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valves keeled, without wings, many-seeded. Cotyle- 
dons incumbent, (o II ). — Hooker. 
Name, the diminutive of capsula, a little casliet or capsule. 
1. Capsella bursa-pastoris. Common Shepherd's 
purse. 
De Cand. Syst. II. 283 — Thlapsi bursa-pastoris, Engl. But. 
X. 1 435. 
! LAB. Waste places, and coffee- fields, in the mountains. 
FI . Throughout the year. 
This is a very common plant in Europe, from whence it has 
migrated to this, as well as to almost every other region of the 
globe. Thus, it has been found in India and the Mauritius, 
and at Magellan’s straits and the Cape of Good Hope. In 
the specimens met with in this Island, the leaves towards the 
bottom of the stem are petiolated, obovato-oblong, attenuated 
at the base; those of the stem, lanceolate-sagittate ; all of them 
acute, toothed, hispid with stellated hairs. Seeds 10 in each 
cell; under the glass minutely punctulated. 
V. Sisymbrium. Hedge-mustard. 
Pod rounded or angular. Cotyledons incumbent, 
(O II ) sometimes oblique, plane. Calyx patent, some- 
times erect. — Brown. 
Name, from ciau^eiov, the designation of some plant probably 
allied to this genus. 
1 . Sisymbrium officinale. Common Hedge-mustard. 
Pods subulate pubescent closely pressed to the 
main-stalk, leaves muricated hairy, stem hispid. — 
Brown. 
Erysimum officinale, Engl. Bot. t. 735. — Sisymbrium offici- 
nale, Engl. FI. III. 196. — Hooker, Brit. FI. 305 — Pur&h, FI. 
Bor. Am. II. 436. — Be Cand. Syst. II. 436. 
HAP>. In coffee pieces and by the roadsides, Port-Royal 
mountains, not uncommon. 
FI.. Throughout the year. 
There cannot be a doubt but that this is identical with the 
species which bears the above designation, and which is com- 
mon in every part of Europe. The only point of difference is, 
that the pods, in our Jamaica specimens, are, when young, under 
the glass sparingly puberulous, but afterwards glabrous. 1 his 
is the case, according to Pursh, in the specimens collected by 
him in South Carolina. 
