756 TETRADYNAMIA. SILICULOSA. Lepidium. 
toothed, hairy: pouch elliptical, blunt, flat, shorter than the 
partial stalks. 
( Hook. FI Lond. 64-— E. Boi. 912. E.)—Col. Ecphr. 2,72—Barr. 816— 
Bauh. pr. 50— Park. 843. 13— H. Ox. iii. 20. 5— J. B. ii. 939. 1— Pet. 
48. 5. 
Root-leaves entire at the base, toothed upwards. Pouches exactly elliptical, 
ending in a short blunt knob which is the summit. Woodw. ( Stem and 
leaves hairy. Stem-leaves rather heart-shaped. Petals very slightly 
notched at the end. Flowers white, small, numerous, forming a long 
flowering bunch. Stem a span to a foot high, scabrous. The calyx has 
been represented hairy; but Hooker and Lamarck determine it to be 
smooth. E.) 
Speedwell-leaved Whitlow-grass. Fissures of rocks, mountainous 
and stony pastures, especially in calcareous soil, in Derbyshire, York¬ 
shire, and Westmoreland. Arnbar Scar, near Arncliff, Littendale and 
Malham Cove. Curtis. Near to a cotton manufactory a little below 
Malham Cove. Mr. Caley. (Wardon Hills, near Barton, Bedfordshire. 
Rev. Dr. Abbot. At Old Mai ton, on walls. Rev. Archdeacon Pierson. 
On dry banks at Emborough, Somersetshire. Mr. Sole. E.) 
A. April—May. 
D. INCa'na. Stem-leaves numerous, hoary, with starry pubescence: 
pouch oblong, oblique, nearly sessile. 
( E. Bot. 388. E.)— FI Dan. 130— Pet. 48. 3 and 4>—Pluk. 42. 1. 
Radical-leaves very numerous, disposed in a rose-like form, spear-shaped, 
cottony and somewhat hairy, entire, pointed ; stem-leaves often upwards 
of thirty, sessile, with a few teeth, similar to the root-leaves, but shorter, 
the uppermost egg-shaped, on the lower part of the stem more crowded. 
Stem a hand’s breadth long, straight, hoary, cloathed with leaves. 
Flowers in a small terminal corymbus, which, when the fruit is ripe, 
becomes a hunch. Petals white, slightly notched. Pouches upright, egg- 
oblong, inclining contrary to the sun, compressed, naked. Fruit-stalks 
hoary, three times shorter than the pouches, stiff, approaching to the 
stem. Linn. Stems six to nine inches, slightly cottony, simple, crooked. 
Leaves oval-spear-shaped, a little hairy, the lower slightly, the upper 
deeply toothed. Fruit-stalks nearly as long as the pouches. Pouches 
spear-shaped, smooth, twisted, terminated by the blunt summit. 
Woodw. 
Twisted-podded Whitlow-grass. Fissures of limestone rocks, and 
moist mountainous meadows, Westmoreland, and Carnarvonshire. 
About Settle, (and various parts of Yorkshire. E.) Rock near the sum¬ 
mit of Ingleborough, on the west side. Mr. Woodward. Side of Rose- 
berry Coppin, Yorkshire. Mr. Robson. (Cronkley Fell. Rev. J. Har- 
riman. On walls in Teesdale, Durham. Mr. Brunton. Bot. Guide. 
At Durness, Sutherland; and on Ben Lawers. Mr. Anderson. E.) 
B. May—July. 
LEPID'IUM.^ Pouch notched at the end, compressed : Valves 
sharply keeled : one seed in each cell. 
* (From Kent;, a scale j as an antiscorbutic formerly supposed to cleanse the skin even 
from leprosy, E.) 
