TETRADYNAMIA SILICULOSA. Lepidium. 183 



Class XV. TETRADYNAMIA. Stamens 6. 

 Order I. SILIGUL OS A, Pistil 1 . 



DRABA. AVhitlow-grass. 



D. verna. Common IVTiitlow-grass. Stalks imme- 

 diately from the root, naked. Petals deeply cloven. 

 Leaves spear-shaped, some^yhat notched, hairy. E. B. 

 586. C. 1. 49. Paronychia vulgaris. G. E. 624. 



Walls, banks, dry, waste ground. 

 An. March. 



Fl. -stalks two or three inches, erect, simple, leafless. Fl. white, 

 small, in a cor;)Tnb of many_^., soon lengthened into a some- 

 what zigzag raceme. Pouch elliptical, smooth, crowned with. 

 the permanent, stalkless stij. Ls. flat on the gi'ound, in a circle 

 round the root ; hairs simple, and forked also. 

 TMs unattractive plant, with its small, starry blossoms is viewed 

 with pleasure from its early appearance : somewhat pungent, said 

 to be good as a salad. Stalk and fl. drooping in the night, and in 

 rainy weather. The true ^Yhitlow-grass is not easily ascertained. 



CAMELFNA. Gold of Pleasure.' 



* C. sativa. Common G. Pouches inversely egg- 

 shaped, margined, style simple. Leaves spear-arrow- 

 shaped. Alyssum sativum. E. B. 1254. Myagrum. 

 G. E. 273. 



Cultivated fields. * Third field past Joe PuUen's tree, to Heading- 

 ton Hill. R. W. 1832. 

 An. June, July. ~ 



Plant two f. or more; more or less panicled above, i^/. small, 

 pale yellow. Seed-pouches pear-shaped, large, on long foot- 

 stalks, tipped with the styles, wliicli are, according to Smith, 

 commonly longer than represented in E. B, 



LEPrDIUM. Pepper-wort. 



L. campestre. Common Mithridate P. Pouch scaly, 

 with glandular dots, notched ; bordered at the summit. 

 Style very short. Stem-leaves arrow-shaped, toothed. 

 Thlaspi campestre. E. B. 1385. C. 5. 45. Sb. 

 199. /3. G. E. 262. T. vulgat. 



Cultivated fields. Southleigh. Stanton Harcourt. Sb. Between 



BuUingdon Green, and Shotover Hill. B.r. 

 An. June. 



' A pompous name not at all applicable to this homely species. 



