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750 TETRADYNAMIA. SILICULOSA. Camelina. 
concave, parallel to the partition: (two of the filaments 
marked with little teeth. E.) 
(A. marit'imum. Stem somewhat woody, much branched, spreading -* 
leaves spear-shaped, acute, entire, hoary with adpressed hairs: 
stamens simple: seeds solitary. 
E. Bot. 1729— Curt. Mag. 101. 
Leaves alternate. Blossoms numerous, white, fragrant. Stamens and claws 
of the petals , turning purple in decay. Pouches in long clusters, two- 
celled, two-seeded, a little convex. E. Bot. 
Sweet Alyssum. A. maritimum. Willd. A. minimum. Linn. Half a 
mile from the sea near Aberdeen, added to the British Flora by Professor 
XV. Duncan of Aberdeen. Since found on the maritime cliffs of Devon, at 
Budleigh-Salterton, by Dr. Hooker; but suspected not to be wild there. 
In the more genial climates of the South, perennial; in this country more 
frequently annual. E.)* 
(CAMELI'NA .f Pouch sub-ovate, many-seeded; valves tumid: 
Filaments without teeth. E.) 
(C. sati'va. Stem herbaceous: leaves spear-arrow-shaped : pouch in¬ 
versely egg-shaped, bordered, thrice as long as the style. E.) 
{Hook. FI. Lond. 70— E. Bot. 1254. E.)— FI. Ban. 1038 —Kniph. 11— 
Trag. 655— Lonic. i. 154. 1— Ger. 213. 2—Bod. 532. 1— Lob. Ohs. 111.3, 
and Ic. i. 224. 2—Ger. Em. 273. 3—Park. 868. 2— Pet. 48. 11— H. Ox. 
iii. 21, row 3. 2 — J. B. ii. 892— II. Ox. ii, 21, row 2. 1 . f. 4— Matth. 
1172. 
Stem (two to three feet high, E.) cylindrical below, somewhat angular 
above, slightly hairy, clothed with leaves. Leaves alternate, spear- 
shaped, arrow-shaped at the base, half embracing the stem, slightly 
toothed, hairy. Blossom yellow. Pouches on long fruit-stalks, terminated 
by a long style; partition extending beyond and forming a strong ridge 
round the seed-vessel. Woodw. (Petals blunt, entire. Seeds slightly 
angular, inversely egg-shaped, never notched at the end. FI. Brit. E.) 
Gold of Pleasure. (C. sativa. Crantz. Br. in Ait. Pers. De Cand. 
Hook. Sm. Grev. Myagrum sativum. Linn. Lightf. Oed. Willd. Mo~ 
enchia sativa. With. Roth. Hull. Alyssum satirum. FI. Brit. E. Bot. E.) 
Corn-fields ; among flax often plentifully, but apparently imported with 
it from foreign countries. Near Bridport and Lime in Dorsetshire. Hey- 
don, Norfolk. Rev. Mr. Bryant. (In Hezlington field near York. Sir 
Thomas Frankland. Out of St. Giles’s Gate, Norwich, by the road side. 
Sir J. E. Smith. Lackenheath Field, by Wangford, Suffolk. E. Bot. 
(On Ballast Hills, and waste ground, Durham; and Jesmond fields, 
near Newcastle. Mr. Winch. Calton Hill. Mr. D. Steuart. Grev. Edin. 
E.) A. May—June4 
* (It is commonly cultivated in gardens for its agreeable honey-like scent j and we 
should suppose might prove a valuable acquisition to the apiarian border. E.) 
i* (Supposed a corruption of Chameelinuvi; but the appropriate meaning is not very 
intelligible. E.) 
t It is cultivated in Germany for the sake of the expressed oil of the seeds, which the 
inhabitants use for medicinal, culinary, and economical purposes. The seeds are a fa¬ 
vourite food with geese. Horses, cows, goats, and sheep eat it. 
