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CRUCfFER.B 



_flowcrs minute, white, in short lateral racemes ; fods reniform, 

 indehiscent, or splitting into two indehiScent lobes ; seeds one in 

 each lobe. (Name from the Greek koro/ios, a raven, />oi/s, foot.) 



I. C. didvmi/s (Lesser Wart-cress). — Sle/>i prostrate, branched, 

 slender, hairy, a foot or more in length* leaves finely pinnatifid 

 or bi-pinnatifid ; pods separating into two hard, wrinkled lobes. 

 Waste groiind near the sea in south-west! It emits a very power- 



i^Lcsstr Wart-L 



ful smell, like that of I'epiJer-cress, especially when trodden on, 

 or m hot weather; and has a particularly nauseous taste. — Fl. 

 July — .September. Annual. 



2. c: pivei'iinbens (Wart-cress or Swine's cress). —Glabrous, less 

 branched and with larger, less divided h-iives and larger pods 

 than C. didv/iii/s. The pods are indehiscent. A conunon ixiad- 

 side weed. ~F1. June— September. Annual. 



23. LkpfuruM (Pepperwort).— Herbs with small \\h\\.e /faiivrs ; 

 some of the peta/s or siaineiis often absent ; pods rounded or 

 obcordate, much compressed, generally ^-seeded ; valves keeled 



