A Handbook of Systematic Botany, by Dr. E Warming

Order 8. Berberidaceæ (Barberries).—The regular, ☿, hypogynous flowers are dimerous or trimerous and have regularly alternating whorls of free sepals, petals, and stamens and 1 unilocular carpel; the corolla and stamens have each 2 whorls, the calyx at least 2. The anthers open, as in Lauraceæ, by (2) valves, but are always introrse (Fig. 384). The pistil has a large, disc-like, almost sessile stigma (Fig. 385), and in the ovary several erect ovules are placed close to the base of the ventral suture. The fruit is most frequently a berry. Seeds endospermous.—Shrubs or herbs with scattered, most frequently compound leaves (without stipules), and racemose inflorescences.—They show a relationship to the Lauraceæ in the number of the parts of the flower and the dehiscence of the anthers.

Berberis is a shrub; it has sepals 3 + 3, petals 3 + 3, stamens 3 + 3 (Fig. 384). The petals (honey-leaves) bear internally at the base 2 darkish-yellow nectaries. The filaments are sensitive at the base, and suddenly bend inwards if touched at that spot (Fig. 385). The racemes often have a terminal, 5-merous flower; they are borne on dwarf-branches. The leaves on the long-branches develope into thorns, but the buds in their axils, in the same year as themselves, develope as the short-branches with simple foliage-leaves, articulated at the base, from which fact some authorities have considered that the leaf is compound with a single, terminal leaflet.—Mahonia has imparipinnate leaves. The flower has 3 whorls of sepals. Otherwise as in Berberis.—Epimedium; herbs with spurred petals; the flowers dimerous; 4–5 whorls of sepals, 2 of petals and stamens. Fruit a capsule. Leontice, fruit dry. The anthers of Podophyllum dehisce longitudinally.—Nandina. Aceranthus.

100 species; North temp., especially Asia: fossils in Tertiary. Berberis vulgaris is a native of Europe. This and other species, together with Mahonia aquifolium (N. Am.), Epimedium alpinum, etc., are cultivated as ornamental plants. Several have a yellow colouring matter in the root and stem. Officinal: the rhizome of Podophyllum peltatum (from N. Am.) yields podophyllin.

Order 9. Menispermaceæ. This order has derived its name from the more or less crescent-like fruits and seeds. Diœcious. The flowers are 2–3-merous, most frequently as in Berberis (S3 + 3, P3 + 3, A3 + 3), with the difference that there are 3 free carpels, each with 1 ovule; in some genera, however, the number is different. Stamens often united into a bundle (as in Myristica); anthers dehiscing longitudinally; fruit a drupe.—The plants (with herbaceous or woody stems) belonging to this order are nearly all twining or climbing plants, and have scattered, palmate or peltate, sometimes lobed leaves without stipules. Structure of stem anomalous. Cocculus, Menispermum, Cissampelos, Anamirta.

150 species; Tropical; very rich in bitter and poisonous properties. Officinal: Calumba-root from Jateorhiza columba (E. Africa). The following are cultivated as ornamental plants:—Menispermum canadense (N. Am.) and M. dahuricum (Asia). The fruits of Anamirta cocculus (E. Ind.) are very poisonous (“Grains-of-Paradise”; the poisonous matter is picrotoxine).

Order 10. Lardizabalaceæ. This order, by the free, apocarpous carpels, belongs to a more primitive type, and by the united stamens to a more developed one. Akebia; Holbœllia; principally climbing or twining shrubs. About 7 species in S.E. Asia and S. Am.

Order 11. Lauraceæ (True Laurels). Trees or shrubs; the leaves, always without stipules, are simple, most frequently scattered, lanceolate or elliptical, entire, penninerved, finely reticulate (except Cinnamomum with 3–5-veined leaf), leathery and evergreen (except, e.g. Cinnamomum); they are frequently studded with clear glands containing volatile oil. The flowers are borne in panicles and are small and of a greenish or whitish colour. They are regular, perigynous, with most frequently a bowl or cup-shaped receptacle (Fig. 386), usually ☿, and trimerous (rarely dimerous) through all (most frequently 6–7) whorls; viz. most frequently, perianth 2 whorls, stamens 3–4 and carpels 1 (P3 + 3, A3 + 3 + 3 + 3, G3) in regular alternation (Fig. 387). Each of the 2 or 4 loculi of the anthers open by an upwardly directed valve (Fig. 386); of the stamens, the 2 outermost whorls are generally introrse, the others extrorse, or 1–3 whorls are developed as staminodes (Fig. 387 g). The gynœceum has 1 loculus with 1 style and 1 pendulous ovule (Fig. 386), and may be considered as formed of 3 carpels. The fruit is a berry (Fig. 388) or drupe, which often is surrounded at its base by the persistent receptacle (as an acorn by its cupule), which becomes fleshy and sometimes coloured during the ripening of the fruit. The embryo has 2 thick cotyledons, but no endosperm (Fig. 388).

