CUJJCIYEllJE. 



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Dear the sea, nearly all over Europe 

 and Eussian Asia, except the extreme 

 north, abundant also in extratropical 

 Australia. In Britain, along the coast 

 of England, from Bristol round to Nor- 

 folk, but scarcely wild inland. Fl. early 

 summer, and often on till autumn. 



Fig, 105. 



XXIY. SENEBIEEA. SENEBIEEA. 



Prostrate annuals, with pinnate leaves, and short racemes of small 

 white flowers opposite the leaves. Petals and stamens as in Cress. Pod 

 laterally compressed (at right angles to the narrow partition), orbicular 

 or broader than long, either indehiscent or separating into two nuts, 

 each with a single seed. Eadicle incumbent on the back of the coty- 

 ledons, but the bend is, as in Awlwort, a little above the base of the 

 cotyledons themselves, not at their junction with the radicle. 



A genus of very few species, but widely diffused over the whole range 

 of the Order. 



Pods 2 lines broad, deeply wrinkled, sessile or nearly so . . . 1. Common S. 

 Pods 1 line broad, slightly wrinkled, on slender pedicels . . 2. Lesser S. 



1. Common Senebiera. Senebiera Coronopus, Poir. 

 (Eig. 106.) 



( Coronopus Ruellii, Eng. Bot. t. 1660. Swine s-cress. Wartcress.) 



A pale green, glabrous or glaucous annual, the stems, when first 

 flowering forming a short, close tuft, afterwards spreading along the 

 ground to the length of 6 inches or more. Leaves once or twice pin- 

 nately divided, the segments not numerous, linear or wedge-shaped, 

 entire or toothed. Eacemes at first forming close sessile heads, but, 

 as the fruit ripens, lengthening out to 1 or 2 inches. Pedicels seldom 

 a line long. Pod about 2 lines broad and not quite so long, scarcely 



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