. 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 . Britton. Hedge-garlic. Garlic Mustard or Root. Fig. 2050. Erysimum Alliaria L. Sp. PI. 660. Sisyi Alliaria Scop. Fl. Carn. Ed. 2, A. Alliaria Britton, Mem. Torn Club 5: 167. 1894. Erect, branching, i°-3° high, glabrous or with a few hairs on the petioles and leaf-margins. Leaves reniform, broadly ovate or cordate, rarely nearly orbicular, crenate or undulate, the lower 2-7'
. 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 . Britton. Hedge-garlic. Garlic Mustard or Root. Fig. 2050. Erysimum Alliaria L. Sp. PI. 660. Sisyi Alliaria Scop. Fl. Carn. Ed. 2, A. Alliaria Britton, Mem. Torn Club 5: 167. 1894. Erect, branching, i°-3° high, glabrous or with a few hairs on the petioles and leaf-margins. Leaves reniform, broadly ovate or cordate, rarely nearly orbicular, crenate or undulate, the lower 2-7' broad on long petioles, the upper smaller, sessile or nearly so: pedicels 2"-^" long, spread- ing and very stout in fruit; flowers white, 3"-4" broad; pods glabrous, stiff, l'-2' long, i" thick, pointed. 4-sided when dry. Waste places, woods and along roadsides, Quebec and Ontario to southern New York, New Jersey and Virginia. Naturalized from Europe. Native also of northern .'\sia. May-June. Called also Jack-by-the- hedge and sauce-alone. Jack-in-the-bush. Poor- man's mustard. Penny-hedge. 24. SOPHIA PL 2:417. 1763. [Descl-raini.\ Webb & Barth. Phyt. Can. i: 71. 1836.] Annual or perennial herbs (some exotic species shrubby), canescent or pubescent with short forked hairs, with slender branching stems, 2-pinnatifid or finely dissected leaves, and small yellow flowers .in terminal racemes, the racemes much elongating in fruit. Calyx early deciduous. Style very short; stigma simple. Siliques linear or linear-oblong, slender- pedicelled, the valves l-nerved. Seeds very small, oblong, wingless, in I or 2 rows in each cell; cotyledons incumbent. [Name in allusion to reputed medicinal properties.] About 20 species, natives of the north temperate zone, the Canary Islands and the Andes of South America. Besides the following, several others occur in the western United States. Type species: Sisymbrium Sophia L. Pods narrowly linear, 8"-i2&q
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