5. D. brachycárpa, Nutt. Low (2--4´ high), minutely pubescent; _stems leafy_ to the base of the dense at length elongated raceme; leaves narrowly oblong or the lowest ovate (2--4´´ long), few toothed or entire; flowers small; _pods smooth, narrowly oblong, acutish_ (2´´ long), _about the length of the ascending or spreading pedicels_.--Dry hills, Ill., Ky., Va. (_A. H. Curtiss_), and southward. April.--Petals sometimes minute, sometimes none. 6. D. nemoròsa, L. Leaves oblong or somewhat lanceolate, more or less toothed; _racemes elongated_ (4--8´ long in fruit); petals emarginate, small; _pods elliptical-oblong, half the length of the horizontal or widely-spreading pedicels_, pubescent or smooth.--Fort Gratiot, Mich., N. Minn., and westward. (Eu.) § 3. ERÓPHILA. _Petals 2-cleft. (Annual or biennial; flowers white.)_ D. VÉRNA, L. (WHITLOW-GRASS.) Small (scapes 1--3´ high); leaves all radical, oblong or lanceolate; racemes elongated in fruit; pods varying from round-oval to oblong-lanceolate, smooth, shorter than the pedicels.--Sandy waste places and roadsides. April, May. (Nat. from Eu.) 7. ALÝSSUM, Tourn. Pod small, orbicular, with only one or two wingless seeds in a cell; valves nerveless, somewhat convex, the margin flattened. Flowers yellow or white. Filaments often toothed. Cotyledons accumbent. (Greek name of a plant reputed to check the hiccup, as the etymology denotes.) A. MARÍTIMUM, L. (SWEET ALYSSUM), with green or slightly hoary linear leaves, honey-scented small white flowers, and 2-seeded pods, commonly cult., begins to be spontaneous southward. (Adv. from Eu.) A. CALYCÌNUM, L., a dwarf hoary annual, with linear-spatulate leaves, pale yellow or whitish petals little exceeding the persistent calyx, and orbicular sharp margined 4-seeded pod, the style minute, occurs occasionally in grassland. (Adv. from Eu.) 8. LESQUERÉLLA, Watson. Pod mostly globular or inflated, with a broad orbicular to ovate hyaline partition nerved to the middle, the hemispherical or convex thin valves nerveless. Seeds few or several, in 2 rows, flat. Cotyledons accumbent. Filaments toothless.--Low herbs, hoary with stellate hairs or lepidote. Flowers mostly yellow. (Named for _Leo Lesquereux_.) 1. L. globòsa, Watson. Minutely hoary all over; stems spreading or decumbent from an annual or biennial root; leaves oblong or lanceolate with a tapering base, repand-toothed or nearly entire; raceme at length elongated, with filiform diverging pedicels; petals light yellow; style filiform, much longer than the small globose, acutish, about 4-seeded pod; seeds marginless. (Vesicaria Shortii, _Torr._)--Rocky banks, Ky. to Tenn. and Mo. May, June. 2. L. grácilis, Watson. Annual, slender; pubescence very fine; leaves narrowly oblanceolate; pods glabrous, suberect on ascending or curved pedicels, stipitate; style long. (Vesicaria gracilis, _Hook._)--S. Kan. to Tex.