CRTJCIFEEAE (MUSTARD FAMILY) 



42'! 



1. C. SATiTA (L.) Crantz. Annual ; leaves 

 lanceolate and arrow-shaped ; pods large (6-7 

 mm. broad), on pedicels 1.2-3 cm. long. — A 

 weed ill newly planted fields, etc. (Nat. from 

 Eu.) EiG. 750. 



750. 0. sotiva. 2. C. mickooArpa Andrz. More slender; 



Part of fruiting racemes long; pedicels 8-18 mm. in length; 



raceme x 14. pods smaller, 4-5 mm. broad. ( C. silvestris 



Wallr.) — Roadsides, newly seeded fields, etc. 



(Nat. from Eu.) Fig. 751. 



751. C. microcarpa 



Part of fruiting; 



raceme x %. 



12. NESLIA Desv. Ball Mcstakd 



Pod subglobose, compressed, beaked, indehiscent, 1-celled or 

 obscurely 2-celled, the surface reticulated. Seed 1 (rarely 2). 

 Cotyledons incumbent.- Style slender. Flowers small, yellow. 

 (Named for J. A. N. de Nesle of Poitiers.) 



1. N. PANicuLiTA (L.) Desv. Slender annual or biennial, 

 somewhat stellate-pubescent, simple up to the inflorescence ; 

 leaves oblong, sagittate-clasping ; racemes elongate ; pedicels 

 slender, spreading, 5-9 mm. long ; capsule 2-3 mm. in diameter. 

 — Grain fields and waste places, e. Que. to B. C, locally s. to 

 Pa. (Nat. from Eu.) Fig. 752. 



13. CAKJLE [Tourn.] Ludwig. Sea Rocket 



Pod short, 2-jointed across, fleshy, upper joint separating at maturity ; each 

 joint indehiscent, 1-celled and 1-seeded, or the lower sometimes seedless. Seed 

 erect in the upper, suspended in the lower joint. Cotyledons obliquely acoum- 

 bent. — Seaside fleshy annuals. Flowers purplish. (An old Arabic name.) 



1. C. edfntula (Bigel.) Hook. (American S.) Leaves obovate, sinuate and 

 toothed ; lower joint of the fruit obovoid, eraarginate ; the upper ovate, flattish 

 at the apex. (C. americana Nutt.) — Atlantic coast and shores of the Great 

 Lakes. July-Sept. — Joints nearly even and fleshy when fresh ; the upper one 

 4-angled and appearing more beaked when dry. 



753. N. paniculata. 

 Part of fruiting 

 raceme x 2/3. 

 Pod X IV3. 



768. E 

 Pod X 



14. RAPHANUS [Tourn.] L. Radish 



Pods linear or oblong, tapering upward, indehiscent, several-seeded, 

 continuous and spongy within between the seeds, or necklace-form by 

 constriction between the seeds, with no proper partition. Style long. 

 Seeds spherical and cotyledons conduplioate. — Annuals or biennials. 

 (Name from pg, quickly, and <pa.lveiT0ai., to appear, alluding to 

 the rapid germination.) 



L-- 1. R. RAPHANfSTRDM L. (WlLD R., JOINTED ChAELOCK.) 



Pods 2-8 seeded, necklace-form, slender-beaked ; leaves lyre- 

 shaped, rough ; petals yellow, turning 

 whitish or purplish, veiny. — A trouble- 

 some weed in flelds, Nfd. to Ont. and 

 Pa. (Nat. from Eu.) Fig. 753. 



2. R. SATivus L. (Radish.) Pet- 

 als pale purple ; pods thick, scarcely 

 moniliform, 2-3-seeded, with conical 

 beak. — Persistent about old fields, 

 Eaphanlstrum. frequent. (Introd. from Eu.) Fig. 

 %. BudxlVa. 754. 



754. E. BattvuB. 

 Bud X 12/3. Pod X Vs. 



15. BRASSICA [Tourn.] L. Mustakd. Turnip 



Pod slender or thickish, nearly terete or 4-sided, with a stout often 1-seeded 

 beak ; valves 1-5-nerved. Seeds globose, 1-rowed. Cotyledons conduplicate 