The Lauraceæ present affinities with the Polygonaceæ, in which there is found perigyny, as well as a similar number of parts in the flower and a similar gynœceum, but with erect and orthotropous ovule. From their general characters they should be classed among the Polycarpicæ, but stand, however, isolated by the syncarpous gynœceum, if it is in reality formed by 3 carpels and not by 1 only. Hernandia, which has epigynous monœcious flowers, deviates most.—Cassytha is a Cuscuta-like, herbaceous, slightly green parasite with twining, almost leafless stems. The flower however agrees with the diagram in Fig. 387. Some Lauraceæ have curved veins or palminerved and lobed leaves (often together with entire ones) e.g. Sassafras.

There are 1000 species; especially in the forests of tropical S. America and Asia, of which they form the principal part. Only Laurus nobilis is found in Europe, and there is little doubt that its proper home is in Western Asia. They are rare in Africa.—On account of the volatile oil found in all parts of the plant, they are used as spices, e.g. the false Cinnamon-tree (Dicypellium caryophyllatum, in the Brazils). The OFFICINAL ones are—the Cinnamon-tree (Cinnamomum zeylanicum from Ceylon, E. India, Eastern Asia), which is also cultivated; the Camphor-tree (Cinnamomum camphora, Eastern Asia). The Laurel-tree (Laurus nobilis, Mediterranean), the berries and leaves of which give laurel oil, is medicinal.—Scented wood for furniture, etc., is obtained from Sassafras officinalis (from N. Am.). The wood from its roots is officinal. Pichurim “beans” are the large cotyledons of Nectandra pichury, whilst the famous “Greenheart” wood of Demarara is the wood of Nectandra rodiæi. The pulp and seeds contain a fatty oil. The pear-like fruit of Persea gratissima (Mexico, also cultivated) is very delicious. Lindera benzoin is a garden shrub; Laurus nobilis likewise.

Order 12. Myristicaceæ (Nutmegs). In this order there is only 1 genus, Myristica. Trees or shrubs. The leaves agree closely with those of the Lauraceæ, with which this order has many points in common. The majority of the species are aromatic, having in their vegetative parts pellucid glands with volatile oils. The flowers are regular, diœcious, trimerous, and have a single gamophyllous (cupular or campanulate) 3-toothed, fleshy perianth. In the ♂-flowers the anthers vary in number (3–15), and they are extrorse and borne on a centrally-placed column; in the ♀-flower the gynœceum is unilocular, unicarpellary, with 1 ovule. The FRUIT (Fig. 389) has the form of a pear; it is a fleshy, yellow capsule, which opens along the ventral and dorsal sutures, exposing the large seed. This seed has a large, red, irregularly branched aril—the so-called “mace”; the “nutmeg,” on the other hand, is the seed itself with the inner thin portion of the testa, which has pushed its way irregularly into the endosperm, and causes the marbled appearance of the cut seed (Fig. 390); the external, dark brown, hard, and brittle part of the seed-shell is however removed. Mace and nutmeg contain volatile and fatty oils in abundance.—80 species. Tropical. The majority are used on account of their aromatic seeds and aril, the most important being M. fragrans (moschata), from the Moluccas. This is cultivated in special plantations, not only in its native home, but in other tropical countries also. Nutmegs were known as commodities in Europe in very ancient times (e.g. by the Romans), but it was not until the year 1500 that the tree itself was known. The seed is OFFICINAL.

Family 10. Rhœadinæ.

The plants belonging to this family are almost exclusively herbaceous, with scattered, exstipulate leaves. The flowers are eucyclic di- or tetramerous, with the calyx and corolla deciduous, hypogynous, ☿, regular, the gynœceum with 2–several carpels (generally 2, transversely placed) (Figs. 391, 392, 393, 397). The ovary is unilocular with parietal placentæ, but in Cruciferæ and a few others it becomes bilocular by the development of a false, membranous wall between the placentæ. The stigmas in the majority of cases are commissural, i.e. they stand above the placentæ, and not above the dorsal line of the carpels. The fruit is nearly always a capsule, which opens by the middle portions of the carpels detaching themselves as valves, bearing no seed, whilst the placentæ persist as the seed-bearing frame. Endosperm is found in Papaveraceæ and Fumariaceæ, but is absent in Cruciferæ and Capparidaceæ.—This family through the Papaveraceæ is related to the Polycarpicæ (the Nymphæaceæ), through the Capparidaceæ to the Resedaceæ in the next family.

