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TETRADYNAMIA— SILICULOSA. Lepidium. 165 



. ^«^^. of 2 roundish lobes. Gf/vw. roundish. Sifj/i^f slender, 

 or wanting. Stigma obtuse. Pouch orbicular, or oblong, 

 transversely compressed, either entire or notched at the 

 summit, crowned with the style or stigma, of 2 cells; valves 

 keel-shaped, sometimes bordered ; partition very narrow, 

 crossing the greater diameter of the pouch. Seeds 1 in 

 each cell, pendulous, ovate, somewhat angular, or flat- 

 tened ; cotyledons oblong, incumbent. 



Glaucous or hoary herbs, of a hot pungent flavour. S(em 

 branched. Leaves very various. Fl. copious, white, mi- 

 nute. 



1 . L. lat'ifolium. Broad-leaved Pepperwort. 

 Leaves ovate-lanceolate, undivided, serrated. 



L. latifolium. Linn. Sp. PL 899. Willd. v. 3. 436. FL Br. 682. 



EngL Bot. V. 3. t. 182. Hook. Scot. 194. DeCand. SysL v. 2. 



548. FLDan.t.557. RaiiSyn.304. 

 Lepidium. Trag. HisL 88./. Fuchs. Hist. 484. f. Matth.Valgr. 



V. 1 . 557./. Camer. Epit. 378, 379./,/. 

 L. majus. Cord. Hist. 1 24, 2./. 

 L. Plinianum. Dad. Pempt. 7 15. f.7 16. Moris.v. 2. 312. sect. 3. 



L2\.f. 1. 

 Nasturtium n. 505. HaU. Hist. u. 1 . 2 1 9. 

 Raphanus sylvestris officinarum. Ger. Em. 241. f. Lob. Ic. 318./. 



In salt marshes, and wet sandy shady situations under cliffs, near 

 the sea. 



In several parts of Essex. Ray. Yorkshire. Dr. Richardson. Be- 

 low Sheringham cliffs, Norfolk. Mr. Humphrey. 



Perennial. July. 



Roots acrid, very long, creeping and branched, running deep into 

 the earth, and remaining for many years, if planted in sandy 

 ground far from the sea. Whole herb smooth, of a dull glau- 

 cous green, its flavour disagreeably pungent and bitter. Stems 

 a yard high, tough, branched, leafy, pale. Lower leaves a span 

 in length, ovate, serrated about the middle, on long stalks ; up- 

 per much smaller, and lanceolate, or linear, acute, nearly sessile, 

 entire. Fl. numerous, very small, white, in compound, leafy, 

 panicled, corymbose clusters. Stamens 6. Pouch elliptical, 

 crowned with the sessile stigma. 



A common Greek plant, the Lepidion of Dioscorides, who attri- 

 butes an acrid ulcerating quality to its leaves, and it still bears 

 the name of Lepidi in Attica. 



2. L. ruderale. Narrow-leaved Pepperwort. 



Stamens two. Petals none. Leaves smooth ; lower ones 

 pinnatifid, toothed ; upper linear, entire. Pouch notched. 



