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at base. Petals long-unguiculate ; blades twisted. Stamens 6 ; 

 glands small alternating. Siliqua panduriform, much laterally-com- 

 pressed ; apex 2-lobed ; valves flat-acute, undulate at edge ; style 

 very short, 2-lobed corrugated. Seeds oo, suborbicular ; funicles 

 long free. — A branching perennial herb, stellate pubescent branches 

 slender leafy ; leaves runcinate-pinnatifid ; inferior petiolate ; superior 

 (smaller) sessile; racemes terminal, ebracteate (California 1 ). 



135. Biscutella L." — Sepals equal (Thlaspidium 3 ), or lateral saccate 

 or spurred at base. Stamens 6 ; lateral glands 4, sometimes 

 descending in pairs to spurred sepals, elongated or horned (Jondraba*). 

 Siliqua 2-dymous, compressed ; valves orbicular compressed-keeled ; 

 septum narrow ; style elongated or more rarely short (Dithyreaf) ; 

 apex capitate. Seeds solitary in each cell, immarginate ; radicle 

 of compressed embryo accumbent descending. -— Erect herbs, 

 often hispid branching ; leaves entire or pinnatifid ; flowers shortly 

 racemose, ebracteate 7 (Mediterranean, California*). 



136. Brossardia Boiss. 9 — All sepals or lateral only saccate at base. 

 Petals tapering at base, sometimes subspathulate. Stamens free. 

 Siliqua slowly or hardly dehiscent, broadly orbiculate or subelliptical, 

 much compressed submembranous, entire at base and apex ; style 

 subulate ; apex capitate stigmatose apiculate ; septum linear ; cells 

 1-3-seeded ; valves very broadly winged papyraceous net-veined. 

 Seeds orbiculate much compressed ; funicles free, inserted at 

 middle of cell. — A perennial glaucous herb ; stem stupose at base, 

 frutescent fistular ; leaves ovate entire obtuse ; cauline cordate am- 

 plexicaul ; flowers 10 racemose (Persia"). 



1 Spec. 1. L. Coulteri Habv., loc. clt. — Jondrala. Sepals broad, saccate or spurred at 



Walp., Rep., v. 38. base ; lateral glands horned. 



' Gen., n. 808. — J., Gen., 239. — DC, Prodr., 8 As many as 20 species, according to authors, 



i. 181. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon, vi. 568. — Endl., but probably about 5. Keichb., Ic. Fl. Germ., 



Gen., n. 4889.— B. H., Gen., 91, n. 112. ii. t. 8.— Boiss., Fl. Or., i. 321.— Geen. & 



3 DC, Syst., ii. 409 (nee Spach). Godk., Fl. de Fr., i. 134. — Walp., Rep., i. 



4 Webb, Phyt. Canar., i. 193. ' 157; v. 38 (Bithyrea) ; Ann., iii. 821; iv. 203; 



5 In Hook. Jourri., iv. 77, t. 5. (The two vii. 163. 



Californian species are in some degree allied to 9 In Ann. So. Nat., ser. 2, xvii. 183. — B. H., 



Lyrocarpa, but, as regard fruit and structure of Gen., 91, n. 1L5. 

 seed, similar- to Biscutella proper. 10 White or pink. 



6 Yellow. n Spec. 1. B. papyracea Boiss., loc. clt. ; 



7 2 sections according to DC : 1. Thlaspidium. Fl. Or., i. 335. — Walp., Arm., ii. 45. 

 Sepals equal at b.ise ; lateral glands short. 2. 



