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1. S. Coronopus DC. (common TT., Simnes-cre^s); fruit 

 undivided crested with little sharp points, style prominent. 

 Coronopus Ruellii Sm, ; JS. JB. t. 1660- 



Waste ground, not unfrequent in England^ Rare in Scotland. 0. 

 5 — 9. — A much branched spreading weed. I^eaves bipinnate, their 

 segments linear. Flowers very small, white, in lateral axillary corynabs. 

 Pouch large in proportion to the flower, curiously crested. Cotyledons 

 (in the whole genus) nearly as in Suhularia. 



2. S. didyma DC. (lesser TF.) ; fruit emarginate of two 

 wrinkled lobes, style very short. Coronopus Sm, FL Brit 

 Lepidium E. B. t. 248. 



Waste ground near the sea, in the south and south-west of Eng- 

 land ; about Exeter, Truro, Penrhyn, and Milfordhaven. Shore near 

 Caernarvon. South of Ireland. ©. 7 — 9. — Leaves once or twice 



scare 



Thli pinnate. 



^lanj: Tribe VIII. Isatibe^. Fruit shorty l-celled^ l-seeded^ with 



heeled scarcely dehiscent valves. Cot. o[[. (Gen. 27.) 



27. IsATis Linn. Woad, 



Fruit 1-celled, 1-seeded, laterally compressed; ?ra7ye5 keeled 

 or winged, eventually separating at the apex. Hypogyn 



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 glands between the longer stamens. — Name : laariQ of the 

 Greeks. 



1. I. * tinctoria L. (Dyer's TT.) ; fruit glabrous obovate- 

 oblong about three times longer than broad, radical leaves 

 oblong crenate, those of the stem sagittate. E. B. t. 97. 



Cultivated fields, about Ely, Durham, &c. $. 7. — Flowers yellow. 

 Cultivated for the sake of the blue dye which it yields, hence called 

 Glastum by the Romans, from glas, the Celtic for blue. Woad seems 

 to take that name from Guadum, now Gualdo, in Italy, where it was' 

 formerly extensively cultivated. 



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Tribe IX. Brassice^. Pod elongated. Dissepiment narrow. 



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28. Brassica Linn. Cabbage, Turnep, ISTavew- 

 PocZ2-valved (with a sterile, or one- or several-seeded beak), 



