270 TETEADYNAMIA SILICTJLOSA. fcL. XV. 



lobed, compressed. Style very short ; stigma obtuse. Pouch 

 roundish, compressed, two-lobed, two-celled, not bursting; 

 valves globular or rounded, wrinkled, each lodging a solitary 

 roundish seed. Name, in honour of M. Senebier, of Geneva, 

 an eminent botanist. 324. 



1. S. Coronopus. Swine s-cress. Wart-cress. Pouch undivided, 

 crested, with little sharp points ; style prominent, leaves pinnatiM ; 



subdivided. Boot tapering : stems prostrate, branched, leafy : 



leaves deeply divided, smooth: flowers white, in dense corymb?. 

 Annual : flowers from June to September : grows in waste ground 

 and by way- sides : not uncommon in England, but rare in Scot- 

 land. Eng. Bot. vol. xxiv. pi. 1660. Eng. Fl vol. iii. p. 179. 953. 



2. S. didyma. Less Wart-cress. Pouch cleft, of two round 

 wrinkled lobes ; style very short ; leaves pinnatifid, partly crenate. 



Root fibrous, small: stems procumbent, about a foot long, 



branched : leaves smooth, flat : flowers small, white, with two or 

 four stamens only. Annual : flowers in July : grows in waste 

 ground, in Devonshire and Cornwall, and in Ireland. Eng. Bot. 

 vol. iv. pi. 248 : Lepidium didymum. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 180. 



954. 



12. CRA'MBE. SEA-KALE. 



Calyx of four oblong, concave, spreading leaves. Petals 

 large, obtuse, broad, spreading. Filaments awl-shaped, the four 

 longest with a sharp lateral tooth ; anthers oblong. Germen 

 oblong. Style none ; stigrna obtuse. Pouch finally leathery, 

 of two joints, each one-celled, not bursting, the lower abortive, 

 the upper globular and deciduous. Seed solitary, globular. 

 Name, crambos, of the Greeks. 325. 



1. C.maritima. Sea-Kale. Leaves roundish, sinuated, toothed, 



glaucous, smooth, Root large and fleshy : stems two feet high, 



branched, spreading, smooth and glaucous : leaves stalked, lea- 

 thery: flowers large, white, in terminal clusters. The young 

 leaves are boiled as cabbage. Perennial: flowers in May and 

 June: grows in sand on the sea- coast: not common. Eng. Bot. 

 vol. xxiii. pL 924. Eng. Fl. vol. iii. p. 184. 955. 



13. CAKI'LE. SEA-ROCKET. 



Calyx of four erect, oblong, deciduous leaves, two opposite 

 ones protuberant at the base. Petals inversely egg-shaped, 

 obtuse, spreading, their claws as long as the calyx. Filaments 

 awl-shaped, simple ; anthers oblong, cleft at the base. Germen 

 oblong. Style none; stigma obtuse. Pouch of two joints, 

 angular, compressed, the lower often abortive, the upper oblong, 

 with a tapering point, deciduous, each one-celled, not bursting. 

 Seeds one in each cell, elliptical. Name, an old Arabic word. 



326. 



1. C. maritima. Sea-Rocket. Joints of the pouch two-edged, 



the upper one arrow-shaped ; leaves fleshy, pinnatifid, obtuse. 



The whole plant smooth and glaucous : stem a foot high, much 



