. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. â â \o Pl/ATE 143. â SISYMBRIUM OFFICINALE. (CRESS FAMILY.) An»uaJ: stfm fii'it with lvitlf-sptfa<tiMg biiiHchfi. tuoif or If is hah v, t:to or thtre ^rrt hii;h , feinrs altfr note, munortatf pinnati/iii. sfgrnrnts foanfty ami i on the tiraHchrs, irry smatt ; petals /our, pate yellow, futtts slender, erect, close to the stem. tegitlath toothed; Jlowers tacemosely disposed HIv Cress-Family, which Ki\<-'S us so niatiy delicious vegetables, is famous for the numl)e
. Wild flowers of Canada [microform]. Wild flowers; Flowers; Botany; Fleurs sauvages; Fleurs; Botanique. â â \o Pl/ATE 143. â SISYMBRIUM OFFICINALE. (CRESS FAMILY.) An»uaJ: stfm fii'it with lvitlf-sptfa<tiMg biiiHchfi. tuoif or If is hah v, t:to or thtre ^rrt hii;h , feinrs altfr note, munortatf pinnati/iii. sfgrnrnts foanfty ami i on the tiraHchrs, irry smatt ; petals /our, pate yellow, futtts slender, erect, close to the stem. tegitlath toothed; Jlowers tacemosely disposed HIv Cress-Family, which Ki\<-'S us so niatiy delicious vegetables, is famous for the numl)er of troublesome weeds on its roll of menibership. TIil- wliillow-Kraxs, the Shepherd's I'urse, the hated CharlcxU, the i)ei)i)er grass, the winter-cress and many other plants oft condennieil by farmers, belong to this large family. ()l these tile Charlock alone, bane of grain-fields in IJurope and in the northern part of this continent, needs the full array of toothsome delicacies afforded by its relatives, to oalance its account of loss and harm. The Hedge Mustard, so named, doubtless, from its haoit of growing in hedgerows and shaded waste-ground and from the resemblance of its small yellow flowers to those of the true mustard, is another of the weeds for which we are indebted to the land of the black rat and the English sparrow. It is inidcniably an ugly plant with its stragglnig branches, rendered rag'^ed looking by the small slender pods close-preased to the stem. The yellow blossoms are much like those of the re«t of the family. Indeeu, among the cresses, the differences betw'-eu the flowers of different genera and si)ecies are almost limited to color. Sisymbriiun officinale is a common weed with us in the East, flowering in early summer. WHEELER'S CH/ETADELPHA. PI,ATE 144. CH/ETADELPHA WHEELERl. (SUNFLOWER FAMILY.) Perennial. stem erect, much branched ; tourer teafes narroivly linear, the uf'fietm,'sl mere scale-like bracts; heads single at the ends of the branc
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