928 RAPHANUS. [CLASS xv. order in- 



short. Stigma obtuse, depressed, and notched. Seeds small, sub- 

 globose, numerous. 



Habitat. — Watery places, especially in a sandy district. 



Annual; flowering from June to September. 



4. N. amphi'bium, Br, (Fig. 1074.) Amphibious Nasturtium 

 Siliqua oblong, linear, about one-third the length of the slender 

 pedicles ; leaves oblong, lanceolate, serrated, or pinnatifid, smooth ; 

 petals longer than ihe calyx ; root tibrous, simple. 



English Flora, vol, iii. p. 195. — Hooter, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. 

 p. 253. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 23. — Sisymbrium amphybium, Linn. — 

 English Botany, t. 1840. 



Moot, long simple fibres. Stem long, branched, trailing, smooth, 

 angular, and furrowed, rooting from the axis of the leaves. Leaves 

 numerous, the lower submersed ones much divided in a pectinato- 

 pinnatifid manner, the upper oblong, lanceolate, sinuato-serrated, with 

 linear lobes, or simply but unequally serrated, all smooth, mostly 

 petiolated, and often auriculated at the base. Inflorescence terminal 

 and lateral sub-corymbose clusters of numerous crowded flowers, be- 

 coming elongated lax racemes in fruit. Calyx oblong, smooth, yellow, 

 spreading. Petals four, oblong, linear, entire, or notched at the end^ 

 longer than the calyx, a golden yellow colour. Fruit linear, oblong, 

 turgid, smooth, terminating in a short slender style, and crowned by 

 the obtuse capitate stigma, the pedicle slender, spreading, often three or 

 four times longer than the siliqua. Seeds seldom perfected. 



Habitat. — Banks of rivers, canals, and wet places; frequent. 



Perennial; flowering from June to August. 



This species is readily distinguished from the last by its longer 

 petals, longer and more slender pedicles, shorter pods, which are mostly 

 abortive, and by the shape of the leaves. 



GENUS XXX. RAPHA'NUS.— Linn. Radish. 

 Nat Ord. Crucif'erjE. Jdss. 



Gen. Chau Siliqua linear, or oblong, or sub-conical, smooth and 

 inseparable, or beaded, and separating at the joints, many 

 seeded. Seeds round, pendulous. Cotyledons conduplicate. — 

 (See Fig. 3, p. 872.) — Calyx erect. — Name f'*? quick, rapid; 

 and ^a,i,vofj.a,i, to appear; so called on account of the rapid 

 growth of some of the species. 

 1. R. Raphanis' trum, Linn. (Fig. 1075.) Wild Radish, or Jointed 



Charlock. Siliqua of one cell, beaded, striated; style slender, awl- 



shaped ; leaves simply lyrate. 



