TETRADYNAMIA— SILICULOSA. Camelina. 163 



A. maritimum. fVilld. v. 3. 459. Engl. Bot. v. 25. <. 1 729. Br. in 

 H. Kew. V. 4. 95. DeCand. Syst. u. 2. 31 8. 



A, minimum. Linn. Sp. PL 908. Herb. Linn. 



A. halimifolium. Curt. Mag. L 101. 



Clypeola maritima. Linn. Sp. PI. 910. Mant. 2. 426. 



Thlaspi Alyssum dictum maritimum. Bauh. Pin. 1 07. Moris, v. 2. 

 291. sect. 3. t. 16./. 1. 



T. maritimum. Dalech. Hist. 1393./. 



T. linifolium minus cineritium, flore albo. Barrel. Ic. t. 908./. 1. 

 good. 



T. narbonense Lobelii. Ger. Em. 267 .f. 



On banks and cliffs near the sea. 



Near Aberdeen. Prof. W. Duncan. At Budleigh-Salterton, De- 

 vonshire. Dr. Hooker. Not wild in the latter place. Bev. J. 

 Jervis. 



Perennial. August, September, , 



Stem much branched from the base, recumbent, leafy, tliough 

 woody not very durable ; and in gardens, where this plant i.s 

 cultivated for the sake of its honey-scented^oujers, it is gene- 

 rally treated as an annual. The herbage is hoary, or rather 

 glaucous, with close-pressed silvery hairs. Leaves linear-lan- 

 ceolate, tapering at the base. FL very abundant, in dense, tufted, 

 or corymbose, clusters, much elongated when in fruit. Pet. 

 roundish, of a brilliant white ; but in fading their claws, like 

 the stamens, assume a violet hue. Pouch orbicular, smooth and 

 polished, a little tumid, with one seed in each cell. 



320. CAMELINA. Gold of Pleasure. 



Crantz Austr.fasc. 1.17. Br. in Ait. H. Kew. v. 4. 93. Comp. ed. 4. 

 108. DeCand. Syst. V. 2. 5\4. 



Cal. equal at the base, oblong, deciduous ; leaves elliptic- 

 oblong, uniform, moderately spreading. Pet. obovate- 

 oblong, undivided, their claws rather shorter than the 

 spreading border. Filam. thread-shaped, simple. Anth. 

 oblong-heart-shaped. Germ, roundish. Style cylindri- 

 cal, erect. Stigma simple, obtuse. Pouch obovate, ob- 

 tuse, rarely globular, tumid, of 2 cells ; valves concave, 

 confluent with the permanent style ; partition membra^ 

 nous. Seeds numerous in each cell, oblong, compres.sed, 

 not bordered ; cotyledons incumbent. 



Upright, mostly branched, herbs, with oblong leaves, clasp- 

 ing the stem. Fl. yellow, in corymbose clusters. Pouches 

 erect, on long partial stalks. The incumbent cotyledons 

 oblige us to separate the present genus from Alyssum. 



The name of Myagrum, as Prof. DeCandoUe remarks, pro- 

 perly belongs to this genus ; but that is now appropriated 

 to M. perfoliatnm, and Camelina though barbarous, and 



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