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AA. Hairs not stellate; pod oval, its cells 4-ovuled. E. 
L. occidentalis Wats. 
3 HUTCHINSIA 
Annual. Leaves pinnatifid. Flowers small, white, in terminal racemes. Petals 
small. Stigma sessile. Pod ovate or elliptic, membranous, but little flattened at right 
angles to the partition, somewhat tumid: its margin slightly keeled, wingless. Seeds many 
in each cell, in 2 rows. (Honor of a Miss Hutchins, an Irish botanist.) W. E. 
H. procumbens DC. 
CAPSELLA (Bursa) SHEPHERD’S PURSE 
Annual, erect, pubescent with forked hairs. Basal leaves in a rosette, stem-leaves 
fewer. Flowers small, white, in terminal racemes. Style short. Pod cuneate or obcordate 
or triangular, flattened at right angles to the partition; valves boat-shaped, keeled. Seeds 
many in each cell, marginless. (Diminutive of L. capsa—a box; referring to the pod.) 
Se C. bursa-pastoris Med. 
CAMELINA FALSE FLAX 
Annual, erect. Leaves sagittate-clasping, entire to pinnatifid. Flowers pale yellow 
(ours) or white. Sepals somewhat colored, often villous. Petals spatulate or obovate, 
clawed. Style slender; stigma entire. Pod obovoid or pear-shaped; valves firm, |-veined, 
strongly convex; partition thin, wide, obovoid, persistent. Seeds in 2 rows in each cell, 
“many, wingless. (Gk. chamai—dwarf, linon—flax. ) 
A. Pod 6—7 mm. wide; plant glabrous or nearly so. W. E. 
C. sativa Crantz 
AA. Pod 4—5 mm. wide; plant pubescent at least below. E. 
C. microcarpa Andrz. 
NESLIA 
Annual, erect, branching, hispid with branched hairs. Leaves entire: the upper 
* clasping by a sagittate base (ours), lanceolate or linear-lanceolate (ours). Flowers yel- 
fow, small, about 2 mm. wide (ours), in racemes. Style filiform. Pod small, globose, 
wingless, reticulated, indehiscent, |-celled, |—-2-seeded. (Honor of J. A. N. De Nesle, 
a French botanist.) E. N. paniculata Desv. 
DRABA WHITLOW-GRASS 
Annual or perennial, low, tufted, mostly stellate-pubescent; stems scapose or leafy. 
Leaves simple, entire or toothed. Flowers white or yellow, chiefly in racemes. Stigma 
nearly entire. Pod elliptic or oblong or linear, flat, dehiscent; valves veinless. Seeds few 
to many, wingless, in 2 rows in each cell. (Gk. drabe—biting; referring to the sharp 
taste. ) 
A. Flowers white. 
B. Pedicels reflexed. U. (Heterodraba unilateralis.) 
D. unilateralis Jones (Twisted Whitlow-Grass) 
BB.  Pedicels not reflexed. Rt 
C. Petals deeply 2-cleft. W.E. (Eriophila verna.) 
D. verna L. (Early Whitlow-grass) 
CC. Petals entire or merely emarginate. 
D. Annual, herbaceous thruout; leafy stemmed. 

