No. 14.] FLOWERING PLANTS AND FERNS. 20I 



Lepidium sativum L. (sown). 



Garden Cress. Garden or Golden Peppergrass. Poor Man's 



Pepper. 



Rare. Southington, about an old garden (Andrews) ; 

 Salisbury, in a poultry yard and probably introduced with 

 grain (A. V. Osmun). June — July. Fugitive from Europe. 



Sometimes cultivated as a salad plant. 



Lepidium campestre (L.) R. Br. (of fields). 



Field, Bastard or Cow Cress. Mithridate Mustard. Poor 

 Man's Pepper. 



Rare or occasional. Cultivated fields, sandy roadsides 

 and waste places. June. Adventive from Europe. 



IBERIS L. 



Iberis amara L. (bitter). 



Candytuft. Bitter or Annual Candytuft. Clown's Mustard. 



Rare. Escaped from cultivation to waste places: South- 

 ington (Andrews), Bridgeport (Fames). July — Aug. 

 Fugitive from Europe. 



CAPSELLA Medic. Shepherd's Purse. 



Capsella Bursa-pastoris (L.) Medic, (shepherd's pouch). 

 Bursa Bursa-pastoris Britton. 

 Shepherd's Purse or Sprouts. Mother's Heart. Witches' 



Pouches. 



Common. Cultivated ground, fields, roadsides and waste 

 places. April — Oct. Naturalized from Europe. 



Valued as a pot-herb because of its earliness. A bad weed 

 in cultivated ground. Medicinal. 



CAMELINA Crantz. False Flax. 



Camelina sativa (L.) Crantz (sown). 



False or Dutch Flax. Gold-of-Pleasure. Cheat. Myagrum. 



Rare. Oxford, in grain fields (Harger). June — July. 

 Fugitive from Europe. 



This, like the following species, was formerly frequent 

 among flax, of which it was believed to be a transmuted or 

 degenerate form. 



