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ALASSIO AND ITS FLORA 
by the sepals, also four in number, the two 
opposite ones being smaller than the two 
others. 
Siliqua indehiscent, of two joints, the 
upper quadrangular, the lower with two 
lateral excrescences giving the fruit nearly 
the appearance of a halbert two or more 
centimetres long. The peduncle, if pulled 
off, takes with it part of the bark and of 
the stem. 
Seeds, one in each cell, shaped like a 
cone, with one edge more convex; the 
lower seed suspended from its upper tip, 
the seed in the upper cell attached by its 
lower tip to the partition between the 
two cells so as to be opposite in their 
insertion. 
It flowers nearly all the year but more 
especially in autumn till the middle of 
winter and in spring. 
Very abundant in all the gulf along 
the shore. 
Properties. — Antiscorbutic, stimula- 
ting, like many of the cruciferae; it is 
not used in medicine. 
