. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 174 CRUCIFERAE. Vol. I. Erysimum officinale L. Scop. Hedge Weed or Mustard. Fig. 2059. Erysimum officinale L. Sp. PI. 660. 1753. Sisymbrium officinale Scop. Fl. Carn. Ed. 2, 2 : 26. 1772. 5. leiocarpiim Jord. Diag. i ; 139. 1864. Erect, more or less pubescent, or glabrous, l°- 3° high, with rigid spreading branches. Leaves runcinate-pinnatifid, the lower p
. 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 102d meridian. Botany; Botany. 174 CRUCIFERAE. Vol. I. Erysimum officinale L. Scop. Hedge Weed or Mustard. Fig. 2059. Erysimum officinale L. Sp. PI. 660. 1753. Sisymbrium officinale Scop. Fl. Carn. Ed. 2, 2 : 26. 1772. 5. leiocarpiim Jord. Diag. i ; 139. 1864. Erect, more or less pubescent, or glabrous, l°- 3° high, with rigid spreading branches. Leaves runcinate-pinnatifid, the lower petioled, the upper nearly sessile; lobes 3-6 pairs and an odd one, oblong, ovate or lanceolate, dentate, crenate or nearly entire, acutish or obtuse, the lower ones often recurved; pedicels i" long, «rect in fruit; flowers yellow, li" broad, pods s"-7" long, linear, acuminate, glabrous or pubescent, closely ap- pressed to the stem; valves with a strong promi- nent midrib. In waste places, common throughout our area, ex- cept the extreme northwest to the Pacific Coast. Also in Bermuda and in southern South America. Naturalized from Europe. Native also of northern Asia. May-Nov. Calii^ornia mustard. Bank-cress. Scrambling rocket. 27. NORTA Adans. Fam. PI. 2: 417. 1763. Biennial herbs, with alternate pinnatilid or dentate leaves and medium-sized yellow flowers. Pubescence, when present, of simple hairs. Sepals spreading. Pods narrowly linear, much elongated, terete or nearly so, divergent or ascending. Stigma 2-lobed. Seeds in I or 2 rows in each cell of the pod, oblong, not winged. Cotyledons incumbent. [Name unexplained.] About 10 species, natives of the Old World. Type species: Sisymbrium strictissimum L. I. Norta altissima (L.) Britton. Tall Sisymbrium. Fig. 2060. Sisymbrium allissimum L. Sp. PI. 659. 1753. Sisymbrium Sinapistrum Crantz, Slirp. Aust. Ed. 2, 52. 1769. Sisymbrium pannonicum Jacq. Coll. i: 70. 1786. Erect, 2°-4° high, freely branching, gl
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