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VI. CRUCIFERiE : ALYSSINE^. 



wart, Scotland. ©. 5 — 



. - .^ - „. f«wc/j generally larger than in the W 



but certainly not niore elliptical or veiny than what we refer f 



that species; Zeares narrower and often more entire ; /owers lar^e 

 Ihe radtcal leaves are sometimes cordato-ovate, but usually oblo^'n'^" 

 never, so far as we have observed, broadly reniform or an</led • hfl 

 perhaps this and many other supposed species are only forms of th! 

 variable C. officinalis. ;■ "^ oi the 



11. KoNIGA Br. 



Koniga. 



PoucJi subovate; valves nearly plane; cells 1-ovuled and 

 1 -seeded; seed-stalks with their base adnata to the dissepiment 

 Cayx patent. Petals entire (white). Hypogynous glands 8t" 

 I;dame7its simple. —Name: revived by Mr. Brown, Trom thp 

 Komg of Adanson, and altered by him to Koniga In order to 

 commemorate the important services rendered to Botany bv 

 Mr. Konig of the British Museum. "^ ^ 



1. K *mantima Br. (Sea-side K, or sweet-Almsum). Alvs- 

 sum Willd. : E. B. t. 1 729. Clypeola L. ^ 



^ Near the sea, but only where escaped or ejected from gardens 

 .^udleigh Salterton, Devon ; on the garden-wall at Newlyn, Mount's 

 Bay Cornwall ; near Aberdeen. X- 8, 9.~Stem somewhat woody 

 at the bc^e. Leaves hnear-lanceolate, hoary with bipartite appressed 

 hairs. Flowers white and fragrant, honey-scented. The plant is 

 much cultivated. -Mr. Brown admits another species with several 

 alternate ovules in each cell; and some foreign authors have still 

 more extended the genus. In several genera, as Jralis, the number 

 ot hypogynous glands varies from 4 to 8. 



(Alyssum calyeinum Willd. has been enumerated as a British species- 

 but it IS unquestionably a plant recently introduced, either with seed-' 

 corn or ballast, though now established in several parts of England 

 and Scotland. It has simple filaments, and long subulate processes 

 instead of hypogynous glands, by which, and its persistent calyx, it 

 IS known from the rest of the genus. Berteroa incana DC, said to 

 have been found near Lewes and Weymouth, has also no claims to be 

 considered indigenous.) 



12. Draba Linn. 



WhItlow-fT 



Pouch or pod entire, oval or oblong ; valves plane or sllo-htly 

 convex, 1 -nerved at the base, nerved or veiny upwards ;^ce/& 

 many-seeded. Seeds not margined. Filaments simple.— Named 

 Irom cpa^, acrid, as are the leaves of many of this tribe. 



Petals deeply cloven, white. Erophila DC. 



1. D. vcriia L. {comman W.) ; scapes na] 

 somewhat tootlied hairy. £'. B. t. 586. 

 DC. — [3. pouch swollen. 



Erophila vulgaris 



Frequent on walls, rocks, and dry banks. ~^. abundant on shelv- 



