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.Tef.sdalia 



NlIDICAULIS 



(Naki'd-stalked 

 Tccsdalia) 



4. Teesdalia 

 I. T. nudkatilis (Naked-stalked Teesdalia).— The 

 only British species. A minute and not inelegant 

 plant, bearing several stems, which terminate in 

 small racemes of white flowers, the central stem 

 being alwaj's bare of leaves. The leaves are pin- 

 nate^ about half an inch long, and lie closely 

 pressed to the ground. Though widely spread 

 oxer England, it is not a common plant. Dry 

 banks. — Fl. May. Annual* 



5. Iberis {Candytuft) 



I. /. amara (Bitter Candytuft). — Plant 6 or 

 8 inches high, bearing its white or pink flowers 

 in a fiat head or corymb. Petals unequal, the 

 two outer larger than the two inner. An 

 occasional cornfield weed on calcareous soils. 

 — Fl. July. Annual. (Candytuft is a common 

 garden plant, and is piarticularly effective in 

 the rock garden.) 



6. Lepidium (Pepper-wort) 



1. L. latifolium (Broad-leaved Pepper-wort, 

 Dittander). — The largest British species, re- 

 markable for its dull glaucous hue ; plant 

 2-4 feet high ; leaves egg-shaped, pointed, 

 simple, smooth ; pouch oval, entire ; flowers 

 numerous, small, white, in leafy clusters. 

 In salt marshes and on the sea-coast ; rare. 

 — Fl. July. Perennial. 



2. L. ruderale (Narrow-leaved Pepper- 

 wort). — Smaller than the preceding, 6-12 



inches high ; leaves smooth, lower ones pinnatifid, 

 toothed, upper ones linear, entire ; petals wanting ; 

 stamens 2. Waste places near the sea. — Fl. June. 

 Annual. 



3. L. campestre (Field Pepper-wort). — Stem erect, 

 branched above, about a foot high ; leaves downy, 

 upper ones arrow-shaped at the base ; pod rough 

 with minute scales ; style scarcely longer than the 

 notch in the pod ; flowers very small ; anthers 

 yellow. Common. — Fl. July, August. Annual or 

 biennal. 



Lepidium Cam- ,„.,.. 



PESTRE (FifW 4- -f-- ^mitlin (Hairy Pepper-wort). — Leaves 

 PeppL'r-woit) downy, upper ones arrow-shaped at the base ; 



Lepidium Latifolium 

 {Broad'teaved Pepper- 

 wort) 



