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 pirmatifid, 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 winged. 



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

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



