678 422. Nasturtium. 80. CRUCIFERiE. Pl.ex.thal. 
V. 422. NASTURTIUM. Pliny. Cress . 
Siliquee nearly cylindrical, sometimes short; valves con- 
cave, ribs 0; keel 0; cotyledons accumbent; calyx spread- 
in g. — Siliquee declinate. 
1. Nasturtium officinale . Shop cress. 
Leaves pinnate; leaflets ovate, rather heartshape, repand. 
Nasturtium aquaticum seu Sisymbrium Cardamine, Raii Syn. 300, 1. 
Nasturtium aquaticum, sive Cratevae Sium, Ger.em. 251. 
Nasturtium aquaticum vulgare, Park. 1239, 
Sisymbrium Nasturtium, Lin. S. P. 910. 
Nasturtium officinale, R. Brown in Hort. Kevo. 110. 
Water cress . 
Damp places and brooks ; perennial ; June and July. 
Stem declinate, rooting at bottom; leaves shining; petals 
white; siliquee spreading. — An excellent spring sallad, an- 
tiscorbutic, less acrid than scurvygrass. 
/3. preecox. Leaves smaller; flowers earlier. 
Nasturtium aquaticum foliis minoribus prascocius, Rail Syn. 301,2. 
y. paueijugatum. Leaflets fewer paired. 
Nasturtium aquaticum pinnulis paucioribus, Dillen in Raii Syn. 30 1, 3 . 
2. Nasturtium sylvestre. Wild cress. 
Leaves pinnate ; leaflets lanceolate, serrate or deeply cut. 
Eruca (spuria) aquatica, Raii Syn. 297, 1 ; Ger. em. 248, 6 ; Park. 1242. 
Sisymbrium sylvestre, Lin. S. P. 916. 
Nasturtium sylvestre, R. BrGwn in Hort. Kew. 1 10. 
Water rocket. 
Marshes and river banks; perennial; June to September. 
Root creeping; stem upright, angular, panicled; leaves 
bald; leaflets decurrent; petals gold-yellow \ fruit racemose. 
3. Nasturtium terrestre . Land cress . 
Leaves pinnatifid, toothed, bald; root fusiform; petals 
as long as the calyx. 
Raphanus aquaticus foliis in profundis lacinias divisis, Dillen in Raii 
Syn. 301,2. 
Sisymbrium terrestre, Curtis FI. Land. 
Sisymbrium palustre, Willd. S. P. 3,49. 
Sisymbrium ampliibium a, Hudson FI. Angl. 296. 
Nasturtium terrestre, R. Brown in Hort. Keto. 
Water radish. 
Inundated places ; annual; June to September. 
Stem upright, branched; petals very small, yellow; sili- 
quee spreading horizontally, racemose. 
