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bU the leaves lanceolate." Roit annual. Sf:m near a foot 

 high, fomeiviiat branching, rough with miiuite prickles. 

 I.aiutr haves invrrfcly lanceolate, upper ones lanceolate, 

 » httls toothed; with a few while, forked and trifid hairs. 

 F/o'.Lrrt ycUow, in raccircs. Calyx fomewhat ventritofe, 

 convtrging. SiHcks vcit fhort, muricate, crelled wuh tour 

 oppofite Icrnted :uig'.ts; and tenninattd by a pyramidal, 

 capitate ftyle,' the L-"r.;^ah of the filicle. Retz. Obs. 3 p. 

 31. Native cotintrv unknown. 5. B. oricntalis, Linn. 

 (Crambc orientalis, Tourn. Myagrum orient. La Marck,) 

 GxTt. Tab. 142. " Siliclcs ovate, gibbus, warty; lower 

 leaves runcinat'e-lyreniapcd, upper ones hinceoUtc," WiiiJ. 

 Root perennial. Sirms herbaceous, upwards of tw^o feet 

 high, branched. Floivcrs yellow, in long, terminating 

 racemes. Silicle drupaceo'is, roimdifh or ovate oblong, gib- 

 bous, warty, ending in a fhort ll\!e. Rir.d iungom, ftrav.'- 

 coloured. Shill bony, of the (hape of the filicle, fmooth 

 without ; with two cells ont above the other, the upper one, 

 in fuch filicles as are rouiKlifli, gentrraily obliterated. Setrh 

 roundilTi, rufefcent. Miller and Ga;rtner. Gathered by 

 Tourne.fbrt in the Levant, and by Gmelin in Siberia. 6. 

 B. cochlearkide^ , Wi'ld. " Silicl'es ovate, bluntifh, fome- 

 what wrinkled ; radical leaves oblong, ftem-lcaves arrow- 

 (haped, embracing the ftem." Root annual ; 3 native of 

 Trance, Italy, Hungary, &c. 7. B. talarkn, WiUd. (Vella 

 tenuilTima, Pallas It. torn. 5. PI. 6. French Tiai flation.) 

 " Silicles globular, fomcwhiit hexagonal, with long beaks ; 

 leaves lanceolate, blunt, petiolcd." Root annual. Stem 

 ereft, branching, half a foot high. Lcitvcs very entire ; 

 hifpid, attenuated into a petiole at the bafe. Flowers 

 white, in filiform racemes. Silicles fix-furrowed, crowned 

 with the thick, cylindrical, permanent ilyle, two-celled, 

 not opening. 8. B. Myagroides, Linn. Mant. 96. (Cakile 

 inyagroides. Vent.) La Marck Ulufl;. Tab. 554- _/5"^. I.? 

 " Silicles two-edged, two-jointed, a little fwelling above ; 

 leaves pinnate, with refieiled finufcs." R/iOt annual. Stem 

 ftraight, two feet high, even, irregularly branched. Lower 

 leaves pinnate or bipiiniate, rather broad, not fl>;(hy, deep 

 green, with oblong, toothed divifions or pirfnas ; the upper 

 ones very fimilar, but narrow and linear ; all with reflected 

 finufes. Rjcemes terminal, long, ftraight. Flowers nearly 

 felBle. Calyx oblong, clofed. Petals very entire, pale, 

 purple. Anthers yellow. Style fword-fhaped. Silicle fub- 

 cylindrical, rigid, approximating to the rachis ; on a fliort 

 peduncle ; lower joint cylindrical, two-valved, generally 

 with only one feed, th; valves marked with a fingle ftreak ; 

 upper joint, con^preffcd, obfcurely two-edged, generally 

 with only one feed, blunt, with a protuberant auricle on 

 each fide. Linn. A native of Siberia, g. B. tegyptiaca, 

 Linn. Syft. Nat. tom. 3. p. 231. (Myagrum verrucofum, 

 La Marck) Girt. Tab. 142. copied by La Marck in Illuft. 

 ■PI. 553. fig. 3. " Silicles four-angled, rugged with warts 

 on all fidcs ; leaves runcinate." Root annual. Stem a foot 

 high, branched, hifpid below, fmoother above. Leaves 

 runcinate, fomewhat toothed, even ; with a few hairs 

 beneath on the petioles. Racemes folitary, terminal, 

 long. Flowers pedicelled. Calyx yellowifh, fpreading. 

 Petals dark yellow, obovatc, obtufe, fpreading, with ereft 

 claws. Stamens yellow, dillant. Germ, ovate, four angled, 

 green. Style none : Jligma capitate, yellow. Silicle drupa- 

 ceous, fmall, ovate, four angled : the two narrower fides 

 rugged with warts ; the two broader marked with a double, 

 longitudinal, elevated ftreak, which is crenulate, or (lightly 

 tubercied : rind very thin, membranaceous : ftiell bony, 

 muricate, two celled ; cells placed fide by fide. Seeds foli- 

 tar)', ovate, convex on one fide, flat on the other, rufefcent. 

