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nearly none. ^- Alpine summit of the White Mountains, New Hampshire. July. 

 — Mowers 1-5, white. Pods 1' long, tui'gid, the convex valves 1-nerved: so 

 that the plant might as well be an Arabis ! (Eu.) 



* * Root perennial : leaves pinnate : fiawers showy. 



4. C pratensis, L. (Cuckoo-i'lowbii.) Stem ascending ; leaflets 7- 

 13, those of the lower leaves rounded and stalked ; of the upper ones oblong or 

 linear, entire, or slightly angled-toothed ; petals (wliite or rose-color) thrice the 

 length of the calyx ; style short but distinct. — Wet places and bogs, Vermont 

 to Wisconsin northward ; rare. May. (Eu.) 



* # # Boot Uennial or annual : leaves pinnate ; flowers small. 



5. C Mrsuta, L. (Common Bitxek Ceess.) Mostly smooth in the 

 United States, sometimes hairy ; leaves pinnate with 5-13 leaflets, or lyrate- 

 pinnatifid ; leaflets of the lower leaves rounded, angled or toothed ; of the upper 

 oblong or linear, often onth'e ; petals twice as long as the calyx (white) ; the 

 naiTow pods and the pedicels upright ; style shorter than the width of the pod. 

 ( C. Pennsylvanica, Muhl. ) — Moist places, everywhere : a small delicate variety, 

 with narrow leaflets, growing on dry rocks, is C. Vikginica, Michx. (not of 

 Hb. Linn.) May-July. (Eu.) 



6. ARABIS, L. Bock Cbess. 



Pod linear, flattened ; the valves plane or convex, 1-nerved in the middle, or 

 longitudinally veiny. Seeds in a single row in each cell, usually margined or 

 winged. Cotyledons accumbent. — Flowers wliite or rose-color. (Name from 

 the countiy, Arabia. See Unn. Phil. Bot., (j 235.) 



* Leaves all pinnately parted : root annual or biennial. (Aspect of Cardamine.) 



1. A. LiUdoviciana) Meyer. Nearly glabrous, difi'usely branched 

 from the base (5' -10' high) ; divisions of the almost pinnate leaves numerous, 

 oblong or linear, few-toothed or incised ; flowers very small ; pods erect-spread- 

 ing, flat (9"- 12" long, 1" wide), the valves longitudinally veiny (not elastic) ; 

 seeds wing-margined. (Cardamine Ludoviciana, Soolc. Sisymbrium, Nutt.) — 

 Open fields, &c., Illinois, Kentucky, and southward. April. 



* * Stem-leaves, if not the root-leaves, uTidivided : annuals or doubtful perennials. 



■I- Seeds wingless or slightly margined. 



2. A. lyrata, L. Diffusely branched, low (4' -10' high), glabrous ex- 

 cept the lyrate-pinnatifld radical leaves ; stem-leaves spatulate or lanceolate, tapering 

 to the base, the upper entire ; petals (white) twice the length of the calyx ; pods 

 spreading, long and slender, pointed with a short stylo. — Rocks. April - June. — • 

 Radicle sometimes oblique. — A variety f from Upper Michigan and northward, 

 (Sisymbrium arabidoidos. Hook.) has erect pods, and the cotyledons often whol- 

 ly incumbent. 



3. A. dentata, Torr. & Gray. Roughish-pubescent, diffusely branched 

 (l°-2° high), leaves oblong, very obtuse, unequally and sharply toothed ; tliose 

 of the stem half-clasping and eared at the base, of the root broader and tapering 

 into a short petiole ; petals (whitish) scarcely exceeding the calyx, pods spread- 

 ing, straight, shoii-stalked ; style scarcely any. — "Sew York and Illmois to Virgin- 



