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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



Raphanus 

 Raphanistrum. 



RapTianus salivas. 



indehiscent and one-seeded, separating with more or less facility 

 from its neighbours. The Radishes are annual or biennial herbs, 

 whose vegetative organs often behave like those of Brassica, the root 

 becoming enlarged and fleshy. The stem is annual or 

 biennial, branching, glabrous or hispidulous. The leaves 

 are alternate, the lower ones often lyrate. 

 The flowers ' form terminal or leaf- 

 opposed simple or compound, ebracteate 

 racemes. This genus includes half-a-dozen 

 species, 2 natives of Europe and Temperate 

 Asia. 



Xext to the Radishes come the other eight 

 genera of Baphonece, all plants whose fruit 

 is always elongated, generally inarticulate, 

 indehiscent, cylindroidal or moniliform, 

 either hollowed only by one many-seeded 

 cavity, or divided by the spongy more or 

 less irregular false-septa into one-seeded 

 chamberlets arranged in one or two rows. 

 These genera are : Cryptos/jom, Anchonium, 

 Raffe/iahlia, Parlatoria, Goldbachia, Chori- 

 sjjora, Sterigma, and Caqjonema. 



Fig. 242. 

 Fruit. 



m 



Fig. 243. 

 Fruit. 



aroense Wallb. — S. irmoamm Mcexch. — R. 

 segetum Baumg. — Durandea Delarbe., Fl. 

 cVAuv., 365 (nee Pi.). 



1 White, yellowish, or veined with purple. 



2 Reichb., Ic. Ft. Germ., ii. t. 3. — Besth.. 



Fl. Honqk., 17. — Eichx., in Mart. Ft. Brat. 

 Crvcif., 311.— Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 400.— Gren. 

 k (iODB., loc. cit., 71. — Walp., Rep., i. 18b; 

 Ann., ii. 55; vii. 178. 



