. 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. 6. Lepidium sativum L Tiarden, Town or Golden Pepper-grass or Cress. Fig. 2042. Lcpidn Sp. PI. 644. 1753. Annual, glabrous, bright green, stem slender, usually much branched, about 1° high. Lower leaves 2-pinnate, or pinnate with the segments lobed or pinnatifid. 3'-7' long, the lobes entire or incised; upper leaves sessile or nearly so, entire or incised, much smalle
. 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. 6. Lepidium sativum L Tiarden, Town or Golden Pepper-grass or Cress. Fig. 2042. Lcpidn Sp. PI. 644. 1753. Annual, glabrous, bright green, stem slender, usually much branched, about 1° high. Lower leaves 2-pinnate, or pinnate with the segments lobed or pinnatifid. 3'-7' long, the lobes entire or incised; upper leaves sessile or nearly so, entire or incised, much smaller; flowers in loose elongated racemes, about i" broad; petals pres- ent ; stamens 6; silicles ovate-oval, about 2" high and i" wide, equalling or longer than their pedicels, emarginate, winged all around; style short. In waste places, Quebec to New Yojk and British Columbia. Escaped from gardens. Native of Eu- rope. Much cultivated for its pungent foliage. Petals often pinkish. Tongue-grass. 18. CARARA Medic. Pflg. i: 34. 1792. [CoRONOPUs Gaertn. Fruct. & Sem. 2: 293. 1791. Not Mill. 1754.] Annual or biennial, diffuse, unpleasantly odorous herbs, with mostly pinnatifid leaves, and small whitish flowers. Pubescence of simple hairs. Silicles small, didymous, laterally compressed, sessile. Stamens often only 2 or 4. Valves of the capsule oblong or subglobose, obtuse at each end, rugose or tuberculate, indehiscent, falling away from the septum at maturity. Seeds l in each cell, cotyledons narrow, incumbent. [Ancient Italian name.] ibution in warm and temperate regions. Type species: Pod rugose, not crested, emarginate. Pod coarsely wrinkled, crested, tuberculate. C. didymus. C. Coronopu. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Brown, Addis
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