. Botany; an elementary text for schools. Plants. 336 THE KINDS OF PLANTS. 460. Alyssum maritimum. 8. ALtSSUM. Alyssum. Small plants, mostly trailing, with entire and small leaves: pod small, orbicular, one or two seeds in each locule: flowers in elongating racemes. A. maritimum, Linn. Sweet alyssum of the gardens (from Europe). Fig. 460. Annual, producing a profu- sion of small white, fragrant flowers, 9. CAPSELLA. Shepherd's Purse. Low short-lived annuals, with very small white flowers in racemes: pod obcordate or inversely triangu- lar, the partition running across the narrow diameter, cont
. Botany; an elementary text for schools. Plants. 336 THE KINDS OF PLANTS. 460. Alyssum maritimum. 8. ALtSSUM. Alyssum. Small plants, mostly trailing, with entire and small leaves: pod small, orbicular, one or two seeds in each locule: flowers in elongating racemes. A. maritimum, Linn. Sweet alyssum of the gardens (from Europe). Fig. 460. Annual, producing a profu- sion of small white, fragrant flowers, 9. CAPSELLA. Shepherd's Purse. Low short-lived annuals, with very small white flowers in racemes: pod obcordate or inversely triangu- lar, the partition running across the narrow diameter, containing several seeds. C. Biirsa-pastdris, Moench. Common shepherd's V/^c5t^l<i^^ ;j(( Fig. 259. One of the commonest little weeds: ^^-~^)^^ ^ root leaves pinnatiftd or strong-toothed, in a rosette, the stem leaves arrow-shaped. Europe. 10. LEPlDIUM. Pepper Grass. Small stifiish annuals (or biennials), which shed their leaves late in the season: flowers very small, white or greenish, in elongat- ing racemes: pod small and roundish, the partition running across the narrow diameter. Plant peppery to the taste. L. Virginicum, Linn. Common pepper grass. About 1 ft. high, much branched, glabrous: leaves linear to lanceolate, tapering to the base, the lower mostly pinnatifld. Common weed; often fed to canary birds. IL IBfiRIS. Candytuft. Fig. 178. Herbs with white or purple flowers in flat or elongated clusters: 2 outer petals larger than 2 inner: silicles flattened, truncate, cells 1-seeded. Cultivated. I. umbellElta, Linn. Annual, 1 ft. or more: lower leaves lanceolate, the upper linear and entire: flowers mostly purple or lilac in flat clusters: silicles, acutely 2-lobed. June and July. I. corond,ria, Don. Jiocket candytuft. Leaves somewhat toothed; flowers white in spike-like racemes. 12. RAPHANUS. Radish. Annual or biennial herbs, with lyrate, pinnately-lobed root leaves: flowers rather showy in long racemes: calyx erect: petals clawed: style long and slender: pod linear,
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