Pl, ex. thal. 80. CRUCIFER.ZE. 422. Nasturtium. 679 
4. Nasturtium amphibium. Amphibious cress. 
Leaves oblong, lanceolate, pinnatifid, or serrate; petals 
longer than the calyx ; root fibrous. 
Raphanus aquaticus q. Radicula sylvestris sen palustris Joh. Bauhini, 
Raii Syn. 301, 1. 
Sisymbrium amptiibium, Lin. S. P. 917. 
Sisymbrium amphibium /3, Hudson FI. Angl. 296. 
Sisymbrium aquaticum, Pollich 2,230. 
Sisymbrium diversifolium, Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 3,450. 
Nasturtium amphibium, R. Brown in Hort. Kew. 110. 
River-sides ; annual ; June to August. 
Stem rooting, slightly branched; leaves simple, sometimes 
downy ; flowers yellow ; siliquce very short. 
0. pinnatifidum . Leaves pinnately lobed. 
Raphanus aquaticus, Ger. em. 240, 2. 
Sisymbrium amphibium y, Lin. S. P. 917. 
VI. 423. SISYMBRIUM. Theophrastus. Bank-cress. 
Siliquce nearly cylindrical or angular ; cotyledons incum- 
bent, sometimes obliquely flat; calyx spreading, sometimes 
rather upright. — Flower yellow; siliquce upright. 
1. Sisymbrium officinale. Shop bank-cress. 
Siliquce awlshape, downy, pressed close to the rachis ; 
leaves runcinate, hairy ; stem hispid. 
Eruca (spuria) hirsuta, siliqua caule adpressa, Erysimum dicta, Raii 
Syn. 298, 4. 
Erysimum Dioscorides Lobelio, Ger.em. 254, 1. 
Erysimum officinale, Lin. S. P. 922. 
Sisymbrium officinale, R. Brown in Hort . Kew. 111. 
Hedge mustard. Scrambling rocket. 
Walls and hedges, also cultivated ; annual; June, July. 
Herb hairy ; stem 2 feet high, branches spreading ; petals 
lemon-yellow. Used as a potherb, is warm and acrid; 
juice of great use in hoarseness, and ulcers of the throat, 
made into a syrup, and slowly swallowed. 
2. Sisymbrium latifolium. Broad-leaved bank-cress. 
Leaves runcinate, toothed, bald; stem smooth; siliquce 
upright, spread. 
Erysimum latifolium Neapolitanum, Raii Syn. 298,2. 
Sisymbrium Irio, Lin. S . P. 921. 
Irio laevis Apulus, erucae folio, Column. Ecphr. 264, 
Walls and ruins; annual; July and August. 
Herb always quite bald, acrid ; stem upright, 2 feet high, 
branched at top ; leaves pointed ; petals yellow ; siliquce very 
long. 
