40 CAPPABIDACEJE. (CAPEE FAMILY.) 



■with no proper partition. Style long. Seeds as in the Mustard Tribe. — An- 

 nuals or biennials. (The ancient Greek name from pa, qaickly, and (fiaiva, to 

 appear, alluding to the rapid germination. ) 



1. R. RAPHANfSTEUM, L. (Wild Radish. Jointed Charlock.) Pods 

 necklace-form, long-beaked ; leaves lyi-e-shaped, rough ; petals yellow, turning 

 whitish or purplish, veiny. — A troublesome weed in fields, in E. New England 

 and New York. (Adv. fi-om Eu.) 



The most familiar representatives of this order in cultivation, not already 

 mentioned, are 



CheieAnthus CheIiii, the well-known Wall-flowee. 



MatthIola Annua, and other sorts of Stock. 



Hespeeis matronXlis, the Eocket, which begins to escape from gardens. 



BeAssica olerXcea, of which the Cabbage, Kohl-Rabi, Cadlielowee, 

 and Beooooli are forms : B. campestris, which furnishes the Swedish Tur- 

 nip or Rutabaga : and B. RXpa, the Common Tuenip. The latter becomes 

 spontaneous for a year or two in fields where it has been raised. 



RApiianus SAiivus, the Radish; inclines sometimes to be spontaneous. 



LuNiRiA REDivivA, tho MoONWORT or HoNESTT, with its broad flat pods. 



Ibeeis umbell^ta, the Candy-tuft, and Altssusi maeitimum, the 

 Sweet Altssum. 



LepIdium satIvum, the cultivated Peppeegeass. 



IsItis tinct6eia, the Woad, of the division NucumentacecE, having inde- 

 hiscent 1-celled fruit. 



Order 13. CAPPARIDACEjE. (Capee Family.) 



Herhs (when in northern regions), with cruciform flowers, hut 6 or more 

 not tetradynamous stamens, a l-celled pod with 2 parietal placentw, and kid- 

 ney-shaped seeds. — ^Pod as in Cruciferte, but with no partition, often 

 stalked : seeds similar, but the embryo coiled rather than folded. — Leaves 

 alternate, mostly palmately compound. — Often with the acrid or pungent 

 qualities of Cruciferse (as is familiar in capers, the flower-buds of Cappa- 

 ris spinosa) ; also commonly bitter and nauseous. Represented within our 

 limits only by the following plant. 



1. POlrATVisiA, Raf. Polanisia. 



Sepals 4. Petals 4, with claws, notched at the apex. Stamens 8-32, une- 

 qual. Receptacle not elongated, bearing a gland behind the base of the ovary. 

 Pod stalkless or nearly so, linear or oblong, veiny, turgid, many-seeded.— 

 Petid annuals, with glandular or clammy hairs. Flowers in leafy racemes. 

 (Name from ttoXvs, many, and avicros, unequal, points in which the genus differs 

 in its stamens from Cleome.) 



1. P. graveolens, Raf. Leaves vrith 3 oblong leaflets ; stamens about 

 H, scarcely exceeding the petals; style short; pod slightly stalked. — Gravelly 



