CRUCIFER®. ili 
Section I.—ARTICULAT #.* 
Fruit with transverse partitions, generally breaking across into 
two portions, of which the lower is often abortive and stalk-like, 
and the upper portion 1- or many-seeded, and not splitting in 2 
valves. 
Tre IL—CAKILINEM. 
Cotyledons flat, with the radicle applied to their edges (accum- 
bent) or oblique. Pod rather short, without valves. 
GENUS I—CAKILE. Tournef. 
Sepals nearly erect, the two outer gibbous at the base. Petals 
equal, entire, with long claws. Filaments without teeth. Stigma 
sessile. Pod of two joints, which are indehiscent and without 
valves; the lower joint persistent, obconical, sub-truncate at the 
apex; upper joint deciduous, tetragonal-ancipitate; each joint 
1-celled and 1-seeded, or the lower one barren. 
Glabrous, branched annuals, with entire or pinnatifid fleshy 
leaves, and corymbs or short racemes of bractless white or lilac 
flowers. Pods in a lax raceme. 
French, Caquille. German, JJeersenf. 
Cakile is an old Arabic name appropriated to this or some allied genus. 
SPECIES I—-CAKILE MARITIMA. Scop. 
Puate LXXIX.+ 
Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. II. Vetr. Tab. I. Fig. 4158. 
Bunias Cakile, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 936. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 231. 
Upper joint of pod ensiform. 
On sandy sea-shores. Rather frequent all round the coast of 
Britain. 
England, Scotland, Ireland. Annual. Summer, Autumn. 
A bushy plant, with stems from 6 to 18 inches long, branched 
from the base; the branches curved, and ascending at the apex. 
Leaves 2 to 3 inches long, elliptical or oblong, pinnatifid or entire. 
Flowers } inch across, corymbose, with the peduncles about 
* In the arrangement of the genera I have slightly departed from that of Bentham 
and Hooker in their “ Genera Plantarum” in order to retain the divisions of Lomentace, 
Siliquosz, and Siliculose. 
+ The Plate is E. B. 231, unaltered. 
