. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. 368 THE KINDS OF PLANTS A. maritimum, Linn. Sweet alyssum of the gardens (from Europe). Fig. 519. Annual, producing a profusion of small white, fragrant flowers. There are many cultivated forms. 9. CAPSELLA. Shepherd's Ptjrse. Low short-lived annuals, with very small white flowers in racemes: pod obcordate or inversely triangular, the partition run- ning across the narrow diameter, containing several seeds. C. Bursa-pastoris, Medic. Common shepherd's purse. Fig. 286. One of the commonest lit
. Botany for secondary schools; a guide to the knowledge of the vegetation of the neighborhood. Plants. 368 THE KINDS OF PLANTS A. maritimum, Linn. Sweet alyssum of the gardens (from Europe). Fig. 519. Annual, producing a profusion of small white, fragrant flowers. There are many cultivated forms. 9. CAPSELLA. Shepherd's Ptjrse. Low short-lived annuals, with very small white flowers in racemes: pod obcordate or inversely triangular, the partition run- ning across the narrow diameter, containing several seeds. C. Bursa-pastoris, Medic. Common shepherd's purse. Fig. 286. One of the commonest little weeds: root-leaves pinnatifid or strong-toothed, in a rosette, the stem-leaves arrow-shaped. LEPIDIUM. Pepper-grass. Small stifnsh annuals (or biennials), which shed their ,, leaves late in the season: flowers very small, white or A/J^y? V^ST^^ greenish, in elongating racemes: pod small and roundish, the partition running across the narrow diameter. Plant peppery to the taste. 519. Alyssum ^ yirginicum, Linn. Common pepper-grass. About 1 ft. high, much branched, glabrous: leaves linear to lanceolate, tapering to the base, the lower mostly pinnatifid. Common weed; often fed to canary birds. 11. IBERIS. Candytuft. Fig. 192. Herbs with white, or purple flowers in flat or elongated clusters; 2 outer petals larger than 2 inner: silicles flattened, truncate, cells 1-seeded. Cul- tivated. I. umbellata, 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. amara, Linn. Annual: leaves lanceolate, toothed toward apex: flowers white. The common white-flowered candytuft, in many forms (including the garden /. coronaria). 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, indehiscent, constricted between the seeds, pith
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