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PLANTS INDIGENOUS TO 
[Crucifem. 
Blennodia curvipes, F. M. in Transact. Phil. Soc. Viet. i. 100; Erysimum curvipes, F. M. in 
Linncea , 1852, 365. 
Leaves lanceolate or broad-linear, toothed or some entire; petals yellow , scarcely longer than the 
calyx j silique short, tetragonous-lanceolate, about or nearly as long as the spreading-ascendent slender 
pedicel; valves distinctly one-nerved ; seeds few in each cell, narrower than the lanceolate septum. 
In sandy localities on the Murray River, towards the junction of the Darling; in South Australia, 
N.W. of Lake Torrens and Spencer’s Gulf, and at Crystal Brook. 
An erect or more generally ascendent herb, about a span high. Root branched into long* thin divisions. 
Stems slender, terete. Radical as well as lower stem-leaves tapering into a rather short petiole, generally 
about 1 inch long’, minutely or grossly few-toothed. Upper stem-leaves from a few lines to nearly 1 inch 
long, sessile or short-stalked. Pedicels when in flower rather corymbose, 1-2 lines long, when in fruit 
curved-divaricate, 6-9 lines long, thickened at the summit. Sepals outside downy, almost equal at the base, 
1-1J line long, ovate. Petals obovate, hardly or short-unguiculate. Anthers yellow, about i line long, 
oblong-ovate. Filaments linear-subulate. Siliques 4-7 lines long, about 1| line broad, narrow lanceolate- 
ellipsoid, somewhat curved, acute, terminated by a short rather stout style and a depressed convex stigma. 
Valves very convex, carinate by a strong midnerve, rendering the silique nearly tetragonous. Funicles dilated 
at the base. ’ Septum membranous. Seeds irregularly biseriate, eradiating when moistened a copious opaque 
mucilage, ovate, rather turgid, brown, about J line long. 
It flowers during the spring*. No other species of this genus besides those referred to in the preceding 
pages are hitherto known. 
CAPSELLA. 
Mcench , Method, 'plant, stain, situ describ. 271. 
Sepals erect or spreading, equal at the .base. Petals undivided, equaL Stamens free, without 
teeth. Stigmas united. Silicle bivalved, deltoid- or ovate-obcordate, or ovate or ellipsoid, turgid or 
compressed. Valves wingless, one-nerved or almost nerveless, rarely appendiculate at the apex. Seeds 
subovate, in each cell several or few or only two, without a border. Funicles free. Cotyledons 
incumbent. 
Annual, biennial or perennial herbs, distributed over most of the temperate and colder regions 
of the globe. Their leaves variable in form. Pedicels racemose or corymbose, ebracteate. Petals 
white or pink. 
This genus includes Hymenolobus of Nuttall, and those species of Hutchinsia which have 
incumbent cotyledons, whilst those with accumbent cotyledons are clearly transferable to Thlaspi 
The approach of the typical Capsella species with many-seeded fruit-cells, through the subgenus 
Hutchinsia with two-seeded cells of the silicle, to Lepidium, is close in the extreme. In another 
direction the gradations to Blennodia are also complete. 
Capsella blennodina.—Blennodia alpestris, F. M. in Transact. Philos. Soc. Victoria , i. 100. 
Perennial , stems downy, robust, often leafless towards the summit; leaves lyrate or rhomboid or 
lanceolate-spatliulate, toothed or nearly entire, glabrous; pedicels puberulous, forming also in age a corymb 
or only a very short raceme, then very spreading and as long as or little longer than the tragonous-ellipsoul 
acute silicle ; petals oibicular-ovate, long-ungmculate, about twice as long* as the sepals; stamens not much 
longei than the calyx, shorter than the petals; valves nearly chartaceous, strongly one-nerved; septum 
about as bioad as the contrary transverse diameter of the fruit, lanceolate; seeds several in each cell, shining, 
dark-brown , reticulate. 
In subalpme grassy meadows at the sources of the Murray and Snowy Rivers : also in the ranges 
.Bathurst, according to W. Wools, Esq. 
near 
