CRUCIFER2E. 



203 



ever, nearly always accumbent cotyledons. It includes nine other 



Aicbrieta deltoidea. 



Fig. 281. 

 Flower, perianth removed {\). 



Fig. 280. 

 Flower (f). 



Fig. 23?. 

 Lonir. sect, of flower. 



/ *< lla pst mlo- Cytisus. 



Camelina sativa 

 {Gold of pleasure). 



genera : Mefikea, Splicer ocardamum, Geococcus, Stenopetalum, Tropido 

 carp/nn, Blennodia, Mathewsia, Ammosperma, and Leptaleum. 

 Finally we make a third subseries, as 



artificial as the two others 



of the genera, Succovia, 



Pachycladon, Vella (figs. 



284, 285) and Carrich- 



tera, which in flower and 



seed come very near the 



BrassicinecB in Cheir- 



anf/iea, but possess a 



short, didymous or sub- 

 globular fruit, and hence 



may be ranked in Silicit- 



losae, like AlyssinecB and 



CamelinecB. 



Fig. 283. 

 Fruit (±). 



Fig. 284. 



Flower, perianth 

 removed (j). 



Fig. 285. 



Long. sect, of 



llower. 



YJ. THLASPI SEEIES. 



Thlaspi 1 (fig. 28C) has cruciferous flowers, with the sepals equal at 

 the base, and the petals equal or subequal, obovate and shortly 

 unguiculate. The stamens are tetradynamous, with a disk of four 



1 Dillen, Giess., 123, t. 6.— T., Inst., 212 175.— Endi., Gen., n. 4885.— Hook. f. & 

 (part.). — L., Gen., n. 802.— Adans.. Fam. des TiiOMS.. in Journ. Linn. Soc, v. 176. — B. H., 

 PL, ii. 421.— J., Gen., 241.— DC, Frodr., i. Gen., 91, 967, n. 116. 



