72 THE CRUCIFORM FAMILY. 



uncommon, so I hope you will be able to examine its 

 curiously -jointed and beaked pod. Compare the pods 

 of the plants in this Family (in the order we have 

 examined them) and observe how gradually they have 

 become less complete in all their parts. 



The Wall-flower pod, with distinct valves, and 

 dissepiment; down to the Radish: which has neither 

 valves nor dissepiment. But all the flowers are so 

 truly cruciform, that they can well be thus linked 

 together; and each is so complete in itself ever true 

 to its own character, that it can ever form the " same 

 link in the chain.'* 



