164 TETRADYNAMIA— SILICULOSA. Lepidium. 



apparently corrupted from Chamcelinum, (which in itself 

 would be totally inadmissible,) is not ill-sounding, and 

 has long been applied to our plant. 



* 1. C. sat'iva. Common Gold of Pleasure. 



Pouches obovate, bordered, twice as long as the style. 

 Leaves lanceolate-arrow-shaped. 



C, sativa. Crantz Austr.fasc. 1.17. Br. in Ait. H. Kew. v. 4. 93. 



DeCand. Stjst. v. 2. 515. Comp. ed. 4. 109. Hook. Scot. 198. 



Lond. t. 70. 

 C. sive Myagrion. Dod. Pempt. 532./. 

 Myagrum. Raii Syn. 302. Ger. Em. 273./. 

 M. sativum. Linn. Sp. PL 894. Willd. v. 3. 408. FL Dan. t. 1038. 



Cavan. Ic. v. 1 . 47. t. 66. Ehrh. PL Off. 407. 

 Pseudo-myagrum. Matth. Valgr. v. 2. 515./. Dalech. Hist. 1 137./. 



Camer. Epit. 901. f. also tertium 902./. 

 Sesama. Trag. Hist. 655. f. 



Moenchia sativa. Roth Germ.v.\. 274. With. 562. Hull \42. 

 Alyssum sativum. Fl. Br. 679. Engl. Bot.v. 18. t. 1254. 

 A. n. 489. Hall. Hist. t). 1 . 212. 

 Gold of Pleasure. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 48./. 11, 



In cultivated fields, chiefly among Flax, with whose seeds it is 

 often introduced from abroad, but does not long propagate itself 

 with us spontaneously. 



Annual. June. 



Root fibrous. Herb smooth, or variously downy, erect, IJ- or 2 feet 

 high, more or less panicled. Leaves alternate, acute, bright 

 green, 2 or 3 inches long, entire or toothed, clasping the stem 

 with their arrow-shaped base. Fl. small, pale yellow, their co- 

 rymbs soon becoming very long clusters of pear-shaped, bor- 

 dered, smooth, inflated pouches, tipped with the styles, which 

 latter are commonly longer than the figure in Engl. Bot. repre- 

 sents them ; the stigma withering, they become acute as the 

 fruit ripens, and are united at both sides with the valves, as 

 Crantz observes. Seeds 6 or 8 in each cell. 



The ridiculously pompous English name seems a satire on the arti- 

 cles of which it is composed, as yielding nothing but disappoint- 

 ment. 



321. LEPIDIUM. Pepperwort. 



Linn. Gen. 333. ^ Juss. 241 . Fl. Br. 68 1 . Br. in Ait. H. Kew. v. 4. 

 85. DeCand. Syst.v. 2. 527. Tourn.t. 103. Lam. t. 556. Gdrtn. 

 f. 141. 



Cal. equal at the base, with elliptical, concaA^e, nearly equal 

 leaves. Pet. obovate, undivided, equal. Filam. simple, 

 shorter than the petals, sometimes deficient in number. 



