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linear. — E. B. 855. R. ii. 50. — Pods patent. \ery variable. 
When growing out of water it is slender with small leaves and is 
N. microphyllum (R.) ; when remarkably luxuriant, many feet in 
length, the stem often nearly an inch thick and the leaves very 
large and resembling those of a Stum, it is N. siifoUutn (R.). — 
Running watei'. P. VI. VII. Water- Cress. E.S.I. 
2. N. sylces 'tre (R. Br.) ; root creeping, 1. deeply pinnatifid, Its. 
oblong or lanceolate cut, uppermost 1. often nearly entire, pet. 
twice as long as the calyx {yellow), pods linear. — JH. B. 2324. — 
Fr.-stalks patent ; pods patent or ascending, variable in length 
usuallv as long as their stalks sometimes shorter. — River banks 
and wet places. P. VI.— \m E.S.I. 
3. N. palus'tre (DC); root Jibroits, lower 1. lyrate, upper 1. 
deeply pinnatifid. Its. oblong toothed, pet. not longer than the 
calyx, pods oblong thick. — N. terrestre Sm., JE. B. 1747. — Fl. 
small. Fr.-stalks patent or even deflexed ; pods ascending, 
short about as long as their stalks. — Wet places. P. VI. — IX. 
E. S. I. 
4. B.vebaee'a E. Br. Rocket. 
1. B. vulgaris (R. Br.) ; lower I. lyrate, upper pair of lobes 
equalling tJie breadth of the large roundish subcordate terminal 
lobe, uppermost 1. undivided toothed, pods adpressed obliquely 
erect or patent vrith a subulate point. — E. B. 443. R. ii. 47. — 
Pet. twice as long as the calyx. Flowering raceme lax. Pods 
short. — In damp places. B. 't V. — \HI. Yellow Rocket. E. S. I. 
2. B. stric'ta (Fries) ; lower I. lyrate, upper pair of lobes small 
much shorter than the breadth of the large oblong-ovate terminal 
lobe, uppermost 1. undivided toothed, pods adpressed with a 
subulate point. — R. ii. 47. B. parrijlora Fries. — Pet. half as long 
again as the calyx. Flowering raceme close. Fl. much smaller 
than in B. vulgaris. Pods short. Lateral lobes of the lower- 
most 1. very small, often obsolete. — Between Sheffield and 
Halifax and between Weedon and BHsworth, plentifully. Mr. 
Borrer. York. B. ? V.— Vm. E. 
t3. B. intermedia (Bor.) ; lower 1. lyrate, upper pair'of lobes 
equalling the breadth of the cordate-ovate term, lobe, upi^er I. 
all pinnatifid, pods erectwiih a short thick conical point. — St. with 
3 angles, 1^ — 2 ft. high. Raceme close. Pet. exceeding calvx. 
Pods thick, short, angular. — Near Manchester and Armagh. 
_B. v.— ^TII. E. I. 
J4 B. pra'cox (R. Br.) ; lower 1. Ivrate gradually larger up- 
wards, upper pair equalling the breadth of the subcordate single 
terminal lobe, uppermost I. pinnatifid with linear-oblong entire 
lobes, pods patent with a short thick point. — E, B. 1129. B.patula 
