200 TETRADYNAMIA— SILIQUOSA. Erysimum. 



a little branched, tinged at the bottom with a violet hue. Ra- 

 dical leaves the first year numerous, spreading on the ground, 

 lyrate, with a rounded toothed terminal lobe, being much like 

 the first species, but of a more neat and regular figure ; the 

 stem-leaves are often partly lyrate also, but the upper ones are 

 deeply and regularly pinnatifid, with parallel, linear-oblong, 

 bluntish, entire segments. Fl. fewer, smaller and paler than 

 those of B. vulgaris. Pods thrice as long as in that species, ex- 

 actly square, smooth. Shjle short, with a blunt, but not large, 

 stigma. 

 This species, undoubtedly very distinct from the foregoing, pro- 

 pagates itself abundantly by seed, but the root is not perennial. 

 It may be eaten like Water Cresses, with which it agrees in fla- 

 vour, except being rather more pungent. 



336. ERYSIMUM. Treacle-mustaid. 



Linn. Gen. 339. Juss.239. Fl. Br. 7 06. Cowp. erf. 4. 108. Br. 



in Jit. H. Kew. v. 4. 115. DeCand. Syst. v. 2. 490. Gartn. 



t. 143. 

 Alliaria. DeCand. Syst. v. 2. 488. 



Cal. very nearly equal at the base ; leaves oblong, concave, 

 erect, slightly coloured, deciduous. Pet. obovate-oblong, 

 obtuse, flat, their claws erect, die length of the calyx. 

 Filam. thread-shaped, simple, distinct, upright, with a 

 gland between the shorter one at each side, sometimes 

 also between the 2 longer ones, and the pistil. Anth. 

 roundish-obldng, Vather spreading. Germ, oblong, qua- 

 drangular. Style very short. Stigma small, capitate, 

 notched, permanent. Pod sessile, linear, equally qua- 

 drangular ; valves concave, keeled, rectangular ; parti- 

 tion membranous, crowned with the style, and the mqre 

 or less deeply 2-lobed stigma. Seeds ovate, without a 

 border, disposed in a single row ; cotyledons flat, incum- 

 bent. 



Herbs various in duration, erect, branched, either smooth, 

 downy, or finely bristly. Leaves simple, often lanceolate 

 and nearly entire. Fl. corymbose, yellow, sulphur-co- 

 loured, or white. Pods in very long upright clusters. 

 Qualities warm and pungent. 



1 . E. cheiranthoides . Worm-seed Tieacle-mu&tard. 



Leaves lanceolate, obscurely toothed, roughish with close 

 forked bristles. Pods erect, on horizontal stalks. Stig- 

 ma almost sessile. 



E. cheiranthoides, Linn. Sp. PI. 923. fVilld. f. 3. 5 1 1 . Fl. Br. 



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