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vi. crucifers: altssine^:. [Koniga. 
Newton Stewart, Scotland. Q. 5 — 7. — Pouch generally larger than in 
the last, but certainly not more elliptical or veiny than what we refer to 
that species ; leaves narrower and often more entire ; JIawcrs larger. 
The radical leaves are sometimes cordato-ovate, but usually oblong, 
never, so far as we have observed, broadly reniform or angled; but 
perhaps this and many other supposed species are only forms of the 
variable C. officinalis. 
11. Koniga Br. Koniga. 
Pouch subovate; valves nearly plane; cells l-ovuletl and 
1-seeded; seed-stalks with their base adnate to the dissepiment. 
Calyx patent, deciduous. Petals entire (white). Hypogynous 
glands 8. Filaments simple. — Name: revived by Mr. Brown, 
from the Konig of Adanson, and altered by him to Koniga in 
order to commemorate the important services rendered to Botany 
by Mr. Konig of the British Museum. 
1. K. *marUi.ma Br. ( Sea-side K., or sweet Alyssuiri). Alyssum 
Willd E. B. t. 1729: Benth. Clypeola L. 
Near the sea, but only where escaped or ejected from gardens. 
Budleigh Salterton, Devon ; on the garden-wall at Newlvn, Mount’s 
Bay, Cornwall ; near Aberdeen. If. 8,9. — Stem somewhat woody 
at the base. Leaves linear-lanceolate, hoary with bipartite adpressed 
hairs. Flowers white and fragrant, honey-scented. The plant is 
much cultivated. — Mr. Brown admits another species with several 
alternate ovules in each cell ; and some foreign authors have still 
more extended the genus. In several genera, as Aralis, the number 
of hypogynous glands varies from 4 to 8 ; so that perhaps future 
observations may again reduce the genus to Alyssum. 
( Alyssum calycinum L„ E. B. S. t. 2853, has been enumerated as a 
British species ; but it is unquestionably a plant recently introduced, 
either with seed-corn or ballast, though now established in several 
parts of England and Scotland. It has simple filaments, and long 
subulate processes instead of hypogynous glands, by which, and its 
persistent calyx, it is known from the rest of the genus. Berteroa 
incana DC., or Alyssum incanum E. and Farsetia incana Br., said to 
have been found near Lewes and Weymouth, has also no claims to be 
considered indigenous.) 
12. Draba Linn. "Whitlow-grass. 
Pouch or pod entire, oval or oblong; valves plane or convex, 
1 -nerved at the base, nerved or veiny upwards ; cells inany- 
seeded. Seeds not margined. Filaments simple. — Named from 
cya£ti, acrid, as are the ieaves of many of this tribe. 
* Petals deeply cloven, white. Erophila D C. 
1. D. verna L. ( common IE.) ; scapes naked, leaves lanceolate 
somewhat toothed hairy. — a. pouch compressed. E. B. t. 586. 
Erophila vulgaris DC. — /?. pouch swollen. 
