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large immarginafe ; funicle slender free. — A perennial herb ; rhizome 

 woody thick wrinkled ; crown stupose with bases of old leaves ; 

 leaves long-petiolate, largely crenate ; flowers 1 corymbose-racemose at 

 top of erect naked scape ; pedicels slender elongated patent, ebract- 

 eate 2 (Persia 3 ). 



112. Buchingera Boiss. & Hohen. 4 — Sepals equal at base, patu- 

 lous. Petals subspathulate entire. Stamens 0, toothless. Siliqua orb- 

 icular, much flattened, rather hispid ; style persistent subulate ; apex 

 stigmatose shortly 2-lobed; valves ribless net- veined, papillose 

 outside ; septum hyaline. Seeds solitary in each cell, inserted a 

 little below apex, descending orbicular much compressed margin- 

 ate-alate. — A small annual leafy herb, 5 hoary at apex with branch- 

 ing or glochidiate hairs ; leaves oblong dentate petiolate ; flowers 

 axillary ; pedicels curved (Persia 7 ). 



b. Camelinine.e. — Cotyledons usually incumbent. 



,113. Camelina Crantz. 8 — Sepals equal short. Stamens 0, free 

 toothless. Siliqua short obovoid, abruptly tapering into style ; 

 valves turgid, strongly concave within, produced at apex beside 

 base of style to a short reflexed apiculus ; margin often rather flat ; 

 replum linear rather prominent subcarinate ; septum obovate, nearly 

 as broad as valves, membranous entire ; style at apex stigmatose 

 minutely capitate entire. Seeds oo, 2-seriate immarginate ; funicles 

 short, bristly at base, adnate to septum or nearly free ; fleshy embryo ; 

 cotyledons incumbent. — Annual erect herbs glabrous or furcately 

 pilose ; inferior leaves often pinnatifid ; superior entire, cordate- 

 auriculate at base ; flowers 9 racemose, ebracteate {Middle and Southern 

 Eurojje, West Temperate Asia} ). 



1 White. 5 Aspect of Asperugo. 



2 An anomalous plant. Habit of many Saxi- 6 WLite. 



frames. Inflorescence of Isatis. 7 Spec. 1. P. axillaris BoiSS., loc. cit. ; Fl. 



3 Spec. 1. G. saxifragifolia BoiSS., loc. Or., i. 305. — Walp., Ann., ii .41. 



cit.; Fl. Or., i. 306.— Deless, Ic. Sel., ii. t. 8 Fl. Austr.,\. 17.— DC, Prodr., i. 201.— 



50. — Walp., Rep., i. 154; Ann., vii. 108. — Spach, Suit, a Pvffon, vi. 122. — Endl., Gen., 



Cochlearia 1 saxifragifolia DC, Syst., ii. 370. n. 4919.— B. H., Gen., 83, n. 72. 



4 Diagn. PI. Or., viii. 29.— B. H., Gen., 72, 9 Small, yellow. 



n. 30. 10 Spec. 1 (or, according to some authors, £—10, 



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