 Linn, and Csrt. A native of Egypt. 10. B. hakarica. 



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Lmn. Mant 429 (Myagrum b:'l. La l.Iarck) Jacq. hort. 

 Tab. 144. Govan ilh'ft. tab. 20. " Silicles hilpid ; leaves 

 pinnate ; folioles fomewhat tootlied." Root annual. Stem 

 a f. ot high, much branching, fpreadinjr, angular, fmooth, 

 i-frtiw petioled ; pinnte lanceolate, finuate, obtufe, fmooth. 

 Peduncles in racemes, very long, ereft : pedicels fhorter 

 than tiie flowers. Calyx clofed, fmooth, lanceolate, con- 

 cave, teftaceous. Corolla yellow ; petals oblong, obtufe, 

 the length of the calyx. Silicles globular, echinated on 

 every fide with dcnfe, weak fpines, and terminated by an 

 awl-fliaped, ftilfbeak, longer than the filicle. A native of 

 Major.:a and Minorca. Ji. B. pro/lrata. Wild. Desf. All. 

 tab. ijO. " Silicles one-feeded, toothed :* leaves pinnati- 

 fid ; fcgments linuatc." Stems numerous, proftrate, pu- 

 befcent from the root. Leaves pubefcert, deeply pinna- 

 tifid ; fegments obtufe, toothed. Flowers white. Silicles 

 roundifh, compreffed, terminated by tlie permanent flylc, 

 pubefcent. A native of the far.dy foil in the 'northern part of 

 Africa. 12 B. Caiile Linn. HuJfon, Vv'ithering, Smith. 

 (Cakile maritima Tourn. La Marck, Vent. Willd. C;-.ki!e 

 Serapiiinis Lob. Gaert.) Eng. Bot. PI. 2j i. La Marck Il- 

 luft. PI. 554, fig. 2. Gffirt. Tab. 141. " Silicles ovate, 

 two-edged, fmooth, onc-feeded ; leaves flefhy." Smith. 

 Root annual, flender, v/oody, running deep into the fand. 

 Stem round, much branched, woody, divided from the bafe 

 int.- widely divaricated, zig-zag, twifted branches. Leeroes 

 alternate, thick and fuccnient, rather glaucous, fmooth, 

 more or lefs deeply pinnatifid and toothed ; their fegments 

 all obtufe. Flowers pale purple in denfe, terminal corymbi, 

 which afterwards grow out into ipikes. Calyx gibbous at 

 the bafe. Silicle fmooth, oblong, acuminate, obfoleteiy 

 four-angled, but fo comprefTcd as to make two oppofite 

 edges very prominent, two jointed, feparating at thejoints: 

 the upper joint largeft, deeply emarginate at the bafe, 

 fpnngy, conftantly fertile, o-.e celled, not opening fpon- 

 taneoiifly, but eafily feparated.into two valves at the promi- 

 nent angles : the lower joint fmaller, fomewhat top-lTiaped, 

 fometimes perfeftly folid, and fometimes furnifhed with a 

 cell, which is either barren or contains a fingle feed ; but a 

 fertile lower joint is very rare, and never occurred to the 

 obfervation of Gsrtner. Miller, Gasrt. and Smith. An 

 inhabitant of the fea-coafts of Europe, Afia, Africa, and 

 America. Willdenow defcribcs the variety /3 of Vahl, 

 which he conjeftures to be Ifatis Egyptiaca of Linnaeus, as 

 a fecond fpecies of his genus Cakiie, under the trivial name 

 of Egypfaca. It. d:ifers chiefly in having larger leaves, 

 longer peJunclef, and a feed always in each cell ; but it 

 feenis t ) be only a variety of the common fpecies. 



Obf. This genus, like feveral others of the fame natural 

 family, is very perplexed and obfcure, and differently treated 

 by different authors. Linna:us, at firft, formed it of fuch 

 fpecies as have rough or mnricated filiques or filicles, in- 

 cluding the Erucago of Tournefort, and framed its generic 

 character accordingly : but afterwards, without changino- 

 the character, admitted the Cakile of Tournefort, which 

 has not rough or muricated filicles, and which in his Hortus 

 ChfTortianus and Flora Suecica, he had placed under Ra- 

 phanus. La Marck has aboliflied it entirely, keeping Ca- 

 kile diftinft, and placing the other fpecies under Myagrum, 

 which, he fays, forms with them a very natural genus, con- 

 fifting of fpecies with filicles, in fome refpctts fo different 

 from each other, thai, if not united under one very general 

 charafter, they muft conftitnte neariy as many genera as 

 fpecies. Juffieu, inftead of uniting it with Myagrum, is 

 rather inclined to divide it into three, Bunias, Erucago, 

 Cakile. Gasrtner makes its cffential charafter depend on 

 a drupaceous filicle, adding that thofe who are delighted 



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