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RICOTIA xeyptiaca. 
_ Egyptian Ricotia. 
1 TETRADYNAMIA -SILICULOSA. 
RICOTIA. Cal. (tetraphyllus) connivens. (Corolle) petala (4 
in crucem disposita, unguiculata,) apice plana obcordatay  ‘Stylis) 0. . 
(Silicula oblonga sessilis: valvis planis; septo obliterato unilocularis, 
Cotyledones accumbentes obcordate. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2.4. 
98.) Folia pinata; foliolis lobatis. Lunarim fructus sed unilocularis 
angustior. Sem. circiter 4. Jussieu. gen. 239. 
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R. egyptiaca, foliis pinnatis: foliolis incisis 
pendulis. Persoon. syn. 2. 194. j 
Ricotia egyptiaca., Lin. sp. pl..2. 912. Hort. Kew. 2. 386. ed. 2.4: 
98. Willd. sp. pl. 3. 477. 3 
Lunaria egyptiaca. Mart. Mill. Dict. n. 3. 
Lunaria Ricotia. - Gaertn. sem. 2. 289. ¢. 142. f. 1, 
bot. 3. 51. ; 
L. foliis supradecompositis: foliolis t 
Mill. ic. 2.113. t. 169. . e311 
Cardamine Lunaria. Lin. sp. pl. ed..1. 2. 656. 
Planta annua, debilior et modo diffusa, tota glabra. Caulis ramosus, 
pede communitér brevior. Folia inferiis caulina, impari-pinnata, distantér 
bijuga § ypoliala petiolata, lamind lata rotundatd integra »v. sepiis lobato- 
incisd. Racemi multiflort, ramorum continut, erectiusculi, senstm elongandi ; 
pedicelli flore breviores, ebracteati, distantes, sparsi. Cal. subcoloratus, 
Soliolis lineari-oblongis, apice patulis, 2 alternis basi gibbis et saccatis. Cor. 
erecta, purpurascens, alba in disco; petalorum ungues angustissimi, calyce 
parim altiores. Stam. longitudine unguium. Pistillum Ais vie cequale 
stylus subnullus: stigma in sensi ill a quo comprimitur germen contrario 
compressum, obtusits lanceolatum, secundim utramque aciem pubescens. Si- 
licula membranacea, subdiaphana, lanceolato-ovalis, subrhomboidea, unciam 
viz unam longa: sem..pauca, orbiculata, lenticulari-compressa.. 
, floribus racemosis, siliculis 
Roth. catalecta 
nfidis, siliquis oblongis pendulis, 
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An annual plant, by no means common, although of lon 
standing in our gardens, having been cultivated in 1757 by 
Miller; who says that it had been brought a few years be- 
fore from Egypt to the royal gardens at Paris. Very like © 
the common annual or mediterranean Stock. ¥ 
- The genus was instituted by Linneus, and distinguished 
from Lunarta, chiefly by its sessile unilocular silicle, which 
is not, as in that, conspicuously pedicled and divided into © 
two loculaments by a persistent detached dissepiment pa- 
rallel with and equal to the valves, a 
