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Plate 74. 

 CAKILE, Tourn. 



Silicula lomentacea biarticulata ; articulis crassis unilo- 

 cularibus monospermis ; semine loculi inferioris suspenso, 

 superioris erecto. Cotyledones planae (nunc oblique) accum- 

 bentes. — Herbae littorales, carnosas. 



Cakile, Tourn. Inst. p. 49. t. 483. Adans. Fam. 2. p. 423. Gasrtn. Fr. 



t. 141. R. Br. 1. c. (excl. spec.) DC. Syst. 2. p. 427. Deless. 



Ic. 2. t. 57. Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1. p. 119. Endl. Gen. 



4899. 

 Buniadis Sp., Linn. etc. 



i Sea-Rocket. 



Calyx nearly erect ; the sepals, especially the lateral, 

 somewhat gibbous at the base. Petals oblong-spatulate or 

 obovate, unguiculate, entire. Stamens moderately tetrady- 

 namous : filaments filiform or subulate, toothless. Ovary 

 oblong or linear, constricted below the middle into two su- 

 perposed uniovulate cells : stigma sessile, capitate. Ovules 

 of the two cells turned in opposite directions. 



Silicle thick and fleshy and when dry corky in texture, 

 lomentaceous, two-jointed, the lower joint obovoid or turbi- 

 nate, truncately two-toothed at the junction with the upper 

 one, which is ovate and quadrangular when dry or ensiform ; 

 the joints one-celled, one-seeded. Seed erect from the base 

 of the upper cell, suspended from the summit of the lower 

 one, oblong or oval, somewhat compressed, marginless, 

 smooth. Cotyledons plane, thickish, accumbent ; the rad- 

 icle inferior in the upper seed and more or less oblique (or 

 even incumbent?), superior in the lower seed. 



Herbs growing on the sea-coast, annual, smooth, with 

 much branched fleshy stems, and toothed or pinnatifid fleshy 

 leaves. Racemes terminal or opposite the leaves, ebracteate, 

 or leafy below ; the flowers white or purple. 



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