. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. Genl-s j8 MUSTARD FAMILY I. Conringia orientalis (L.) Dumort. Hare"s-ear, Treacle ^Mustard. Fig. 2061. Brassica orientalis L. Sp. PI. 666. 1753. E. perfoliatum Crantz, Slirp. Aust. i: 27. 1762. Brassica perfoliala Lam. Encycl. i: 748. 1783. Erysimum orienlale R. Br. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 4: 117. 1812. Conringia perfoliala Link, Enum. 2: 172. 1822. C. orientalis Dumor
. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British possessions : from Newfoundland to the parallel of the southern boundary of Virginia and from the Atlantic Ocean westward to the 102nd meridian. Botany. Genl-s j8 MUSTARD FAMILY I. Conringia orientalis (L.) Dumort. Hare"s-ear, Treacle ^Mustard. Fig. 2061. Brassica orientalis L. Sp. PI. 666. 1753. E. perfoliatum Crantz, Slirp. Aust. i: 27. 1762. Brassica perfoliala Lam. Encycl. i: 748. 1783. Erysimum orienlale R. Br. Hort. Kew. Ed. 2, 4: 117. 1812. Conringia perfoliala Link, Enum. 2: 172. 1822. C. orientalis Dumort. Fl. Belg. 123. 1827. Stem usuall}' erect, simple, or somewliat branched, i°-3° high. Leaves light green, obtuse at the apex, 2-5' long, l'-2' wide, the upper smaller; racemes at first short, much elongating in fruit; pedicels slender, ascend- ing, 4"-8" long; petals about i' long; nearly twice as long as the sepals; pods ^'s' long, about l" wide, 4-angled, spreading. In waste places, New Brunswick to Manitoba. Oregon, Delaware. Missouri and Colorado. A bad weed in the Northwest. 29. HESPERIS [Tourn.] L. Sp. PL 663. 1753. Erect perennial or biennial herbs, pubescent with forked hairs, with simple leaves and large racemose purple or white flowers. Stigma wdth 2 erect lobes. Siliques elongated, nearly cylindric, the valves keeled, dehiscent, l-rierved. Seeds in I row in each cell, globose, wing- less; cotyledons incumbent. [Name from Hesperus, evening, when the flowers are most fragrant.] About 25 species, natives of Europe and Asia. Type species : Hesperis malronalis L. I. Hesperis matronalis L. Dame's Rocket or Dame's Violet. Fig. 2062. Hesperis malronalis L. Sp. PI. 663. 1753. Erect, simple or sparingly branched above, 2°-3° high. Lower leaves 3-8' long, tapering into a petiole, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, dentate with minute teeth, pubescent on both sides; upper leaves similar but smaller, sessile or short-petioled ; flowers 8"-l2&quo
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