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LEPI'DIUM * * * * § . 
Linnean Class and Order. Tetradyxa'mia f, Siltcolo'saJ. 
Natural Order. Cruci'ferte^, Juss. Gen. PI. p. 237. — Sm. 
Gram, of Bot. p. 138. — Rich, by Macgilliv. p. 498. — Cruciferas; 
subord. Notorhize^:||; tribe, Lepidinea: ; Lindl. Syn. pp. 20, 
21 , 29, & 30. ; Introd. to Nat. Syst. of Bot. pp. 14 to 18. — Loud. 
Hort. Brit. pp. 498 & 499. ; Mag. Nat. Hist. v. i. pp. 143 & 240. — 
lion’s Gen. Syst. of Gard. and Bot. v. i. pp. 146 & 201. — Mack. 
FI. Hibern. pt. i. pp. 16, 23, & 25. — Rosales; subord. Rhcea- 
dosae; sect. Riiteadinab ; type, Brassicaceas; Burn. Outl.of 
Bot. v. ii. pp. 614, 784, 847, & 854. — Siliquoste, Linn. 
Ge.\. Char. Calyx (fig. 1.) inferior, equal at the base, of 4 
elliptical, concave, nearly equal sepals. Corolla (see fig. 2.) of 4, 
undivided, equal petals. Filaments (see fig. 2.) 6, simple, 2 shorter 
than the other 4, all shorter than the petals, sometimes deficient in 
number. Anthers of 2 roundish lobes. Germen (see fig. 2.) roundish. 
Style (see figs. 2 & 3.) slender, or wanting. Stigma (see figs. 2 & 3.) 
blunt. Pouch (fig. 4.) egg-shaped, or oblong, transversely com- 
pressed, either entire or notched at the summit, crowned with the 
style or stigma, of 2 cells (see fig. 5.) ; valves keeled, or occasion- 
ally ventricose ; partition very narrow, crossing the greater diame- 
ter of the pouch. Seeds 1 in each cell, pendulus, egg-shaped, 
somewhat angular, or flattened. Cotyledons oblong, incumbent (o|| ), 
rarely accumbent (o=). 
Distinguished from other genera, in the same class and order, by 
the egg-shaped, or somewhat heart-shaped, dehiscent pouch, with 
keeled, or rarely ventricose valves ; the 1 -seeded cells ; and the some- 
what triquetrous, or compressed seeds, with incumbent cotyledons. 
Five species British. 
LEPI'DIUM LATIFO'LIUM. Broad-leaved Pepper-wort. Poor 
Man’s Pepper. Dittander. 
Spec. Char. Pouch oval, entire, pointed with the stigma. 
Leaves egg-spear-shaped, undivided, a little serrated ; lower ones 
on long footstalks. 
Engl. Bot. t. 182.— ltay’s Syn. p. 304. — Linn. Sp. PI. p.899. — Willd. Sp. 
PI. v. iii. pt. i. p.436. — Huds. FI. Angl. (2nd ed.) p.279. — Sm. FI. Brit. v. ii. 
p.682. Engl. FI. v. iii. p. 165. — With. (7th ed.) v. iii. p. 757. — Gray's Nat. 
Arr. v. ii. p.693. — Lindl. Syn. p. 31. — Hook. Brit. FI. p.296. — Lightf. FI. Scot, 
v. i. p.339. — Davies’ Welsh Bot. p. 62. — Relh. FI. Cant. (3rd ed.) p.261. — 
Hook. FI. Scot. p. 194.— Grev. FI. Edin. p. 140. — Winch’s FI. of Northumb. and 
Durham, p. 42.— Don’s Gen. Syst. of Gard. and Bot. v. i. p.220. — Mack. CataL 
of PI. of Irel. p. 60. ; FI. Hibern. pt. i. p. 26. — Raphanus sylvestris officina- 
rum, Johnson’s Gerarde, p. 241. 
Fig. 1. Calyx. — Fig. 2. A Flower, showing the Calyx, Corolla, Stamens, and 
Pistil. — Fig. 3. Germen.— Fig. 4. A Pouch. — Fig. 5. A transverse section of 
the Pouch . — All magnified. 
* From lepis lepidos, Gr. a scale ; in allusion to the form of the pods, which 
resemble little scales. Don. 
f See Draba verna, f. 38. n. f. i See Crambe maritima, f. 107. n. 
§ See Draba verna, f. 38, a. || See Erysimum cheiranthoides, f. 62. n. ||. 
