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THE CRUCIFER FAMILY. 



Flowers small, pale yellow. Pods nume- 

 rous, on spreading pedicels, seldom an 

 inch long, the stigma slightly dilated. 



In waste and cultivated places, in 

 northern and central Europe, Russian 

 Asia, and northern America, becoming 

 rather a mountain plant in southern 

 Europe. Diffused over a great part of 

 Britain, but probably in many cases in- 

 troduced. FL summer and autumn. 



Fig. 72. 



2. 



Eastern Erysimum. Erysimum orientale, Br. (Fig. 73.) 

 {Brassica, Eng. Bot. t. 1804. Hares-ear.) 



An erect, perfectly glabrous, and 

 somewhat glaucous annual, a foot high 

 or rather more. Radical leaves obovate 

 and stalked, the stem-leaves oblong, 2 

 or 3 inches long, quite entire, and em- 

 bracing the stem with prominent rounded 

 auricles. Flowers pale yellow, or whit- 

 ish. Pods 3 or 4 inches long, slender, 

 in a loose raceme, the midrib of the 

 valves very prominent. 



In stony fields and waste places, in 

 central and southern Europe, and west- 

 ern Asia, extending northwards to the 

 Baltic. In Britain it has been gathered 

 occasionally, near the southern and east- 

 ern coasts of England, but appears 

 scarcely to be permanently established. 

 Fl. spring and summer. 

 Fig. 73. 



