Capseila.] III. CRUCIPEBAE. 33 



Pods shortly pedicelled, ^in.-Jin. long, laterally compressed ; valves boat- 

 shaped; style minutely 3-lobed. Seeds 3-5 in each valve. Septum incomplete. 

 —Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. PI. t. 1009 ; Buch. in Trans. N.Z.I, xiv. (1881) t. 24., 

 f. 1. Braya Novae-Zelandiae, Hook, f., Handbk. 13. 



SOUTH Island : Otago : Mount Alta, Hector and Buchanan ! Hector Mountains, Mount 

 Pisa and other high mountains further west, Dunatan Range, Mount St. Bathan's, Old-Man Range, 

 &o. 4,500ft. to 6,000ft. Petrie ! 



Var. glabra. Leaves larger, glabrate or pubescent, lobes ascending. — Sp. Buchanan, I.e., 

 t. 24, f. 2. SOUTH Island: Canterbury: mountain range, head of Lake Ghau. 5,000ft. Mr. 

 Buchanan remaiks : "The present plant may probably be considered as only a form of P. iVbuae- 

 Zelandiae produced by climatic causes." 



5. CAPSELLA, Medicus. 



Sepals spreading, equal at the base. Petals short. Pod ovoid, oblong, 

 obcuneate or obcordate, laterally compressed ; valves turgid, keeled below ; sep- 

 tum thin ; style short or 0. Seeds several, 2-seriate. Cotyledons incumbent. 

 Annual herbs with entire lobed or pinnatifid leaves. 



Etym. Diminutive of Capstila. 



A small genus, comprising about 10 species, found in the north and south temperate regions. 



1. C. elliptica, C. A. Meyer, Verz der Pflan. v. Caucas. 191. Glabrous, 

 much branched, slender, lin.— ,5in. high. Leaves lanceolate or oblong, the 

 lower petiolate, lobed, pinnatifid or lyrate-pinnatifid, iin.-Jin. long ; cauline 

 smaller, sessile, often entire. Racemes suberect, elongating in fruit. Pedicels 

 spreading, filiform. Flowers white. Petals scarcely exceeding the sepals. 

 Pod ovoid ; valves turgid, lanceolate. Seeds 10-15 in each cell. — -F. Muell., 2ud 

 Cens. Austr. PI. 10. C procumbens, Fries., Novit. Fl. Luce. Mant. i. 14 ; 

 Benth., Fl. Austr. i. 81. Stenopetalum incisaefolium, Hook. f. in Hook. Ic. 

 PI. t. 276. 



SOUTH Island : Otago : on cliffs moistened by sea-spray. Oamaru, Forbury Heads, Petrie ' 

 Sept., Oct. Also in Australia, Europe, West and Central Asia, North-west America, temperate South 

 America. 



*C. bursa-pastoris, Medic, Pflanzeng. 85. Erect, 6in.-18in. high, simple or 

 sparingly branched. Leaves sinuate-pinnatiifid, rarely entire ; cauline leaves small, 

 auricled. Flowers in erect racemes, minute. Pods on slender ascending pedicels, 

 triangular-obcordate, much compressed ; style short. Seeds numerous. 



Naturalised in cultivated and waste ground everywhere, except the Antarctic Islands. 

 Shepherd's purse. Sept. to April. Europe. 



♦SENEBIERA, Poiret. 

 Sepals 4, short, spreading. Stamens 2, 4, or 6. Flowers white, in short 

 racemes opposite the leaves. Pod small, didymous, indehiscent, compressed laterally ; 

 stigma sessile, slightly reniform or almost 2-lobed ; valves rugose or crested. Coty- 

 ledons incumbent. Leafy annuals or biennials. 



Flowers in small fascicles . . . . . • . ■ • • ■ ■ ..' S. Coronopus. 



Flowers in slender racemes . . . . . . ■ • . ■ . . . . * S. didyma. 



*S. Coronopus, Pair., Diet. 7, 76. A glabrous annual with short branches 

 closely appressed to the ground. Leaves oblong or obovate, 2-pinnatifid. Flowers 

 in small sessile or shortly-pedicellate fascicles. Lobes of fruit not separating, deeply 

 wrinkled. Seeds 1 in each cell. Style reduced to a subulate point. 



NORTH and SOUTH Islands: Naturalised in waste places, roadsides, &c. Eog's cress. 

 Nov. to April. Europe. 

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