BRITISH HERBAL 
See eee eee 
BEORLAMIDHAOHOSSOSOIAOLDGTSIGOIOIS 
CLA S5Sym AVE 
Plants whofe flower is compofed of tour rnvars, placed cro/s-waysy and 
whofe feed-veffel is a SHORT POD 07 SHALE. 
preceding clafs ; except in this, of the fhape and ftructure of the fruit, which is always truly 
diftin&, and is an effential claffical charaéter. The /ilicula, or fbale, is of a rounded or 
flightly angulated form, and is terminated by a long point which was in the flower, the ftyle. It is 
always compofed of two fides or valves, and fplits open lengthwife along their edges. 
Linnzus places this clafs among the tetradynamia, diftinguifhing it after the manner of moft others » 
from the filiquofe plants, or thofe whofe feed-veffel is a regular pod, only by a fubordinate arrange- 
ment. The difference, however, is fufficient very well to fupport the difpofing them in feparate 
claffes; and hence will atife lefs confufion. The young botanift will always find his progrefs in the 
feience the eafier, the greater is the number of diftinétions, provided: they have juft foundation in 
nature. His perplexity always arifes from the great number under one general head. 
"Tee are the plants authors call filiculofe. They agree in all refpects with thofe of the 
is 4b Raber: S$: ak 
Natives of BRITAIN, 
Thofe of which one or more fpecies are found naturally wild in this country, 
Ge ie, INS aS I. 
SEA COLEWORT. 
\ GaR tid UMMER wns 
HE flower is compofed of four petals, which are placed regularly in a crofs direction ; thefe are 
of an oval figure, and have very flender bottoms: the cup is formed of four little leaves, of an 
oblong, oval figure, and falls with the flower: the feed-veffel is of an irregular figure, roundifh, 
but fomewhat oblong, and raifed into four ridges, which terminate in one or more points. 
This fingular genus feems intended by nature to connect the filiquofe and the filiculofe kinds, or 
thofe with long and fhort pods, whofe flowers are alike: accordingly authors have been divided in 
opinion under which of thefe two heads to arrange it. Ray places it among the filiculofe, and Lin- 
ngus among the filiquofe: but the ftructure of the pod, when carefully examined, determines for the 
firft named diftribution, 
Linnaus ranges it among the tetradynamia ; four of the fix threads in its flower being longer than 
the other two, as in the reft of this, and the preceding clafs, : 
As we have no proper Englith name for the genus, it will be more proper to ufe the name cramle. 
Linnzus 
