HESPERIS,—SISYMBRIUM. 23 
Tribe IT. Sisymbriee. 
9. Hesreris Linn. Dame’s Violet. 
tl. H. matronalis (L.); st. erect branched above, |. ovate- 
lanceolate acuminate toothed, pedicels about as long as the calyx, 
pet. obovate obtuse with an apiculus, pods erect from a patent 
- pedicel terete torulose.—E. B. 731.—F'. lilac, “fragrant,” large 
and handsome. H. inodora does not differ from the cultivated 
plant more than would be caused by situation.—Hilly pastures, 
very rare. B. V. VI. 
Malcolmia maritima (R. Br.) has been found in Kent but is 
not a native. | 
10. Sisymprium Linn. 
1. S. officinale (Scop.); pods subulate adpressed to the stem, 
1. runcinate-pinnatifid with 2 or 3 pairs of oblong dentate lobes 
and a large hastate terminal lobe.—#. B. 735. R. ii. 72.—St. 
1—2 feet high with divaricated branches, upper part leafless. Fl. 
small, pale yellow. Pods on very short stalks, pubescent some- 
times glabrous.—Common. A. VI. VIT. Hedge Mustard. 
[*2. S. polyceratium (L.); pods subulate spreading sessile 
axillary about 3 together, |. lanceolate repand-dentate or sub- 
hastate.— R. ii. 73.—St. leafy throughout, branched, “ prostrate.” 
FL. small.—In the outskirts of Bury St.-Edmonds but certainly 
an escape from cultivation. A. VII. VIII.] E. 
3. S. Irio (L.); pods terete 4 times as long as their pedicels 
erect-patent, the young pods exceeding the fl., seeds oblong, 1. 
runcinate-pinnatifid, lobes dentate oblong the terminal lobe an- 
gular, lobes of the upper 1. lanceolate with the terminal hastate. 
—E. B. 1631. R. ii. 75.—Erect, branched, st. and 1. glabrous. 
Fl. yellow. Pods narrow, linear. Pedicels slender.—Near old 
towns, rare. A. VII. VIII. London Rocket. 
4. S. Sophia (L.); pods terete 3 times as long as their pedicels 
erect-patent, seeds oblong, J. doubly or trebly pinnate, segments 
linear or linear-lanceolate.—E. B. 963. R. u. 74.—St. erect, 
branched, and as well as the 1. slightly downy. Fl. yellow. Pet. 
short. Pods linear, narrow. Pedicels slender.— Waste places, 
not common. A. VI—VIII. Fliaweed. 
5. S. thalianum (Gaud.); pods 4-angular lmear ascending 
twice as long as their patent edicels, seeds oblong not striated, 
1. oblong-lanceolate undivided toothed.—Arabis Sm., E. B. 901. 
Conringia R. ii. 60.—St. erect, slender, much branched, with few 
leaves which are nearly all radical. Fl. small, white. Pods an- 
gular on the back of the valves (tetragonous), not convex as in 
