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5. CRUCIFERJE. 
Desf. ii. 77. Kakile Serapionis Brot. i. 561. Bunias Cakile L. 
EB. t. 231. — Herb. aim. PS. reg. 1 ; cc. Sandy beacb in front 
of the town abundantly. Apr. -June. Pi. altogether smooth 
and fleshy, 6-12 in. high or more, with numerous flexuose 
spreading hard stiff' branches forming a close often pyramidal 
bush. Foliage light gr. not glaucous. FI. handsome pale lilac 
rather large in rac. opposite the 1. or terminal. Pods an in. long, 
hard and woody, sharply quadrangular, beak compressed. 
Tribe X. Raphanece. 
21. Rapistrttm Boerh. 
1. R. rugosum (L.) Berg. Rinehao. 
Root annual ; branches widely and stiffly patent or divaricate ; 
1. toothed, the lower oblong obtuse lyrate or lyrate-pinnatifid, 
sometimes undivided and merely sinuate, the upper 1. acute ; 
pouches pubescent hispid or smooth many-ribbed, upper joint 
ovate then globose strongly granulato-costate or rugose, equal 
to or shorter than the elongated conico-subulate style, lower 
joint clavate. — WB. ! i. 86; Koch 83.— Var. 
a. eriocarpum Webb 1. c. ; pouches hispid-pubescent, lower 1. 
lyrate obtuse. — R. rugosum DC. ! Syst. ii. 432 ; Prod. i. 227 ; 
Presl 107 ; RFG. ii. t. 2. f. 4168. Varr. silic. hirsutis (R. hir- 
sutum Host) and silic. scabris (R. scabrum Host) Koch 1. c. 
Myagrum rugosum L. ! M. perenne Buch ! 195. no. 304. Ma- 
deira, Fr. Masson, 1777, in BII. ! (not Linn.) Cakile rugosa 
Spr. Syst. ii. 852. — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1 ; cc. PS. reg. 2 ; a. 
GD., reg. 2 ; c. Waste sunny places and cornfields chiefly near 
the sea. Abundant to the westward of Funchal about the Gor- 
gulho, Praya Formosa, &c. Ponta S. Louren^o about the fossil 
bed, &c. Less common in Porto Santo than var. /3. March- 
May. — Root subfusiform strong tough and woody, perennial- 
looking, but always decidedly annual only. PI. 1-2 ft. high 
with remote straggling divaricate very tough and stiff’ or rigid 
branches, and small scanty foliage. L. not above 2 or 3 in. 
long and 1 broad, principally radical in a flat rose, with the st. 
more or less hispid, the latter retrallv strigose. Rac. in fruit 
much elongated and divaricated or declining. FI. rather smaller 
than in Smapis arvensis L., bright y. Sep. smooth. Pedic. 
very short erect closely adpressed in fr. Pouches when yoimg 
densely hispid ; in all stages and even when ripe more or less 
pubescent all over, corky, coarsely ribbed and rugose longi- 
tudinally, 3-6 lines long, the lower joint rnrely seedless not 
longer than the pedic., as long ns the upper globose joint which 
is strongly ribbed longitudinally and tipped by the slender 
conic-subulate stylo which is as long as or longer than tho 
