

VI. CRUCIFEE^: CAMELINE^. 



\_^iydmmn. 



F 



21. Ekysimum Linn. Treacle-Mustard. 



PocZ4-side(l; valves 1 -nerved. Hypogynous glands usually 

 2 opposite the placentas and between the longer stamena SeeL 

 smooth not margined, their stalk filiform. Stigma entire or 

 emargmate with the lobes patent. Cal erect. (Pubescence 

 appressed.) — JSTaraed from ipvio, to cure, on account of the sun 

 posed virtues of the plant. ^' 



I. E. cheiranthoides L. {Worm-seed T.) ; leaves lanceolate 

 entire or slightly toothed with stellato-tripartite hairs, pods 

 nearly erect 2-3 times longer than the spreading pedicels 

 stigma almost undivided nearly sessile. B. B. t. 942. ' 



_ Fields, gardens, and waste places. 0. 6—8. — One to two feet 

 high, branchea. Flowers small, yellow. Glands between the lar-^.r 

 stamens 2 lobed. '^ 



2. ^^. * orientdle Br. {Hare's-ear T.) ; leaves ..u-am- 



plexicaul, radical ones obovate, all glabrous glaucous and entire 



cordato-am- 



stigma entire. 



Fields and cllfFs near the sea ; Suffolk, Sussex. 0. 5_8 

 Flowers v^hn^ or cream-coloured. Calyx slightly bisaccate at 'the 

 base Glands wanting between the longer stamens, but the opposite 

 sepals glandular at the base, thus differing from the genus as limited 

 by C A. Meyer. 



Tribe VI. Camewne^. Pouch with the valves more or less 



or dor sally compressed, dissepiment oval or oblong. 



convex 



Cot. of. (Gen. 22 



) 



22. Camelina Crantz. Gold-of- Pleasure. 



Pouch obovate or subovate ; valves inflated, with a prominent 

 nerve at the base ; cells many-seeded. Filaments simple. 



1. 



dwarf or humble, and \ivov,Jii 



1 , . /^ 9^' (S<^mmon G.) ; pouch obovate margined, 

 valves hemisphjenca], stigma simple, calyx erect, leaves lanceo- 



late sagittate. 



Aljssum E. B, t. 1254. 



Fields occasionally among flax, with which it has been imported. 

 y 6, 7, — Stein 2—3 feet high, panicled above, usually more or less 

 pubescent. Leaves nearly quite entire, sometimes slightly toothed. 

 Flozvsrs small, yellow. Pouches very large, on long stalks. Seeds 

 scabrous. » ° 



23. SuEULARiA Lt7in. Awl-wort. 

 Pouch oval, pointless; valves turgid; cells many-seeded. 



Cotyledons linear, curved 



1 ^ * . _ 



leaves being subulate or awl-sliaped. 

 1. S. aqiidtka L. {AwUworf). E 



Named from subula^ an aivl; the 



