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pinnace; leaflets 7 — 13, ovate or ob!ong, sub-cordate, sinuate-den- 

 tate, glabrous.— Abundant in rivulets and extensively cultivated as 

 a salad. The only plant likely to be mistaken for it by watercress 

 gatherers, Apium nodiflbrum (see p. 204), has hollow leaf-stalks, 

 and serrated leaflets, which watercress has not. (Name from 

 nasiii tortus, a distorted nose, on account of the pungent pro- 



CHEfnANTHL-S CIIEIRT {M'n ilfltn^^EI'). 



perties of the genus. The possession of sinular pro.pertics 

 caused a M'idely dissimilar plant, the Tropiepluiii nl our gardens, 

 tf) be aiso originally called Nasturtiuifi.) — Fl. May — October. 

 Perennial. 



■"--- pio'cvers yellow, 



2 R. svh'esfi-is (Creeping Yellow Cress). — Kliizome creeping; 

 teni'ti deeply pinnatil'id ; Icaf-sei^iiients lanceolate ",/;W'(Vt minute ; 

 petals twice as long as the calyx ; pihls linear — Watery places. — 

 V\ June — September. Perennial 



