Barbarta. CKL'ClFEK.i:. 149 



rudilish, rather obscurely and ij;regularly minutely pitted. — Hook. & Arn. in Hook- Jour. 

 Bot. i. 190. N. palustre, var. tarfuctti/ulium, DC. Syst. ii. 192. N. MitrujieUilum. Fiscli. & 

 Meyer, lud. Sem. Ilort. Petrup. iii. 1837, 41. N. WuUeri, Wood, Cliws-Hook, ed. of 1861, 

 288. '! Sis//mbriuiH taiuircii/'oHitm, Walt. Car. 174, not L. S. [Valleri, Ell. Sk. ii. 146. 

 S. (?) teres, Tort. & Gray, Fl. i. 0.'3. Vuidamhie teres, Mieli.x. Fl. ii. 2'J. — Sotith Carolina to 

 Florida and west to 'Pexjus and Mexico. What is ret-ognizcd its N. MexkAni;m, DC, of 

 Mexico, is a very similar species with somewhat stouter and ohtuser poils, often deliexcd, 

 and larger minutely tulterculate paler seeds. The West Indian N. brevipes, Griseh., how- 

 ever, may rather be regarded as a variety (insulurum) of N. /(inactli/ulium. Its seeds are 

 sinii^r in color and marking, but tiie pods are shorter ami the style very short or stigma 

 nearlv 



N. sessiliflorum, Nitt. Glabrous, erect, branching, 2 feet high or less: leaves oblanceo- 

 liite. usually obtuse, coarsely toothed or lyrately piimatifid with few sliort segments: pedi- 

 cels very short (tiie lowest rarely I to 1^ lines long) : pods .spreading, tiiick and cylindrical, 

 3 or 4 lines long, obtuse ; style very short ; seeds minutely pitted. — Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, 

 Fl. i. 73 ; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 132, t. 53, excl. f. 1-5. N. limosum, Nutt. 1. c. — From Illinois 

 and Missouri to Georgia and Texas.i 



Recently published species not seen Ity the editor. 

 N.* dictyotum, Greene. "Stout, erect, 2 to 4 feet high, hirsute-pubescent: nuemes 

 rather dense: pods ovate-lanceolate ; valves firm in texture, with strong tortuous midveiu 

 and anastomosing veinlets ; partition thick, favose-reticulate." — Fl. Francis. 268. liorijia 

 dicti/ota, Greene, Man. Bay-Kcg. 20 (whence the foregoing descr.). — " Marslies of the Lower 

 Sacramento." 



RoufPA TENERUiMA, Greene. "Annual, weak ami decumbent, very .sparingly branching, 

 6 to 10 inches high, of delicate texture and glabrous : leaves few, lyrate-pinnatifid, the terminal 

 lobe acutish : rhachis of the few racemes almost capillary: pofls rather distant, suhconical, 

 slightly curved, the tapering apex surmounted by a considerable beak-like style; valves and 

 septum both very thin: seeds many, in 2 rows under each valve." — Erythea, iii. 46 (whence 

 descr.). —" Modoc Co., Calif., Mrs. Austin." 



35. BARBAREA, R. Br. Winter Cress. (Name from Erysimum Bnr- 

 harea, L., the most common species, and sometimes called Herb of St. Barbara.) 

 — Chiefly biennials, soniewhat succulent, sharing most of the ch:iracters of 

 Nnstiirtium,, but with somewhat stouter habit, uiore elongated rigid capsules and 

 uniseriate seeds. — R. Br. in. Ait. f. Kew. ed. 2, Iv. 100; DC. Syst. ii. 205, «& 

 Prodr. i. 140 ; Gray, Gen. 111. i. 147, t. 62 ; Roichenb. Ic. Fl. Giun>. ii. t. 47-49 ; 

 Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 68. — Spec, of difficult limitation. [By B. L. RobinbON.] 



B. vulgaris, R. Bk. 1. c. (Common Winter Cress, Yellow Rocket.) Stems erect, 

 furrowed-aiigulate, simide or corymbosely branched, leafy, 1 to 3 feet high: radical leaves 

 anil lower cauline usually pinnately parted ; the terminal segment ovate or orbicular, 

 rounded at tlie apex and varying from cuneate to cordate at the ba.sc, entire or with a few 

 rounded teeth or lobes ; lateral segments very variable, usually about 3 (0 to 5) pairs, oblong, 

 entire or toothed ; petioles auriculate-appendagcd at tlie base ; upper leaves simplified, 

 oblanceolate, cut-tootlicd, sessile, clasping at base : flowers in a short douse oblong raceme, 

 bright yellow : petals nearly or quite twice as long as the sepals : jiods from the first ascend- 

 ing or suberect u))on more or less sjjreading pedicels. — DC. Syst. ii. 206, in part. Barharen 

 B(trb(trea, MacMillan, Metasp. Minn. Val. 259. Erijsimuiii fiarhtireo, L. Spec. ii. 660; Fl. 

 Dan. t 985; Eng. Rot. t. 443. — Moist meadows, brooksides, &c. ; in America chiefly the 

 formal variety auctAta, Fries (Consp. fa.sc. vi. no. 17), witli inflorescence somewhat lax 

 and elongated even in anthesis and ydung pods rather widely spreading and more or le.ss 

 curved ; a form common in the Northern au<l Middle States across the continent and north- 

 ward to Labrador and Alaska, and on tiie Raciflc SIojk' south\\urd to Lower Calif.. Omiit. 

 (Ea., Asia.) 



1 Near Richmond. Va., Churchill. Add .,jni. Roripa seSDiliJlortii Hitchcock, 1. c. 



