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The flowers grow in fmal] tufts at the extremi- 
* ties of the branches, and they are fmall and 
white. 
The feed-veffels are roundifh. and flatted, and 
the feeds are brown. 
Tt is common in the Greek iflands, and flowers 
there all the year round. We have it in gardens, 
where it alfo continues flowering many months. 
C. Bauhine calls it Thla/pi montanum fempervi- 
rens. Others, Thlafpi Creticum perenne flere atbo, 
Some, Shrub thlafpi. 
g. Buckler Thlafpi. 
Thlafpi capfulis didymis. 
The root is long, flender, and furnifhed with 
a few fibres. 
The firft leaves lie fpread upon the ground in 
a circular tuft: they are long, narrow, and 
deeply indented at the edges, and are of a pale 
green. 
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The ftalk ries in the midft of thefe; and is 
round, firm, upright, and of a whitifh colour, a 
foot high, and divided into branches toward the 
top. 
The leaves on this are few and fmall: they are 
of the fame pale green with thofe from the root, 
and are lightly ferrated at the edges, and fharp- 
pointed: they have no footftalks, 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the branches 
in little clufters: they are fmall, and of a pale 
yellow, 4 
The feed-veffels are very beautiful: they are 
thin and rounded, and they divide in an elegant 
manner ; two ftand together, with the ftyle be- 
tween them, 
It is frequent in Germany, and fome other 
parts of Europe, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Lhlafpi bifcutatum afperum 
hieracifolium majus. Others, Thlafpi chypeatum, 
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THE flower is compofed of four petals placed crofs-ways: they are of an inverted oval figure, and 
very fmall. The cup is formed of four {mall leaves, which ftand wide, and are oval and hol- 
low. The feed-veffel is fmall, and of an inverted oval figure, very little compreffed, and divided 
into two parts by a membrane which goes crofs-ways: the feeds are very fmall and round. ; 
Linnzus places this among the tetradynamia filiculofa; the flower having four longet and two 
fhorter threads, and the feed-veffel being a regular filicule. 
It is a new difcovered genus, and has never had any Englifh name. All the known fpecies of it 
are natives of Britain. 
3. Soft-leaved Subularia. 
Subularia foliis levibus. 
The root is a tuft of very flender and confi- 
derably long fibres. 
The leaves are numerous, flender, and long: 
they refemble rufhes ; but they are fmall: about 
two inches in length, often not half fo much, and 
of a pale green: they are rounded on the under 
part, flat on the upper, and fharp-pointed. 
The ftalks rife among thefe; and are naked, 
* very flender, jointed, and crooked, and about 
four inches high: at every knee or joint there 
ftands a fingle flower ; this is fmall and white. 
The feed-vefiel is alfo fmall, and the feeds are 
numerous and yellowith. 
It is found at the bottoms of deep ponds in the 
northern counties, and flowers under water in 
June and July. — 
Ray calls it Subularia eretta junci foliis mollibus 
acutis. 
2. Subularia with long, brittle leaves. 
Subularia foliis longioribus fragilibus. 
The root is compofed of numerous, long, and 
{mall fibres. 
The leaves are very flender, and fix or eight 
inches long: they rife in a confiderable tuft; and 
they are round at the back, flat in the upper fur- 
_ face, and of a pale green : they are tranfparent, 
and appear pierced full of little holes; and they are 
very brittle. 
The ftalk is flendey and round, and the flowers 
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are placed at diftances from the bottom to the 
top of it; they are fmall and whitifh. 
It is found in the bottoms of deep ftanding 
waters in Yorkfhire, and flowers in June, 
Ray calls it Subularia fragilis folio longiore et tt 
nuiores 
3. Firm-leaved Subularia, 
Subularia foliis rigidis. 
The root is compofed of many long and thick 
' fibres. 
The leaves are dblong, flender, and fharp- 
pointed : they ftand upright; and are of a deep 
green, and are very rough and harfh to the touch : 
they are rounded on the back, and flat on the up- 
per fide; and are biggeft at the bottom, and 
fmalleft at the extremity. 
The ftalk is upright, flender, and green: there 
are no leaves on it, but at diftances fingle flowers ; 
thefe are greenifh, and feldom quite open. 5 
The feed-veffel is fmall, and the feeds are nu- 
merous and brown. 
It is found in Yorkhhire, and other parts of the 
north of England, at the bottoms of fith-ponds, 
and flowers in Auguft. 
Ray calls it Subularia vulgaris eretta folio rigi- 
diffiimo. 
4. Creeping foft-leaved Subularia. 
Subularia repens folits mollioribus. 
The root is compofed of numerous fibres. 
The firft leaves rife like a, tuft pf fhort grafs, 
4A ftanding, 
