MUSTARD FAMILY 



Slem. — ^Two feet high, bushy. 



Leaves. — Large, coarse, heart-shaped, toothed. 



FZowew.— Regular crucifers, in terminal and axillary racemes, pink- 

 purple. 



Silique. — ^Broadly oval, flattened parallel to the partitions; when ripe 

 the outside valves fall away and leave the thin, persistent, silvery parti- 

 tion with seeds clinging to it; seeds flat, winged. 



The characteristic of Lunaria which gives it garden value is the 

 extraordinary degree to which the seed-vessel is compressed. It 



varies between oval and orbicular 

 in outline, and when the valves 

 drop off the seeds remain attached 

 to a thin pearly membrane from 

 which they soon slip away. This 

 thin, translucent partition-disk has 

 given the plant the name Money- 

 wort, though it is commonly called 

 Honesty. 



Silique and Flower of Lunaria The plant aS a whole IS large 



and coarse, its flowers ordinary but 

 its curious flat seed-vessels, called the "Pope's: money," have 

 long been prized for winter bouquets, and it holds a record in 

 English gardens of more than three hundred years. 



SWEET ROCKET. DAME'S VIOLET 



Hesperis matronalis. 



Hesperis, evening, of Greek derivation; because the flowers of 

 some species are more fragrant in the evening. 



A vigorous, hardy, herbaceous perennial, forming clumps two to 

 three feet high; branched from the base and covered with showy, ter- 

 minal, loose spikes of four-petaled flowers resembling stocks. Native 

 to Europe and northern Asia. May, June. 



Stem. — Branching at base, two to three feet high, hispid-pubescent; 

 forming clumps. 



Leaves. — Alternate, ovate-lanceolate, three to four inches long, toothed. 



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