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It is a native of Virginia, and flowers in 
May. 
The whole ‘plant has fome fome general re- 
femblance of Jhepberds purfe, but that it is fmaller, 
and in all parts more delicate, 
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Gronovius calls it Alum foliis radicalibus pin~ 
natis in orbem poficis caulinis lanceolatis Jiliquis com. 
prefs. We, Virginian Ladyfinock, 
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TOWER MUSTARD, 
TURRITIS, iin 
HE flower is compofed of four petals regularly difpofed crofs-ways; thefe are of an oval, but 
fomewhat oblong figure, obtufe, and undivided; and they ftand ereét, as do alfo their {mall bot- 
toms: the cup is formed of four little, erect, oblong leaves, and falls with the flower: the feed- 
veffel is very long, flender, and of a {quared fhape, but two of the ridges are very faint: the feeds 
are numerous and fmall, 
Linnzus places this among the tetradynomia Siliquofa, the flower having fix threads, of which four 
are longer than the other two, and the feed-veffel being a regular pod. 
As we have no fingle word in Englifh for the name of this genus, it will be proper to ufe the Latin 
name zurritis. 
De Ve PSERO.N 
1. Common Turritis, 
Turritis vulgaris. 
The root is a clufter of fmall fibres: the firtt 
Jeaves are numerous, and they form a thick and 
large tuft: they are oblong, confiderably broad, 
pointed at the ends, not at all divided at the 
edges, and they have no footftalks: their colour 
is a pale green, and they are rough on the fur- 
face. 
In the centre of this tuft rife the ftalks, which 
are ufually numerous: they are round, upright, 
not at all branched, and a foot and half high. 
The leaves on thefe differ altogether from thofe 
which rife from the root : they are of a heart-fa- 
fhioned fhape; but they run out into a long 
point ; and they are of a bluifh green colour, and 
perfectly fmooth, 
The flowers and feed-veflels, when the plant 
shas been fome little time in flower, ftand at the 
top of the ftalk ina long fpike, refembling a 
wower, or other tall, upright building, whence 
the plant has its name: the flowers are {mall and 
white. 
The pods are very long and flender, and they 
ftand parallel to the ftalk, and at no great dif. 
tance from it. 
The feeds are fmall, very numerous, and round. 
It is common in our northern countries, and 
flowers in June. 
C, Bauhine calls it Braffica fylueftris foliis inte- 
gris & bifpedis. Others, Turritis vulgatior, 
2. Jagged-leaved Turritis, 
Turritis foliis ferratis. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
many fibres. 
The firft leaves rife in a thick tuft, and have 
no footftalks: they are oblong, broadeft in the 
middle, ferrated at the edges, and fharp-pointed : 
their colour is a pale greenifh, and they are hairy. 
The ftalks are numerous, upright, not much 
branched, and about ten inches high. : 
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BRITISH 
SP an C. LES. 
The leaves on thefe are few, and ftand irregu- 
larly : they are of an oblong, and fomewhat oval 
figure, and are ferrated at the edges, and pointed 
at the end, i ; t 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks 
and are fmall and white. ; 
The feed-veffels: are flender and long, and the 
feeds are very fmall and brown. 
It is found on walis, and on dry ditch banks 
in many places, and flowers in May. 
C. Bauhine calls it Ery/imo fimilis hirfuta non la- 
cinata alba; but this, though copied by fome, is 
an ill chofen, as well as aukward name 3 the 
plant is much more like the common turritis, 
3, Oval-leaved Turritis, 
Lurritis foliis ovatis, 
The root is fmall and thready. 
The firft leaves are difpofed irregularly in g 
little tuft: they are fupported on fhort, flender 
footftalks, and are of an oval form, obtufe at the 
end, very flightly ferrated at the edges, and fome- 
what hairy : their colour is a faint green, and they 
are of a tender fubftance, 
The ftalks rife in the centre of this tuft four 
or five together: they are very flender, uprighe, 
and of a whitifh green. ~ 
The leaves ftand irregularly on them, and ar 
numerous : they are alfo of an oval figure, but’ 
they have no footftalks; and they are of a pale 
glofly green colour, and not at all hairy. 
The flowers ftand at the top of the ftock in a 
little tuft, and.they are fmall and white. 
The feed-veffels are long and flender, and they 
ftand out from the ftalk : when the plant has been 
a little while in flower, there is a kind of fpike of 
thefe, a third part of its length. 
The feeds are finall and yellowith, 
We have it on ant-hills, in dry paftures, and 
on ditch banks in fome places. It flowers in 
April, : 
Petiver calls ic Turritis mnor foliofa, Ray, 
$f Brafica 
