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NATURAL HISTORY OF PLANTS. 



septum narrow oblong very thin ; style short ; apex slightly capitate 

 stigmatose, 2-lobed. Seeds few suborbiculate rather compressed, 

 glandular tuberculate or echinulate ; funicles free or adnate to septum 

 at base ; radicle cylindrical incumbent. — Bather small annual gla- 

 brous herbs, one branching from base {Pastorea 1 ) ; the other 

 scapigerous, 1 -flowered; leaves sessile or petiolate, spathulate, entire 

 or 3-lobed ; flowers 2 either racemose {Pastorea) bracteate, or solitary 

 (Euionopsidium) ebracteate {Portugal, Sicily, Northern Africa*). 



148. NoccEea Reich b. j — Sepals patulous, equal or slightly 

 unequal at base. Petals entire, contracted at base. Stamens 6, 

 toothless. Siliqua elliptical or obovate-oblong ; style short erect, 

 apex stigmatose capitellate ; valves boat-shaped slightly compressed, 

 not keeled, usually 2-seeded. Seeds oblong ; funicles free ; coty- 

 ledons incumbent. — Rather small herbs ; leaves crowded ; radical 

 pinnatisect ; flowers 5 subcorymbose at top of scape, ebracteate 

 {Alpine Europe*). 



149. Capsella Moench. 7 — Sepals equal at base, afterwards patu- 

 lous. Petals much narrowed at base, rather short. Stamens 6, free. 

 Carpellary glands 4, interior to lesser stamens, more or less coales- 

 cent in pairs. Siliqua obcuneate or elliptical-oblong, compressed or 

 subterete ; valves much compressed, boat-shaped or triangular, 

 keeled ; septum narrow membranous ; style short erect ; apex 

 stigmatose minutely capitate. Seeds oc, wingless ; funicles free ; 

 embryo fleshy ; cotyledons incumbent or more rarely accumbent. — 

 Annual herbs, often weak, glabrous or pilose ; stem branching ; 

 radical leaves rosulate, entire or lobed ; cauline subentire, sometimes 

 sagittate at base ; flowers 8 racemose ; pedicles slender, ebracteate' 1 

 {Temperate regions of both Hemispheres™). 



1 Todar., PI. Sic, in Bert. Fl. Ital., x. 520; 

 Nuov. Gen. et Spec., fasc. i. 17. 



2 White flesh-coloured or violet, small. 



3 Coss. & Due., Fl. Alger., t. 72.— Waif., 

 Rep., i. 175; Ann., i. 44; vii. 155. 



4 Ic. Fl. Germ., 633, ii. t. 11 (nee. Jacq.).— 

 Endl., Gen., n. 2273 a.— B. H., Gen., 86, n. 90. 



5 White, small. 



6 Spec. 2. DC, Prodr., i. 177.— Geen. & 

 Gode., Fl. de Fr., i. 147 {Rui chins id). 



' Ex Vent., Tabl., iii. 110.— DC, Syst., ii. 

 383; Prodr., i. 177. — Spach, Suit, a Buffon,\\. 

 536.— Endl., Gen., n. 4927.— B. H., Gen., 86, 

 967, n. 88. — Hymenolobus Xutt. (ex Walp., 

 Ann., iv. 212). — Mierolepidium F. MirsiX., in 

 Linncea, xxv. 371. 



8 Small, white. 



9 A genus ill defined in limits, leaning on one 

 side to Mutchinsia, on the other to SmelowsA ia. 



10 Spec. 5, 6. Reiciib., Ic. Fl. Germ., ii. t. 



