. p. 699) Native 

 of China. Lepidium petrse'um, Lour. fl. cochin, ed. Willd. 2. 

 p. 479. exclusive of the synonyms. Lepidium Chinense, Stok. 

 bot. mat. med. 3. p. 429. Stem annual, eight inches high, round, 

 erect. Leaves broad, lanceolate, quite entire, small, pinnated. 

 Stamens tetradynamous. Spikes of flowers simple, erect, long, 

 terminal. Flowers yellow. Pods ovate, emarginate, compres- 

 sed, 2- celled, many-seeded. Plant bitter and acrid to the taste. 



Chinese Nasturtium. PI. |- foot. 



4 NASTU'RTIUM ? ROTUNDIFOLIUM (Rafin. fl. lud. p. 8G. no. 

 274.) Native of Louisiana. Cochlearia, no. 4. Rob. voy. 

 Louis. 3. p. 467. Habit of A'rabis rhomboldea. Plant large. 

 Leaves thick, juicy, and eatable, but insipid. Stem erect, 

 branched. Leaves roundish, sinuately-lobed. Petals elongated, 

 longer than the calyx. 



Round-leaved Nasturtium. PI. 2 feet. 



5 A'RABIS LONGISI'LIQUA (Presl. ex Spreng. syst. app. 242.) 

 stem very simple, and is as well as the leaves hoary from 

 forked down ; radical leaves oblong-lanceolate, quite entire ; 

 pedicels appressed, much shorter than the calyx. 1JL. H. 

 Native of Sicily. Flowers white ? This plant comes very near 

 to A'rabis collina, p. 165. no. 56. of this work. 



Far. ft, A. purpurdscens (Presl. 1. c.) Flowers purplish. 

 Long-podded Wall-Cress. PI. 5 foot. 



6 PTERONEU'RUM DALMA'TICUM (Vis. in bot. zeit. 1829.) 

 plant smooth ; stem diffuse, much branched ; leaves pinnate, 

 fleshy, glaucescent ; leaflets obovate, stalked, 3-lobed, lower 

 ones palmate ; silique erect, smooth, crowned by the elongated 

 terete style ; seeds margined at the top. Q. H. Native of Dal- 

 matia. Cardamine maritima, Portenschlag, p. 170, no. 48, of this 

 work. This is considered by Visiani to be a true species of 

 Pteroneurum, in the calyx being spreading, in the silique being 

 lanceolate, as well as in the funicle being dilated. 



Dalmatian Pteroneurum. Fl. June. PI. 5 foot. 



7 FARSE'TIADALMA'TICA (Vis. 1. c.) is F. triquetra, D. C. see p. 

 175, no. 8. of this work. The branches are not triquetrous, but 

 round. Visiani gives the following amended character. Plant 

 covered with stellate down ; stems suffruticose at the base ; 

 branches round, ascending ; leaves obovate, tapering into the 

 petiole and repand ; style long, deciduous ; stigma 2-lobed. 

 If. . H. Native of Dalmatia. 



Dalmatian Farsetia. Fl. May, June. PI. 1 foot. 



8 VESICA'RIA MICROCA'RPA (Vis. fl. bot. zeit. no. 12. March 

 1829. p. 17.) plant herbaceous, covered with stellate down; 

 stems erect, branched; leaves obovate, spatulate, entire, radical 

 ones stalked ; calyx equal, not gibbous ; fructiferous corymbs 

 crowded ; pods globose, inflated, smooth, few-seeded ; style 

 permanent ; seeds margined. I/ . H. Native of Dalmatia on 

 mount Biokova. Flowers yellow. 



Small-fruited Vesicaria. Fl. June, July. PI. J foot. 



9 LEPI'DIUM PUBE'SCENS (Gusson. fl. sic. prod, ex Schlecht. 

 Linnaea 4. p. 38, under Thlaspi.) O-H. Native of Sicily. Very 

 like L. hirta, p. 218. no. 12. of this work ; but the plant is pu- 

 bescent, not hairy, and the pods are oblong and emarginate, and 

 with the style protruding beyond the notch. 



Pubescent Mithridate Pepperwort. PI. |. foot. 



