CAPPARIDACEiE. 3£ 



1. B. campbstris. Cale. 



Leaves somewhat fleshy and glaucous ; the upper one cordate-amplexicaul, actF 

 minatc. Stem \]/ 2 to 3 feet high, round, smooth above, with a few scattered reversed 

 hairs below. Racemes 1 to 2 feet long. Corolla yellow, nearly 3^ inch in diameWi. 



b. Rutabaga. Swedish Turnip. 



Boot tumid, napiform, sub-globose, yellowish; growing to an enormous &im. 

 Cultivated for cattle. Native of Sweden. 



Order 13. CAPPAREDACEJE. 



Herbaceous plants or shrubs, without a true stipule, but sometimes with spines tot 

 their place. Leaves alternate, petioled, undivided or palmate. Flowers cruciform, 

 solitary or racemose. Sepals 4. Petals 4, or even 8, imbricated or none, cruciate, 

 usually unguiculate and unequal. Stamens 6 to 12, or some multiple of 4. Disk 

 hemispherical or elongated. Ovary stipitate, of 2 united carpels. Styles united 

 into one. Stigma discoid. Fruit either pod-shaped and dehiscent, or fleshy and 

 indehiscent. Seeds many, kidney-shaped, without albumen. 



1. GYNANDROPSIS. DC. 



Or. Gynandria, a Linnean class ; opsis, appearance. 



Calyx of 4 sepals, spreading. Petals 4, unequal 

 Stamens 6 ; filaments adnate below to the linear, elongated 

 torus, its whole length. Pod linear-oblong, raised on a long 

 stipe which rises from the top of the torus. — Leaves digitate. 

 Floirers racemed. 



Gr. pentaphylla, DC Five-leaved Gynandropsis. 



Middle leaves petiolate, 5-foliate ; floral and lower ones 3-foliate ; leaflets obovate, 

 entire or denticulate. 



Cultivated grounds. July. Annual. Stem 2 feet high, viscid, simple. Flowers 

 of a very irregular structure, white in long terminal racemes. Petals obovato with 

 very long capillary claws. Pod 2 inches long, linear, on a long foot-stalk. 



2. POLANISIA. Raf. 



Qr.polus, many or much, and anisos, unequal. 



Sepals 4, distinct, spreading. Petals 4, unequal, with 

 claws. Stamens 8 to 32, unequal. Receptacle not elon- 

 gated. Pod stalkless or nearly so, above the stamens, linear 

 or oblong, veiny, turgid, many-seeded. — Strong scented an- 

 nuals with glandular or clammy hairs, and digitate leaves. 



P. GRaveolens, Raf. Strong scented Polanisia. 



Viscid, pubescent; leaves ternate; leaflets elliptic-oblong; flowers axillaiy, 

 solitary ; stamens 8 to 12 ; capsule oblong lanceolate, alternate at the base. 



Gravelly banks of streams. June — Aug. Stem 1 foot high, branching, ptrfat*. 

 Flowers in a corymbose raceme, yellowish-white and purple. Whole plant m©r« or 

 l«es viscid and fetid. 



