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Cakile maritima (Scopoli). 
(Nat. Ord. Cruciferae) 
BuNiAS CAKILE, Liunaeus; Crambe mari- 
tima, Allioni\ Cakile litoralis, Jordan, 
Arduini, 
A flexuons plant which grows in thick 
clumps, the lower part lying on the sand, 
about 3 or 4 decimetres high and 5 or 
more wide. The young twigs are herba- 
ceous, upright, fleshy, sometimes with thin 
raised longitudinal lines; the old branches 
are of a parched yellow colour spotted with 
black, and the medullary cavity filled with 
a blackish substance. 
Fleshy leaves, 3 to 6 centim. long, alter- 
nate, deeply-lobed, split in unequal linear 
segments which are distant, for the most 
part nearly opposite, and with secondary 
notches. Oblong and linear leaves are rare. 
The petiole is long, fleshy, rounded, and 
grooved on the upper part. 
Flowers in corymb, pale lilac; six sta- 
mens, two of which are shorter ; stigma 
entire, without style. Four petals nearly 
round with long whitish petiole surrounded 
