THE CRUCIFORM FAMILY. 



II. SUB-OBDEB (ISTotorrhizeje) Cotyledons in- 

 cumbent (O . j|.) 

 10 GENERA. 



SlLIQUA. SlLICULA. 



1 Dame's Violet. 1 Gold of Pleasure. 



4 Hedge Mustard. 1 Awl wort. 



1 Garlic Mustard. 1 Shepherd's Purse. 



2 Treacle Mustard. 2 Wort-cress. 



5 Pepper-wort. 

 1 Dyer's Woad. 



SHEPHEBD'S PUBSE. 



We will examine one well known plant in this 

 division, a greater favourite with the birds than with 

 us, perhaps. But do not we like the " Shepherd's 

 Purse," as the food of the small birds, we like so 

 much and because it is scattered so freely for their 

 use ? A traveller* in Tibet, found it growing wild in 

 one spot there, though its true station is far, far north 

 of that warm country. 



[VII. TRIBE (Lepidinese) Pouch, with the valves keeled 

 or convex : or fruit short and indehiscent, two-celled ; dis- 

 sepiment very narrow. 



SHEPHERD'S PURSE. Capsella Bursa Pastoris. 

 Pouch, with the sides compressed, heart-shaped reversed 

 (05-cordato.) PI. II., 7. o. wedge-shaped or oval. The valves 



* Dr. Hooker. 



