24G TETRADYNAMIA — SILICULOisA. [T/ilaspi. 



2. CnAMBE. Linn. Kale. 



1 C. maritima, L. (^Sea Kale) ; longer filtiments forked, pouch 

 pointless, leaves roundish sinuated waved toothed glaucous and 

 us well as the stem glabrous. E. Bot. t. 16G0. 



Sea-coast in sandy or stony soils, in various places ; but not very 

 general. Fl. June. If. . — Root thick, Heshy. Flowers white. Well 

 known as an excellent culinary vegetable when cultivated and blanched. 



3. CoRONOPUs. G(ert. >y art-cress. 



1. C. Ruellii, Sni. (commo7i Wart-cress, Swine's cress); pouch 

 undivided crested with little sharp points, style prominent. E. 

 Bot. t. 1660. — Senebiera Coronopus, DC. — Cochlearia, L. 



Waste ground, not unfrequent in England. Rare in Scotland and 

 mostlyfound about Edinburgh. Fl.Juue — Sept. 0. — A much branched, 

 spreading weed. Zeai^esbipinnate, tbeir segments linear. Flowers \eTy 

 small, white, in lateral, axillary corpnbs. Pouch large in proportion to 

 the flower, curiously crested. 



2. C. didijma, Sm. (lesser Wart-cress) ; pouch emarginate of 

 two wrinkled lobes, style very short. — Senebiera didyma, E. Fl. 

 V. iii. p. 180. — »S'. pinnalijida, DC. — Lepidium didymum, E. 

 Bot. t. 248. 



Waste ground near the sea, in the south and south-west of England 

 only. About Exeter, Truro, Penryn, Milfordhaven. Shore near Caer- 

 narvon. South of Ireland. Fl. July. © . 



4. IsATis. Lijin. Woad. 

 1. \.*tinct6ria, L. (Dyer's Woad); pouch obovato-oblong 

 glabrous, radical leaves oblong crenate, those of the stem sagit- 

 tate. E. Bot. t. 97. 



Cultivated fields, about Ely, Durham, &c. Fl. July. $ Flowers 



yellow. Cultivated for the sake of the blue dye which it yields, and 

 used by the ancient Britons to paint their bodies. 



5. Vella. lAnn. Cress-rocket. 

 1. y.*(hinua, L. {annual Cress-rocket); leaves bipinnatifid, 



fruit pendulous. E. Bot. t. 1442 Carrichtera Vella, DC. 



Sandy fields. Salisbury Plains, May. Fl. June. 0. 



6. ThlAspi. Limi. Penny-cress. 



1. T. arvense, L. (3Iithridate Mustard or Penny-cress) ; poucli 

 orbicular with a broad longitudinal wing, seeds concentrically 

 striated, leaves oblong arrow-shaped toothed glabrous. E. Bot. 

 t. 1659. 



Fields and by road-sides, in various places ; but not common. Fl. 

 June, July. 0. — One foot high, branched above. Flowers extremely 

 small, white. Pouch very large, with unusually broad wings. 



2. T. perfolicitum, L. (^perfoliate Penny-cress); pouch obcor- 

 date, style included within the notch, cauline leaves cordate some- 

 what toothed glabrous. E. Bot. t. 2354. 



Rare. Limestone pastures." Burford, Oxfordshire : recently discov- 

 ered growing abundantly at Upper Slaughter and the neighbourhood, 



