Neslia. C'la'CIFElLE. ];]] 



C. BLusA-PASr6Ri8, Medic. 1. c. (Suki-iieki.'s 1'ub8k.) Finely stcllato-puhcwent aii-l m.mo- 

 wliat hirsute: ba.s:il loaves obloii^r or ohhuiceolato in oiu)in«, imrr"w<-! »K.t..w to wir.-^.-l 

 petioles, dentate or deuph- siuuate-piniiatifid ; can!' 

 clasping bases : racemes in fruit loose, clonfraied. 

 ing. — Thiaxpi Bursn-jiasloris, L. Sjjcc. ii C47. It 



Mem. Torr. C'lul). v. 1 72. — ( )ne of the commonest door ,> aid wcudb, doubiliuw of gnruntogfuiu 

 origin, hut now cosmt)politan. (\at. from Eu.) 



§ 2. Hymenoi.obk.e. Fruit ellii)tioal, entire at tiie apex : iiirli-jr-nous, chiefly 

 in the West. 



C. elliptica, C. A. Meyer. Low, weak and 8])reading. very minutely utellnto-pubewent or 

 glal)r()us throughout: leaves thin, small, sjtatulate or lanceolate; the lower commonlv with 

 a few blunt teeth or more or less deeply piuuittilid: stems nearlv filif.jrin, flexuous • 

 minute: sepals ovate-elliptic, obui.sc, thin-margined, about e<iualled bv the nam. 

 petals: capsule elliptic-oldong, I to U linos in length; stigma nearlv sessih'. — .M^ 

 Ledeb. Fl. Alt. iii. 199. C. lyrocuinbeus, Fries, M;uit. i. 14; licicheub. Ir. Fl. (krm. ii. 

 t. 11 ; Britton, Bull. Torn Club, xvii. 311. C. diraricuta, & C. enrUi, Walp. Ueji. i. 175. 

 Hi/meiiolobus divariculHs, Nutt. iu Torr. & dray, Fl. i. 117; J look. Ic. t. 277. /I. ertctu.-. 

 Nutt 1. c. ' Lepidium procuinbens, L. Spec. ii. 64.3. llutrhinsia proi-uminns, Dcsv. Jour. Bot. 

 iii. 168 (1814). — Dead Islands, Labrador, Allen; widely distributed in the West, from 

 Wyoming, Porter, to Brit. Columbia, Mucoim, and S. California. (Asia, &c ) 



C. pubens, Benth. & Hook. TaH, erect, quite simple or with several ascending bnim h. -, 

 finely and rather closely stellate-tomentose throughout : stem rather stout, leafy : 

 lanceolate or oblong, pinnately toothed or merely repand : racemes rather dense, b. . 

 much elongateil; pedicels 4 to 8 lines long: sepals spreading in anthc.sis: capsu 

 inflated, stellately pubescent and hispid, 3 to 4 lines long, tipjicd with a short slen'i' 

 — Benth. & Hook. ace. to Wats. Bild. Index, 52, & True. Am. Acad. xvii. 322. //;/;/-• 

 pubetts, Gray, I'l. Wright, i. 9, & ii. 14. — Prairies of Texas, Wrnjht, G'inird, Iluvuid, and 

 New Mexico, Wright. (Mex., Palmer, Pringte.) 



17. CAMifiLINA, Crantz. False Flax. (Name doubtfully derived 

 from x"/^«'» o^ ^'^^ ground, dwarf, and Xivov, flux, perhaps referring to a stunt- 

 ing influence upon flax, in fields of which it often grows.) — Erect geron- 

 togeous annuals with sagittate-clasping oblong to linear entire or dentate 

 thickish leaves (the lowermost rarely pinnatifid), and j>ale yellow or white 

 flowers of no beauty. — Stirp. Austr. i. 18 ; Reiehenl) 1. c. t. 24 : Benth. «& Hook. 

 Gen. i. 83 ; Prantl in Engl. & Trantl, Nat. Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. 2, 180. [By 

 B» L. Robinson.] 



C. SAxfvA, Crantz,!. c Stem simple or sparingly branched above, IJ to 4 feet high, leafy, 

 nearly glabrous or somewhat hirsute: leaves erect, l| to 2i lines long, entire or nearly .«o : 

 flowers rather small, light yellow; fruiting pedicels spreading-a«cending: fruit ol><t\.it.. 

 becoming 3^ to 4 lines long, three fourths as broad, glabrous, margined, finely ml.n 

 lated and slightly rildicd upon the face.s. — DC. Sysl. ii. 51.5 ; Beck. Bet. 27 ; Darlingt I-l. 

 Ccst. 379 ; Torr. & Cray, Fl. i. 110. — A weed not infrequent in cultivated ground, es|KTially 

 in flax-fields in Canada and the Middle States, extending across the c.ntii.c ni : ti (..rlv 

 summer. (Introd. from En.) 



18. NifiSLIA, Desv. (Dedicated to /. A. N. Do N>s... An ....i 

 annual monotype of the Old World, a«lvontive in America. — .lourn. BoU iii. 

 162 (1814); Reiehenb. 1. c. [By B. L. Hoiunson.] 



N. pamchlAta, Desv. 1. c. ]'ubo.scent, a foot ur more in hfiL'ht, simple np to the infl«i 

 leaves oblong, obtnsish, 1 to 2 inches in lengili. ' 

 base: nicemes 1 to 5, ascending; i>edi<els wi(lol\ 



.sepals ubl..iiL' |i:il.' ^>■\l<^s : l.'i.'K MKiMihiU-. bri-l ■ 



