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
L. CAMPÉSTRE, Br. Minutely _soft downy_; leaves arrow-shaped, somewhat
toothed; _pods ovate, winged_, rough, the style longer than the narrow
notch.--Old fields, Mass. and N. Y. to Va.; rare. (Nat. from Eu.)
L. DRÀBA, L. Perennial, _obscurely hoary_; leaves oval or oblong, the
upper with broad clasping auricles; flowers corymbose; _pods
heart-shaped, wingless_, thickish, entire, tipped with a conspicuous
style.--Astoria, near New York, _D. C. Eaton_. (Adv. from Eu.)
21. SENEBIÈRA, DC. WART-CRESS. SWINE-CRESS.
Pod flattened contrary to the narrow partition; the two cells
indehiscent and falling away at maturity from the partition as closed
nutlets, strongly wrinkled or tuberculate, 1 seeded. Cotyledons narrow
and incumbently folded transversely. Low and diffuse or prostrate
annuals or biennials, with minute whitish flowers. Stamens often only 2.
(Dedicated to _J. Senebier_, a distinguished vegetable physiologist.)
S. DÍDYMA, Pers. Leaves 1--2-pinnately parted; _pods notched at the
apex, rough-wrinkled_.--Waste places, at ports, E. Mass. to Va., etc.;
an immigrant from farther south.
S. CORONÒPUS, DC. Leaves less divided, with narrower lobes; _pods not
notched at the apex, tubercled_.--At ports, R. I. to Va., etc. (Adv.
from Eu.)
22. CAKÌLE, Tourn. SEA-ROCKET.
Pod short, 2-jointed across, fleshy, the upper joint separating at
maturity; each indehiscent, 1-celled and 1-seeded, or the lower
sometimes seedless. Seed erect in the upper, suspended in the lower
joint. Cotyledons obliquely accumbent.--Seaside fleshy annuals. Flowers
purplish. (An old Arabic name.)
1. C. Americàna, Nutt. (AMERICAN SEA-ROCKET.) Leaves obovate, sinuate
and toothed; lower joint of the fruit obovoid, emarginate; the upper
ovate, flattish at the apex.--Coast of the Northern States and of the
Great Lakes. July--Sept.--Joints nearly even and fleshy when fresh; the
upper one 4-angled and appearing more beaked when dry.
23. RÁPHANUS, Tourn. RADISH.
Pods linear or oblong, tapering upward, indehiscent, several-seeded,
continuous and spongy within between the seeds, or necklace-form by
constriction between the seeds, with no proper partition. Style long.
Seeds spherical and cotyledons conduplicate, as in Brassica.--Annuals or
biennials. (The ancient Greek name from ῥαι, _quickly_, and φαίνω, _to
appear_, alluding to the rapid germination.)
R. RAPHANÍSTRUM, L. (WILD RADISH. JOINTED CHARLOCK.) Pods necklace-form,
long-beaked; leaves lyre-shaped, rough; petals yellow, turning whitish
or purplish, veiny.--A troublesome weed in fields, E. New Eng. to Penn.
(Adv. from Eu.)
ORDER 11. CAPPARIDÀCEÆ. (CAPER FAMILY.)
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