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with dark violet-purple. Pods loosely erecto-patent slender 
about 2 in. long (in /3. thicker and shorter) with a short seedless 
2-edged beak in. long, subquadrangular subtorulose and stri- 
ated. Seeds oblong subangular light brown finely reticulato- 
punctate, imbedded in the pithy or spongy dissepiment. 
11. Eruca DC. 
1. E. sativa Lam. Fedor ente. 
St. and branches hirsute ; 1. lyrate pinnatipartite, their lobes 
toothed and all acute ; pedic. shorter than the deciduous sepals. 
— DC. i. 223 ; Presl 104 ; WB. i. 79 ; Koch 62. Brassica 
Eruca (L.) Desf. ii. 95 ; Brot. i. 581 ; Spr. Syst. ii. 912. * 
y. DC., Presl 1. c. ; fl. pale ochre veined with black or dusky ; 
pods smooth. — Herb. ann. PS. reg. 1, 2 ; ccc. Sandy beach, 
barren sunny slopes, borders of fields and roadsides, everywhere 
near the sea in Porto Santo and the Ilheo de Baxo. — A low 
spreading bushy pi. about a foot high with remarkably hard 
and tough stiffly divaricated straggling branches and dull greyish 
dark gr. more or less smooth foliage : when bruised or brushed 
emitting a strong rank foxy smell. Fl. like those of Baphanus 
Baphanistrum L., rather large ochroleucous with blackish 
purple or violaceous veins. Sep. erect rather long. Pedic. 
very short. Pods with their beak from £ to f in. long, short 
and broad turgid, with a broad short 2-edged compressed ensi- 
form pointed seedless beak i in. long ; valves with the dorsal 
nerve prominent. Seeds subovate subangular tumid numerous, 
regularly in 2 rows in each cell. 
Suborder II. SILICULOSvE LATISEPT^E. 
Tribe IV. Alyssinece. 
12. Koniga R. Br. 
tttl* K. MARITIMA R. Br. Sweet Alyssum. 
St. suffrutescent downwards, procumbent ; 1. linear-lanceolate 
acute silky grey or hoary ; pouches oval with an abrupt point 
smooth. — Bab. 28. Lobularia maritima (Desv.) Koch 65. 
Clypeola maritima L. Desf. ii. 72. Alyssum maritimum Brot. i. 
558; EB. t. 1729; DC. Syst. ii. 318, 319; Prod. i. 164; Sm. 
E. Fl. iii. 162. Alyssum halimifolium Curt. BM. t. 101. 
/3. canariense DC. 11. cc. ; branches elongated, cells of pouches 
often 2-seeded. — Lobularia intermedia WB. i. 92. — Herb. ann. 
Mad. reg. 1 ; r. Waste ground amongst vineyards about Fun- 
chal here and there : but a mere outcast of gardens. About 
