148 ENGLISH BOTANY. 
emarginate, with a thickened margin. Seeds ovoid or oblong, 
without a wing (rarely margined at the apex). 
Annual or biennial plants, more rarely perennial, often clothed 
with starlike pubescence. Leaves entire, toothed or sinuated; the 
lower ones attenuated into a petiole; the stem leaves sessile. 
Flowers small or moderately large, usually yellow, disposed in 
corymbs, which afterwards lengthen into lax racemes. 
French, Vélar. German, Hederich. 
This generic name is derived from epyw (ero), I draw, or I cure, on account of its 
supposed salutary effects in medicine, many of which are still believed in. 
Sus-Genus I.—CONRINGIA. JD. C. 
Petals with the limb erect. Stem leaves with the base cordate- 
amplexicaul. Plants glabrous and glaucous. 
SPECIES lI-—ERYSIMUM ORIENTALE. BR. Brown. 
Prate CI.* 
Conringia orientalis, eich. Ic. Fl. Germ et Helv. Vol. II. Zetr. Tab. LXI. Fig. 4382. 
Brassica orientalis, Linn. Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1804. 
Brassica perfoliata, Lamarck, Dict. Vol. I. p. 748. 
Erysimum perfoliatum, Crantz. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de. Fr. Vol. I. p. 90. 
Stem leaves oval-oblong, cordate-amplexicaul, entire. Pods 
spreading; valves with 1 nerve. Pedicels about one-sixth or one- 
eighth the length of the pod. 
In fields and on cliffs near the sea, but apparently not perma- 
nently naturalized. Reported, on old authority, from the cliffs 
near Harwich, as also at Bawdsey, near Orford, Suffolk (Dale). In 
fields near Godstone and Marshfield, Sussex (Huds.); and more 
recently the Rev. J. 8. Tozer states that it came up spontaneously 
in a field that had been ploughed to form a garden in the centre of 
the new square at Plymouth. 
[ England, Ireland]. Annual. Summer. 
Stem erect, 8 inches to 2 feet high, simple or slightly branched. 
Lowest leaves obovate, gradually attenuated to the base; stem 
leaves elliptical, blunt, clasping the stem by 2 rounded auricles. 
Flowers about + inch across, cream-coloured. Fruit pedicels about 
3 inch long. Pods 8 to 4 inches long, quadrangular, slightly 
* The Plate is E. B. 1804, unaltered. 
