The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and TennesseeGray, Asa
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The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee
Gray, Asa
Plants -- United States
8. Lesquerella. Pod globular-inflated, about 4-seeded; valves nerveless.
Cotyledons accumbent. Flowers yellow.
9. Camelina. Pod obovoid, many-seeded; valves 1-nerved; style slender.
Cotyledons incumbent. Flowers yellow.
10. Subularia. Pod ovoid or globular, few-seeded, valves 1-nerved; style
none. Cotyledons long, folded transversely. Flowers white. Dwarf
stemless aquatic.
[+][+] Pod linear (or oblong or even globular in n. 10).
[++] Cotyledons accumbent.
11. Nasturtium. Pod often short; valves strongly convex, nerveless.
Seeds small, in 2 rows in each cell. Flowers yellow or white.
12. Barbarea. Pod somewhat 4-sided; valves strongly 1-nerved. Seeds in 1
row. Flowers yellow.
[++][++] Cotyledons incumbent or partially so.
13. Hesperis. Pod terete, elongated; stigma-lobes narrow, erect. Flowers
large, purple.
14. Erysimum. Pod 4-sided; valves strongly 1-nerved; stigma broadly
2-lobed. Pubescence of appressed 2--3-parted hairs. Flowers yellow.
15. Sisymbrium. Pod angled or teretish; valves 1--3-nerved; stigma
small. Flowers yellow or white, small.
16. Thelypodium. Pod teretish; valves 1-nerved; stigma entire.
Cotyledons obliquely incumbent. Flowers rose-color. Leaves auricled.
[++][++][++] Cotyledons conduplicate.
17. Brassica. Pod beaked or pointed beyond the end of the valves, or
tipped with a rigid style, nearly terete, or 4-sided. Flowers yellow or
whitish.
[*][*][*] Pod short; the boat-shaped valves conduplicate or much
flattened contrary to the narrow partition. Flowers white.
18. Capsella. Pod many-seeded, obcordate-triangular, wingless.
Cotyledons incumbent.
19. Thlaspi. Pod several-seeded, obovate or obcordate, winged.
Cotyledons accumbent.
20. Lepidium. Pod 2-seeded, flat, scale-shaped. Cotyledons incumbent or
accumbent.
21. Senebiera. Pod 2-seeded, didymous; the valves rugose, separating at
maturity from the little partition as 2 closed 1-seeded nutlets.
Cotyledons incumbent, narrow.
SERIES II. Pods indehiscent, continuous or transversely jointed; joints
1-celled.
22. Cakile. Pod short, 2-jointed; joints 1-seeded. Cotyledons plane,
accumbent.
23. Raphanus. Pod elongated, several-seeded, continuous, or constricted
between the seeds and moniliform. Cotyledons conduplicate.
1. SELÈNIA, Nutt.
Pod large, oblong-elliptical, flat; the valves nerveless. Seeds in 2
rows in each cell, rounded, broadly winged; cotyledons accumbent;
radicle short.--A low annual, with once or twice pinnatifid leaves and
leafy-bracteate racemes of yellow flowers. (Name from σελήνη, _the
moon_, with allusion to Lunaria, which it somewhat resembles in its
pods.)
1. S. aùrea, Nutt. Lobes of the simply pinnatifid leaves entire or
toothed; pod ½´ long, on elongated spreading pedicels, beaked by the
long slender style.--Mo. and Kan. to Tex.
2. LEAVENWÓRTHIA, Torr.
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