50 ‘WEEDS AND USEFUL PLANTS. 
OvrtrvateD Cametina. Wild Flax. Gold of Pleasure. 
Fr. Cameline cultiveé. Germ. Der Leindétter. Span. Miagro. 
Root annual, fusiform, rather slender. Stem 18 inches to 2or three feet high, simple, 
agp: lately branching at summit, roughish-pubescent rs smoothish above. 
n som 
corymbose-paniculate, elongating ; Ltd half an inch to an inch long, without 
bracts. Petals pale yellow, rather eate or obovate-oblong, obtuse. Silicles 
about one-fourth of an inch long, with a keel- Sike margin on each side ; style about half as 
long as the silicle, persistent, finally splitting with the dehiscent valves, Seeds reddish 
yellow 
Cultivated fields : among wheat, flax, &.: introduced. Native of Europe. Fl. May- 
June. Fr. July . 
This was introduced with Flax, and remains as a weed where 
the Pitate of that plant has been abandoned. It y a popu 
lar notion that the plant was a kind of transmuted or degenerate Flax, 
an of er writers as Pseudo Linum ( )- 
is and the t nerates int 
would no longer hold a place among agriculturists, did they but a 
erly inform oe concerning the objects among which their 
8. CAPSEL’LA, Vent. Suepuern’s Purse. 
{Diminutive of the Latin, Capsula, a capsule ; in allusion to the fruit.) 
Pod —_ eet triangular-heart-s ng ; valves boat-shaped, 
coriaceous, winged ; cells many-seeded. owers small, in elongat- 
ing cabin: 
EC. et oe pac ar lent leaves mostly pinnatifid ; 
stem-leaves lanceolate -shaped, sess 
SuEPHERD’s Purse Ganeeh oN Purse. [ Pastor. 
Fr. Bourse de Pasteur. Germ. Die Hirten-tasche. Span. Bolsa de 
Root annual. Stem 3 or 4-18 inches ign ea more or Jess hirsute, and often branched. 
omar ss leaves 2 or 3-6 or 8 inches long. Hacemes at first corymbose, finally elongated. 
oo por B ipciic mnay introduced. are of Europe. Fi. April- September. Fr. 
Obs. This worthless little eva 2 is found in almost every field ; and 
is ouuabichce 4 so abundant as to be rather a nuisance. Such small 
weeds, however, can generally be suppressed by careful culture. and in- 
ducing a vigorous gr oi ae horstanta? pikaie 
9. LEPID’IUM, R. Br. Prrrercrass. 
Pod oe) ‘iaatt flattened contrary to the narrow Basocbae usually 
notched at apex ; 
the valves boat-shaped and keeled. a 
eoghyoell, ee amauta Stamens often only 2. 
