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thahana. 
jyrata. 
faleata. 
TETRADYNAMIA, SILIQUOSA. 
Officinale Hedge-mustard. 
A straggling plant, with very small yellow flowers, and a 
hot pungent taste. About a foot or two feet high. On the 
borders of fields and along tences, every where common. 
Annual. July. 
303. ARABIS. Gen. pl. 1049. (Crucifere.) 
Silique linear (mostly compressed) crowned 
with the subsessile stigma; valves venose 
or nerved. Seeds disposed in a single se- 
ries. Cotyledones accumbent. Calix erect. 
—k. Brown. Hort. Kew. 4. p. 104. 
1. A. radical leaves oblong, petiolate ; stem leaves 
lanceolate, sessile; stem erect, hairy at the 
base; petals twice the length of the calix.— 
Willd. 
(con. Curt. Fl. Lond. 2. t. 49. 
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Mouse-ear Wall-cress or Turkey-pod. 
From six to ten inches high. Flowers small, white. In sandy 
fields, woods and road-sides, every where common. Annual. 
April till July. 
2. A. leaves glabrous, radical ones lyrate, those 
of the stem tinear.—iild. 
Lyre-leaved Wall-cress. 
About the size of the preceding, but has much larger flow- 
ers—also white On all the high rocks of the neighbourhood, 
at the roots of trees in the woods of Jersey, and in fields and 
dry road-sides, every where abundant. It flowers often when 
snow is on the ground in March, and continues in bloom till 
July. Annual. 
3. A. leaves lanceolate, narrow at each end, re- 
motely dentate, hastate-sessile ; siliques pendu- 
lous, two-edged, scythe-shaped.-—-Mich. 
A. Canadensis, Mich. 
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