34 CBUCIFER.S:. (MUSTARD FAMILY.) 



ia and Kentucky May. About 1 high, slender. Pods 1' long, almost fill- 

 form ; the valves obscurely nerved. 



4. A. patens, Sulliv. Downy with spreading hairs, erect (l-2 high); 

 item-leaves oblong-ovate, acutish, coarsely toothed or the uppermost entire, half- 

 clasping by the heart-shaped base ; petals (bright white) twice the length of the 

 calyx ; pedicels slender, spreading ; pods spreading and curving upwards, tipped 

 with a distinct style. Rocky banks of the Scioto, Ohio, Suttivant. Penn., Prof. 

 Porter. May. Flowers thrice as large as in No. 5. Pods l'-2' long. 



5. A. hirsute!, Scop. Rough-hairy, sometimes smoothish, strictly erect 

 (l-2 high) ; stem-leaves oblong or lanceolate, entire or toothed, partly clasp- 

 ing by a somewhat arrow-shaped or heart-shaped base ; petals (greenish- white) 

 small, but longer than the calyx ; pedicels and pods strictly upright ; style scarcely 

 any. Rocks, common, especially northward. May, June. Stem 1 - 2 high, 

 simple or branched from the base. Root-leaves spatulate-oblong, sessile or near- 

 ly so. Flowers small. (Eu.) 



- - Seeds winged; their stalks adherent to the partition : petals narrow, whitish. 



6. A. laevigala, DC. Smooth and glaucous, upright; stem-leaves partly 

 clasping by the arrow-shaped base, lanceolate or linear, sparingly cut-toothed or 

 entire ; petals scarcely longer than the calyx ; pods long and narrow, recurved- 

 spreading. Rocky places, Maine to Wisconsin and Kentucky. May. Stem 

 l-3 high. Pods 3' long, on short merely spreading pedicels. (This is also 

 A. heterophylla, Nutt.) 



7. A. CanadensiS, L. (SICKLE-POD.) Stem upright, smooth above ; 

 stem-leaves pubescent, pointed at both ends, oblong-lanceolate, sessile, the lower 

 toothed; petals twice the length of the calyx, oblong-linear; pods drooping, flat, 

 scythe-shaped. (A. falcata, Michx. ) Woods. June - Aug. Stem 2 - 3 high. 

 Pods 3' long and 2" broad, veiny, hanging on rough-hairy pedicels, curved like 

 a scymitar. 



7. TURRIT IS, Dill. TOWER MUSTARD. 



Pod and flowers, &c., as in Arabis ; but the seeds occupying 2 longitudinal 

 rows in each cell. Biennials or rarely annuals. Flowers white or rose-color. 

 (Name from turris, a tower.) 



1. T. glabra, L. Stem-leaves oblong or ovate-lanceolate, smooth and glau- 

 cous, entire, half-clasping by the arrow-shaped base ; the yellowish white petal* 

 little longer than the calyx ; flowers and the long and narrow (3' long) straight 

 pods strictly erect. Rocks and fields ; common northward. June. (Eu.) 



2. T. Stricta, Graham. Smooth (l-2 high); stern-leaves lanceolate or 

 linear, half-clasping by the arrow-shaped base, entire or nearly so ; petals twice 

 the length of the calyx ; pedicels erect in flower ; the linear elongated flat pods up- 

 right or spreading at maturity. Jefferson and Chenango Counties, New York, 

 North Illinois, and northward. May. Root-leaves small. Petals white, 

 tinged with purple. Ripe pods 2^' -4' long, 1" wide. 



3. T. bracliycarpa, Torr. & Gray. Smooth and glaucous ; stemJeaves 

 linear-lanceolate, acute, arrow-shaped ; pedicels of the flowers nodding, of the short 



