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5. CEUCIFEK^. 
But the slender decidedly branched stems, and laxer not ces- 
pitose habit, not to speak of the peculiar locality, forbid their 
reference to any state of the common Madeiran T. nudicaulis L. 
which is never found below 2000 ft. 
Tribe VI. Lepidinea. 
16. Lepidium L. 
1. L. VERGINICUM L. 
L. all undivided sharply inciso-serrate smooth, root-1, oblong- 
spathulate, st.-l. lanceolate, the uppermost linear-lanceolate ; 
stamens 2-4, style very short ; pouches orbicular notched keeled 
winged upwards spreading about the length of their pedicels. — 
DC.' Syst. ii. 538; Prod. i. 205; Buch 106. no. 306. (L. Iberis 
Schk. not Linn.) DC. Cynocardamiwi virginicum WB. i. 97. 
— Herb. ann. (occasionally bien.) Mad. reg. 1, 2 ; ccc. Road- 
sides, sunny waste ground and dry beds of ravines, a imiversal 
weed ; throughout the year. St. stiffly erect and straight about 
a ft. high often woody and suffrutescent at the base ; branches 
slender stiff and rigid somewhat tough w'oody downwards mi- 
nutely puberulous substriate. L. about an inch long narrow, 
the root-1, broader soon disappearing. FI. very small and in- 
conspicuous white ; pet. often not unfolding spathulate obtuse. 
Seeds light tawny yellow compressed partly pellucid-bordered 
reticulato-punctate. Cotyledons accumbent. 
No dependence can be placed upon the cot. in this pi. which 
vary from accumbent to incumbent. DC. in his Systema, ori- 
ginally described them as incumbent. Webb finding them ac- 
cumbent in his Canarian, Madeiran, N. American, and Porto 
Rican (Wydler’s) specimens, was led to form his genus Cynocar- 
damum : stating however the cot. to be “all incumbent in a 
most closely allied if not altogether identical” Mexican sp. from 
Berlandier. 
tt|2. L. SATIVUM L. Cress. 
Lower 1. stalked variously cut and lobed pinnate or bipinnate, 
upper 1. sessile linear undivided ; pouches orbicular or oval 
winged obtuse notched close-pressed to the st. — Brot. i. 567 ; 
DC. i. 204 (var. a) ; Koch 77 (var. a) ; Bab. 32. Lqyia sativa 
(Desv.) Presl 83. — Ilerb. ann. Mad. reg. 1,2; rr. Occasionally 
in the neighbourhood of Funchal in waste ground amongst 
vineyards &c. ; a mere outcast from gardens. March, April. — 
PI. 1-2 ft. high much branched and leafy smooth more or less 
glaucous. L. deeply and much divided with narrow linear 
