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 . ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 CRUCIFERAE. Vol. II. I. Cakile edentula (Bigel.) Hcx)k. Amer- ican Sea Rocket. Fig. 2112. Bunias edentula Bigel. Fl. Bost. 157. 1814. Cakile americana Nutt. Gen. 2: 62. 1818. Cakile edentula Hook. Fl. Bor. An 1830. Very fleshy throughout, bushy-branched from a deep root, the lower branches spreading or ascending, the central ones erect, 1
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 . ed2illustratedflo02brit Year: 1913 CRUCIFERAE. Vol. II. I. Cakile edentula (Bigel.) Hcx)k. Amer- ican Sea Rocket. Fig. 2112. Bunias edentula Bigel. Fl. Bost. 157. 1814. Cakile americana Nutt. Gen. 2: 62. 1818. Cakile edentula Hook. Fl. Bor. An 1830. Very fleshy throughout, bushy-branched from a deep root, the lower branches spreading or ascending, the central ones erect, 1° in height or less. Leaves oblanceolate, or obovate, obtuse, sinuate-dentate or lobed, narrowed at the base, the lower s's' long; flowers light purple, 2'-3' broad; petals long-clawed, more than twice the length of the sepals; pod 6'-io' long, upper joint slightly longer than the lower, ovoid, angled, flattened, narrowed into a beak above; lower joint obovoid, not flattened. In sands of the seashore, Newfoundland to New Jersey and Florida, and along the Great Lakes, New York to Minnesota. Also on the California coast. Summer. Family 39. CAPPARIDACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 61. 1836. Caper F.\milv. Herbs or shrubs (rarely trees), with a watery sap, alternate or very rarely opposite, simple or palmately compound leaves and axillary or terminal, solitary or racemose, regular or irregular, mostly perfect flowers. Sepals 4-8. Petals 4 (rarely none), sessile or clawed. Receptacle elongated or short. Stamens 6-co, not tetradynamous, inserted on the receptacle; anthers oblong. Ovary sessile or stipitate; style generally short; ovules 00, borne on parietal placentae. Fruit a capsule or berry. Seeds mainly reniform in our species ; endosperm none ; embryo generally coiled. A family of about J5 genera and 450 species, mostly of warm regions. Pod long-stipitate on its pedicel; stamens 4-6. Pod linear-elongated ; petals generally clawed. Petals entire. I. Cleome. Petals laciniate. 2. Cr
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