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lobes; sometimes entire. FI. small white very numerous in 
long erect racemes. Style scarcely any. Cot. often tripartite. 
Cultivated for early salads with Sinapis alba L. frequently in 
Europe. 
17. Capsella Med. 
1. C. Bubsa-PASTOUIS (L.) Moench. Shepherd’s Purse. 
Pubescent; root-1, lanceolate runcinate-pinnatifid or undi- 
vided, those of the st. sessile sagittate and toothed, the upper- 
most undivided ; pouch triansrular-obcordate. — EB. t. 1485 ; 
DC. i. 177 ; Presl 86 ; WB. i. 98 ; Koch 79 ; Bab. 33. Tldaspt 
Bursa-pastoris Desf. ii. 68 ; Brot. i. 568 ; Sm. E. FI. iii. 173. 
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y. pinnatiflda Koch 1. c. ; fl. regular, root-1, pinnatifid. Herb, 
ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2, c. ; PS. reg. 2, r. Iloadsides about Funchal, 
Dec.-Apr. and PS. at Camacha, Apr. Very variable in foliage ; 
st. erect branched 6-12 in. high. Root-leaves in a flat rose-like 
tuft either undivided and lanceolate (var. y. DC. ; a. Koch), 
sinuate-toothed (var. /3. Koch) or, as in Madeira and Porto 
Santo, pinnatifid (var. y. Koch) : but these three forms seem 
scarcely worth distinguishing. Pouches smooth on erecto- 
patent or spreading stalks of about their own length in long 
branched racemes, each 3 lines long and 2 broad at top, their 
cells each with from 10 to 14 seeds. 
Tribe VII. Senebierece. 
18. Sexebiera Pers. 
1. S. CORONOPUS (L.) Poir. Swine’s Cress. 
Smooth ; l. fleshy unequally and coarsely pinnatilobate , lobes 
entire or incised on their fore-edge ; pedic. shorter than the fl. ; 
pouch altogether closed not bursting, undivided reniform compressed 
crested and toothed at the back tipped with the pyramidal pro- 
minent style. — DC. i. 203 ; Sm. E. Fl. iii. 179 ; Presl 81 ; Koch 
80 ; Bab. 33. Coronopus Ruellii Brot. i. 565 ; EB. t. 1660 ; 
WB. i. 96. Cochlearia Coronopus L. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 
1 ; Streets and roads about Funchal, Jan.-Apr. — St. short 
branched prostrate and with the 1. hung flat to the ground. L. 
light or dark full not at all glaucous gr. Fl. small white in 
short close lateral corymbs. Pouches in dense clusters large in 
proportion and of singular appearance, not bursting or splitting 
asunder, of a somewhat corky or leathery substance, not di- 
stinctly 2-lobed. PL when bruised fetid. 
2. S. didyma (L.) Pers. 
St. hairy ; l. regularly and elegantly pinnatilobate flattened, 
lobes oblong toothed or cut at their fore-edge ; pedic. longer than 
