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THE CRUCIFER FAMILY. 



1. Sea Cakile. Cakile maritima, Scop. (Fig. 109.) 

 (Bunias Cakile, Eng. Bot. t. 231. Sea Rocket.) 



Stems hard at the base, with loose 

 straggling branches a foot long or more, 

 and glabrous. Leaves few, thick and 

 fleshy, with a few distant, oblong or linear 

 lobes. Flowers not unlike those of a 

 Stock, but smaller. Pods on short thick 

 pedicels, distant from each other in long 

 racemes ; when young, linear or lanceo- 

 late and entire, but when ripe, forming 

 the two peculiar articles above described. 

 [Radicle remarkably large. 



In maritime sands and salt-marshes ; 

 on all the seacoasts of Europe and western 

 Asia, except the extreme north. Com- 

 mon all round Britain. Ft. summer and 

 autumn. 



Fig. 109. 



XXVII. CEAMBE. CRAMBE. 



Erect, stout perennials, or in some foreign species, annuals, with 

 toothed or divided leaves, and loose panicles of white flowers. Pod 

 apparently stalked in the calyx (that is, supported on a stalk -like 

 abortive lower article), globular, indehiscent, with one seed. Radicle 

 incumbent on the back of the cotyledons, which are folded over as in 

 Brassica. 



A well-characterized and natural genus, containing several south 

 European, west Asiatic, and Canary Island species. 



1. Seakale Crambe. Crambe maritima, Linn. (Fig. 110.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 924. Seakale.) 



A glabrous plant, of a glaucous green, forming a thick, hard, 

 perennial stock. Stems branched, about 2 feet high. Lower leaves 

 stalked, large, rather thick, broadly oblong or rounded, waved and 

 coarsely toothed or pinnatifid ; the upper leaves few and smaller. 

 Panicle large and much branched. Filaments of the longer stamens 



