XXXIV GARDEN BOTANY. 



4. RaphamiS sativus, RADISH. Lower leaves lyrate , flowers purple and 

 whitish ; pods thick, knobby, pointed, never opening, the seeds separated by 

 pithy partitions : cult, for the tender and fleshy pungent root. 



R. Raphanistrum, WILD RADISH or JOINTED CHARLOCK, a trou 

 blesome weed : see Man. p. 40. 



5. Hesperis matronalis, ROCKET. A rather coarse ornamental peren- 

 nial of country gardens, tall, pubescent; leaves ovate-lanceolate or oblong, 

 toothed ; flowers light purple, in summer, hardly fragrant except at evening. 



6. Matthi'ola, STOCK, GILLIFLOWER. Garden or house plants, with hoary 

 leaves, cult, for their fresh fragrant, commonly pink or reddish, sometimes 



white, often double flowers. 



M. incana, COMMON STOCK. Perennial, almost woody : flowers mostly 

 full double. 



M. annua, TEN-WEEK STOCK. Annual : flowers commonly single, pur- 

 ple or white. 



7. Lunaria, HONESTY, SATIN-FLOWER. Hardy plants, with heart-shaped 

 leaves, and broad flat pods, which are raised out of the calyx on a stalk of their 

 own ; their broad white partition, of satiny lustre, remaining after the valves 

 have fallen. 



L. biennis, COMMON HONESTY, is occasionally met with in the country : 

 root biennial ; pods broadly oval and obtuse. 



L. rediviva, the perennial kind, with lanceolate pods, is still more rare. 



8. Ib'eris, CANDYTUFT. Well marked by the irregular corolla, the two petals 

 on the lower or outer side of the flower larger than the other two : leaves nar- 

 row. Low plants, cult, for ornament. 



I. umbellata. Annual ; flowers purple, in summer ; pod deeply notched. 

 I. saxatilis. Almost shrubby, fleshy-leaved ; flowers white, in spring. 



9. Lepidium sativum, GARDEN PEPPERGRASS. Annual, smooth ; leaves 

 much cut ; pods round-oval : rarely cult, as a Cress. 



10. Alyssum saxatile, ROCK ALYSSUM, a low, hoary-leaved species, full 

 of bright yellow flowers, occasionally cultivated for ornament. 



A. maritimum, SWEET A., of the subgenus Keniga, with white flowers, 

 scarcely hoary linear-lanceolate leaves, and small white sweet-scented flowers, 

 blooming in long succession, is commonly cultivated for bouquets, &c. 



ORDER CAPP ARID ACE JE. CAPER FAMILY. 



Manual, p. 40. Rather common as a garden annual is one species of 



1. Cleome. Sepals and petals 4, spreading, the latter with long claws. Sta 

 mens 6. Ovary long-stalked, becoming a many-seeded narrow pod. 



C. pungens. Clammy-pubescent; leaves digitate; leaflets 5-9; stipules 

 spine-like ; flowers pink or purple. 



ORDER RESEDACEJS. MIGNONETTE FAMILY. 

 Manual, p. 41. A most common and favorite species in cultivation is 



1. Reseda odorata, COMMON MIGNONETTE. Cult, as an annual, low 

 and spreading, with many of the leaves 3-cleft, and a raceme of greenish-white 

 very fragrant flowers ; anthers orange. 



