48 HESEDACE.E. [Cramh( 



XXII. Ceambe, Linn. Kale. 



" Fruit without valves, the upper joint globose, deciduous, 

 bearing one inverted seed upon a stalk arising from the bottom of 

 the cell ; lower joint resembling a pedicel." — Br. Fl. 



1. C. niaritima, L. Sea Kale. Sea Colewort. 



On cliffs by the sea, aud on tlie loose sandy beach ; very rave. A single plant 

 on the shore at Norlou (leaves only), Iw:!?. 



The Sea Kale abounds on the sandy beach at Calshot castle, where the young 

 shoots are blanched by covering them with sand, and are afterwards sent to Soulh- 

 ampton market for sale. 



Order VII. RESEDACE^, DC. 



" Calyx of several narrow sepals. Petals unequal, mostly laci- 

 niated. Stamens 10 — 24, inserted upon a glandular irregular 

 disk. Ovary sessile, 3 — 4-lobed, 1-celled, with 3 — 4 parietal pla- 

 centas bearing xadJiy seeds (or of 4 — 6 verticillate 1-celled carpels). 

 Stifpnas sessile, one to each placenta and alternate with it. Fruit 

 opening in an early stage at the extremity along the line of the 

 placentas." — Br. Fl. 



I. Reseda, Linn. Rocket. 



" Calyx of 1 piece, many-parted. Petals more or less divided 

 and unequal. Capsule of 1 cell, opening at the top. Stigmas 

 3—4."— Br. Fl. 



1. R. Luteola, L. Dyer's Rocket. Yellow-weed or Weld. 

 " Leaves long lanceolate undivided, calyx 4-partite, stigmas 3." 

 —Br. FL p. 43. E. B. t. 820. 



In waste ground, old chalk-pits and woods, on walls, cliffs, banks, and by way- 

 sides, mostly on calcareous soils, abundant in many places. Fl. June — Septem- 

 ber. Fr. September, October. 3" or . ? 



E. Med. — Abundant on denuded chalk banks in Ventnov Cove and elsewhere 

 about that town. In Binstead stone-pits and in other places about Kyde. Near 

 Carisbrooke, along the Undercliff, &c. On the chalk-cliffs at the south end of 

 Whitecliff bay, in plenty. Plentiful in the marl-pit by Upper Morton farm, and 

 in the chalky hollow on the left descending Morton Shoot. Woods at Apse 

 down, frequent. 



W. Med. — At Freshwater Gate. 



Herb totally glabrous. Root tapering, tough and woodyj simple or more fre- 

 quently with several very long, cylindrical, slender branches, and having a power- 

 ful odour of Horse-radish. Stem straight, erect, pale green, from 1 to 4 or even 6 

 feet in height, densely clothed with leaves, rounded, hollow, subalately angular and 

 furrowed by the decurrent corners and midribs of the leaves, in very small plants 

 often quite simple, in larger more or less copiously branched generally towards 

 the summit only, at other times emitting numerous ascending virgate branches 

 from the very base, forming a thick bush, or sometimes ramified throughout, the 



