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5. LEAVENWORTHIA, Torr. 



Silique oblong or oblong-linear, compressed, often contracted between the 

 seeds. Seeds in a single row in each cell, orbicular, flat, winged. Embryo 

 straight or nearly so. Small annual or biennial herbs, with short 1 -few-flow- 

 ered stems, pinnatifid leaves, and yellow, white, or purplish flowers, on elongated 

 pedicels. 



1 . L. aurea, Torr. Leaves mostly radical, with 4-8 oblong toothed lobes, 

 the terminal one larger and rounded; raceme at length 4-10-flowered; style 

 manifest ; embryo straight. On flat rocks in the upper districts of Alabama 

 and westward. Plant 2' - 6' high. Flowers yellow. 



2. L. Michauxii, Torr. Leaves as in No. 1 ; flowers mostly solitary, on 

 radical peduncles ; style almost none ; embryo slightly curved. (Cardamine uni- 

 flora, Michx.) Rocks, Alabama and Tennessee. Flowers purplish or white. 



6. ABABIS, L. 



Silique elongated, linear, flattened ; valves 1-nerved. Seeds numerous, in a 

 single row in each cell, roundish, usually winged or margined. Cotyledons ac- 

 cumbent. Chiefly annual or biennial herbs. Radical leaves mostly pinnatifid ; 

 those of the stem sessile and often cordate or sagittate at the base. Flowers 

 white or rose-colored, in terminal racemes. 



1. A. hirsuta, Scop. Rough-hairy; stems mostly simple, erect, rigid, 

 very leafy ; radical leaves oblanceolate, obtuse, mostly entire ; those of the stem 

 lanceolate or oblong, clasping, sparingly toothed; silique pedicelled, narrow- 

 linear, erect, pointed with the sessile stigma ; seeds narrow-margined. Rocky or 

 sterile soil, Tennessee and northward. May. Stems l-2 high, often 

 several from one root. Leaves %'-l' long. Flowers small, the greenish-white 

 petals rather longer than the calyx. 



2. A. patens, Sulliv. Downy with spreading hairs, erect (1 -2 high); 

 stem-leaves oblong-ovate, acutish, coarsely toothed or the uppermost entire, half- 

 clasping by the heart-shaped base ; petals (bright-white) twice the length of the 

 calyx ; pedicels slender, spreading ; silique slender and curving upward, tipped 

 with a distinct style. Rocky banks near Nashville, Tennessee, and northward. 

 May. Silique 1 ' - 2' long. 



3. A. dentata, Torr. & Gray. Pubescent and roughish; stems slender, 

 diffusely branched, erect or ascending ; leaves obtuse, unequally and sharply 

 toothed, the lowest (2' -5' long) oblong-obovate, tapering into a slender petiole; 

 the others smaller, oblong, clasping and auriculate at the base ; racemes at length 

 elongated ; siliques scattered, narrow-linear, widely spreading, on short pedicels ; 

 petals whitish, scarcely exceeding the calyx. Tennessee and northward. May. 

 Plant about 1 high. Silique 1' long. 



4. A. lyrata, L. Stem smooth, branching from the base ; radical leaves 

 tufted, pinnatifid, ciliate, those of the stem linear or lanceolate and entire ; silique 

 pedicelled, very narrow, erect-spreading, pointed with the short style ; seeds with- 

 out margins. Mountains of North Carolina and northward. April -June. 

 Stems 4' - 10' high. Flowers white, the petals twice the length of the calyx. 



