198 TETRADYNAMIA-SILIQUOSA. Barbarea. 



Seriphium gernianiciim. Trag. Hist. 338./. Bauh. Hist. v. 2. 886./. 

 S. Absinthium. Fuchs. Hist. 2./. 

 Descurea. Guett. Obs. v. 2. 1 64. 



About rubbish, dry banks, waste ground, and dunghills, very fre- 

 quent. 



Annual. July — September. 



Root small and tapering. Whole plant of a slender delicate struc- 

 ture, about 2 feet high. Stem branched, bushy, erect, a little 

 downy. Leaves doubly and very deeply pinnatifid, with fine, 

 downy or hairy, linear-lanceolate, entire segments. Fl. small, 

 greenish yellow, their petals concealed by the cahjx. Pods very 

 numerous, erect, somewhat curved, slender, about an inch long, 

 rugged, or beaded, from the projection of the numerous minute 

 seeds, and composing long erect clusters, with spreading partial 

 stalks. 



Sophia Chirurgorum, " the Wisdom of Surgeons," would not be 

 evinced by any reliance on this herb for the cure of fractured 

 limbs ; nor are its antidysenteric virtues, to which its old En- 

 glish name alludes, better ascertained. 



335. BARBAREA. Winter-cress. 



Br. in Ait, H. Kew. v. 4. 109. DeCand. Syst. v. 2. 205. Comp. erf. 4. 

 108. 



Cal. nearly equal at the base, erect ; leaves oblong, con- 

 cave, somewhat coloured, deciduous. Pet. obovate, ob- 

 tuse, undivided, flat; claws nearly the length of the calyx. 

 Filam. awl-shaped, simple, distinct, erect, with a gland. 

 at each side between the 2 shorter ones and the pistil. 

 Germ, oblong, quadrangular. Style short, cylindrical. 

 Stigma obtuse, simple. Pod linear, with 4- angles, slightly 

 compressed ; valves concave, keeled, even and straight ; 

 partition membranous, thick-edged. Seeds ranged alter- 

 nately, in a single row, ovate, flattish, not bordered ; co- 

 tyledons flat, accumbent. 



Upright, smooth, dark green, perennial or biennial herbs. 

 Stems rather angular. Lonxier leaves lyrate ; upper pin- 

 natifid or toothed. Fl. yellow. Pods erect, rather stout, 

 in long clusters. 



1. B. vulgaris. Bitter Winter^cress. Yellow Rocket. 



Lower leaves lyrate, the terminal lobe roimdish ; upper 

 obovate, toothed. 



B. vulgaris. Br. in Ait. H. Kew. v. 4. 109. DeCand. Syst. v. 2. 

 206. Comp. ed. 4.112. Hook. Scot. 200. 



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