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SPECIES L—CAMELINA SATIVA. Cranz 
Prates CXLI. CXLIL 
Myagrum sativum, Zinn. 
Pod obovate, margined ; valves very convex. 
Sus-Srecres —Camelina eu-sativa. 
Prate CXLI.* 
C. sativa, Reich. Ic. Fl. Germ. et Helv. Vol. II. Vetr. Tab. XXIV. Fig. 4292. 
“C, macrocarpa, Reich. Ic. F]. Germ. et Helv. Vol. II. Tetr. Tab. XXII. Fig. 4294, /3,” Fries. 
C. sativa, Fries, Mant. III. p.72. Gr. & Godr. Fl. de Fr. Vol. I. p.130. Boreau, Fi. 
du Centre de la Fr. ed. iii. Vol. IT. p.62. Coss. & Germ. Fl. des Environs de Paris, 
ed. ii. p. 124. Godr. FI. de Lorr. ed. ii. Vol. I. p. 70. 
Alyssum sativum, Sm. Eng. Bot. No. 1254. 
Pods obconical-obovate, rounded at the apex; valves hard, 
brittle, with a well-marked dorsal nerve. 
In flax fields, etc. Occasionally found throughout Britain, 
but cannot even claim to be a naturalized plant, being introduced 
with foreign seed, and not having permanently established itself 
in any one locality. 
[ England, Scotland]. Annual. Summer. 
Stem erect, 1 to 2} feet high, branched in the upper part. 
Lower leaves oblanceolate, attenuated at the base; upper leaves 
sub-amplexicaul, lanceolate or narrowly elliptical; the base 
produced into two short acute auricles, the apex acute; the 
margin nearly entire, slightly toothed, or rarely pinnatifid. 
Flowers } inch across, yellow. Sepals glabrous, with a mem- 
branous margin; petals one-half longer than the sepals, erect, 
spatulate ; raceme much elongated in fruit; pedicels ascending, 
2 inch to 1 inch long. Pods about } inch long exclusive of the 
style, which is about equal in length to half the greatest width of 
the pod, pale yellowish olive-colour when ripe; valves reticulated, 
very convex except round the margins, where the two valves are 
parallel to each other, so that the pod looks as if it were sur- 
rounded by a wing. Seeds numerous, small, slightly roughened, 
pale yellowish brown. Plant glabrous, or slightly hairy with 
forked hairs. Professor Babington says that he has not seen 
C. sativa (Fries) in Britain, but I possess specimens collected at 
Sandhutton, north-west Yorkshire, by Mr. Foggitt; and although 
the figure in English Botany, No. 1254, is not characteristic, it 
* The Plate is E. B. 1254, with pod added by Mr. J. E. Sowerby from a Yorkshire 
example. 
