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ent (Kernera, Chrysochamela}). — Herbs, frequently perennial, gla- 

 brous, varying in habit ; leaves alternate, rarely rosulate, 2 entire 

 or pinnatipartite ; flowers 3 in ebracteate racemes simple or branching 

 more rarely in leafless solitary scapes {Temperate and cold Regions of 

 Northern Hemisphere*). 



"107? Pringlea Hook, f. 5 — Flowers usually those of Cochlearia 

 (?) ; sepals equal oblong. Petals and stamens . . . ? Siliqua oblong- 

 or ellipsoid-cylindrical, rather large turgid, 1 -celled; style short, 

 apex stigmatose capitellate ; valves concave ribbed ; septum or 

 very incomplete. Seeds oo, crowded ovoid; testa thick, spongy- 

 fleshy outside ; chalaza acute or acuminate ; cotyledons of fleshy 

 embryo subobovate accumbent. — A pubescent herb ; 6 rhizome thick 

 elongated prostrate ; leaves cuneate-rotundate, thickly imbricate into 

 a globe, entire concave ; " scape thick, simple ; raceme when fruiting 

 erect upright thick, ebracteate" 7 {Kcrguelen s Land 8 ). 



108. Vesicaria Lamk. 9 — Sepals equal, or lateral saccate at base. 

 Corolla of Alyssum (or more rarely of Cheiranthus). Siliqua globose 

 or inflated, crustaceous or more rarely membranous (Physojjtychis™), 

 sometimes laterally compressed or more rarely 2-dymous, u obtuse or 

 obcordate at both ends ; septum hyaline ; style slender ; apex simple 

 or 2-lobed ; lobes stigmatose erect or more rarely connivent [Clasto- 

 pus ]2 ). Seeds oo, sometimes marginate; funicles adnate at base to 

 septum. 13 — Herbs usually branching, hoary with short branching 

 or forked hairs ; leaves entire, sinuate or pinnatifid ; flowers 14 



1 Boisa., Fl. Or., i. 313. 9 III., t. 559.— DC, Prodr., i. 159.— Spach, 



2 In a few Oriental species. Suit, a Buffon, vi. 473. — Endl., Gen., n. 4869. — 



3 White, more rarely yellow or violet. A. Gray, Gen. III., t. 70.— B. H., Gen., 73, n. 



4 Spec, about 25. Reichp,., Ic. Fl. Germ., ii. 32. — Cystocarpum Spach, loc. cit., 471. 

 t. 17.— Deless., Ic. Sel., ii. t. 47-49.— Geen. io Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 260. 



& Gode., Fl. de Fr., i. 127.— Boiss., Fl. Or., i. " Sect. Physaria (Ntttt.). Gen. propr., ex A. 



245. — Walp., Hep., i. 153, 171 (Taphro- Geat, in Sillim. Journ., xxxiii. 14. 



spermum) ; Ann., i 37 ; ii. 200 ; vii. 127. 12 Bge., ex Boiss., Fl. Or., i. p. 261. 



s Fl. Antarct., ii. 238, t. 90, 91. — B. H., l3 In section Physaria (Nutt., ex B. H.), 



Gen., 76, n. 41. septum narrow and siliqua much compressed j 



6 " Brassicoid." cotyledons across septum. 



' " A genus hardly distinct from Cochlearia, u Large, or more rarely rather small ; yellow 



except by habit and seeds, with thick testa of or purple, 

 seeds." 



8 Spec. 1. P. antiscorlutica Hook, p., loc. 

 cit. — Walp., Ann., i. 43. 