10 IBE'RIS INTEGE'RRIMA (Mor. elench. p. 4.) plant suffrutes- 

 cent at the base, pubescent at the top ; leaves oblong-spatulate, 

 fleshy, quite entire, rather concave, uppermost ones ciliated ; 

 pods emarginate, racemosely-corymbose. Ij . H. Native of 

 Sardinia. An intermediate plant between 7. Tenoreana and 7. 

 Pruitii, p. 194, no. 2 and 3, of this work. 



Very-entire-leaved Candy Tuft. Fl. May. PI. J- foot. 



11 BISCUTE'LLA INCA'NA (Tenore, prod. fl. nap. 1826.) stem 

 woody at the base ; pods smooth, somewhat undulated, scabrous 

 in the disk from elevated tubercles ; leaves hispid, hoary, ob- 

 long, unequally sinuate-toothed ; teeth blunt. 1^ . H. Native 

 of Calabria. This plant differs from B. saxdtilis, in the stems 

 being more tufted and more woody at the base, as well as in the 

 pods being undulated, and twice the size. 



Hoary Buckler Mustard. Fl. May, July. PI. 1 foot. 



12 HE'SPERIS GLUTINOSA (Vis. in bot. zeit. Dec. 1829.) plant 

 covered with viscid hairs ; stems branched ; radical leaves 

 lyrately-pinnatifid, thickish ; cauline ones broad-lanceolate, 

 toothed at the base, acuminated and entire at the top, on very 

 short petioles ; pedicels racemose, shorter than the calyx, lean- 

 ing almost to one side ; claws of the petals twice the length of 

 the calyx ; pods clothed with viscid hairs, at length spreading 

 and deflexed, somewhat torulose ; seeds oblong-truncate. If. . 

 H. Native of Dalmatia. Colum. ecph. 2. p. 261. Mor. oxon. 

 p. 252. sect. 3. t. 10. f. 5. Flowers lilac. This species comes 

 very near 77. laciniata, All. p. 202, no. 4, of this work. 



Clammy Dame's violet. Fl. March, April. PI. 2 to 3 feet. 



CXI. STREPTA'NTHUS (from orptm-oe, streptos, twisted, 

 and avdoc, anthos, a flower ; twisted claws of petals.) Nutt. 

 in journ. acad. nat. sc. philad. 5. p. 132. ann. 1825. 



LIN. SYST. Tetradynatnm, Siliquosa. Calyx erect, coloured. 

 Petals dilated, with channelled twisted claws. Glands none. 

 Filaments awl-shaped, thickened at the base. Silique very long, 

 angular, compressed. Seeds flat, marginate, disposed in one 

 row. Cotyledons accumbent. An annual herb, with quite en- 

 tire leaves, and purple flowers. Pods very long, tetragonal, 2- 

 edged. This genus agrees in habit with A'rabis, but in the 

 pods with Turrltis. 



1 S. MACULA'TUS (Nutt. 1. c. with a figure.) 0. H. Native 

 of the Arkansa territory. 



Spotted Streptanthus. Fl. May. PI. 1 foot. 



Cult. The seeds of this plant only require to be sown in the 

 open border, and the plants afterwards treated as other hardy 

 annuals. 



CXII. SELE'NIA (from o-fXjjvq, selene, the moon; shape of 

 pods.) Nutt. in journ. acad. nat. sc. philad. 5. p. 132. ann. 1825. 



LIN. SYST. Tetradynamia, Siliculosa. Calyx coloured, equal 

 at the base, spreading. Silicle large, many-seeded, elliptical, 

 compressed, marginate, almost sessile ; valves parallel, smaller 

 than the dissepiment. Glands 10, by pairs between the sepals, 

 and solitary emarginate between the shorter stamens and the 

 pistil. An annual plant, with triquetrous stems ; pinnatifid 

 leaves and axillary golden flowers. Habit of Brdssica, but with 

 the fruit of Lundria. Radical leaves almost bipinnatifid. 



1 S. AU'REA (Nutt. 1. c. with a figure.) O- H. Native of 

 Arkansa upon the banks of the river Pottoe. 



GoWen-flowered Selenia. Fl. March, April. PI. 1 foot. 



Cult. The seeds of this plant will only require to be sown 