Exceptions to the above are: Eschscholtzia, Subularia (Fig. 403) and a few Capparidaceæ, in which perigynous flowers are found. A few Papaveraceæ and Fumariaceæ have trimerous flowers. In Fumaria and certain Cruciferæ, the fruit is a nut. The Fumariaceæ have zygomorphic flowers. Trees and shrubs are almost entirely confined to the Capparidaceæ, in which order stipules also are found.

Order 1. Papaveraceæ (Poppies). Herbaceous plants with stiff hairs and latex; flowers regular (Fig. 391) with generally 2 (-3) sepals (which fall off as the flower opens), 2 + 2 petals (imbricate and crumpled in the bud) without spur, numerous stamens in several alternating whorls (generally a multiple of 2); carpels 2–several, united into a unilocular gynœceum. Trimerous flowers also occur. Capsule with very numerous seeds on the parietal placentæ; embryo small, with large, oleaginous endosperm (Fig. 392).—The leaves have no stipules and are generally pinnately lobed.

Papaver (Poppy) has large, solitary, terminal flowers; petals firmly and irregularly folded in æstivation; gynœceum formed by many (4–15) carpels; stigmas velvety, sessile and stellate (the rays stand above the placentæ) (Fig. 391 B). The edges of the carpels project deeply into the ovary, but do not meet in the centre, so that it remains unilocular. The capsule opens by pores placed close beneath the stigma, and formed of small valves alternating with the placentæ and the rays of the stigma (Fig. 391). P. dubium, P. argemone, P. rhœas.—Chelidonium (Greater Celandine) has yellow latex, flowers in umbellate cymes (the terminal, central flower opening first) and only 2 carpels; the fruit resembles the siliqua of the Cruciferæ in having two barren valves, which are detached from the base upwards, and a seed-bearing frame, but there is no partition wall formed between the placentæ. Ch. majus.—The majority of the other genera have, like Chelidonium, 2 carpels (lateral and alternating with the sepals: Fig. 391 A) and siliqua-like fruit, thus: Eschscholtzia (perigynous) with a linear, stigma-bearing prolongation extending as far above the placentæ as above the dorsal suture of the carpels; Glaucium (Horn-Poppy); G. luteum, whose extremely long, thin capsule differs from that of Chelidonium by the formation, during ripening, of a thick, spongy (false) replum, which persists when the valves are detached; Sanguinaria with red latex, the 2 petals divided into 8–12 small petals (perhaps by dédoublement); Macleya and Bocconia (1-seeded capsule) with 2 sepals and no petals.—Trimerous flowers are found in Argemone and Platystemon (with a curious fruit, carpels free, and transversely divided and constricted into joints which separate as nut-like portions).—Meconopsis.—Hypecoum (Fig. 393 C) has tri-lobed and three cleft petals, 4 free stamens with 4-locular anthers and a jointed siliqua; it presents a transitional form to the Fumariaceæ, with which order it is sometimes included.

Pollination. Papaver and Chelidonium have no honey, and are without doubt only visited by insects for the sake of the pollen. The anthers and stigmas mature about the same time.—There are 80 species; especially from warm climates. Officinal: Papaver somniferum (Opium-Poppy); the latex of its unripe capsules is obtained by incisions, and dried (opium); it contains many alkaloids: morphine, papaverine, narcotine, thebaine, etc. The oleaginous seeds are also used in the manufacture of oil. Its home is in the East, where it is extensively cultivated. The petals of the Corn-poppy (P. rhœas) are also officinal. Several species are cultivated as ornamental plants.

Order 2. Fumariacæ (Fumitories). This order differs from the closely allied Papaveraceæ in the absence of latex, a poorer flower, generally transversely zygomorphic (Fig. 393 B), in which case one or both of the outer lateral petals are gibbous, or prolonged into a spur; the stamens are especially anomalous. Sepals 2, caducous; petals 2 + 2; stamens 2, tripartite; each lateral anther is bilocular (Figs. 393 A, B; 395); gynœceum bicarpellate. The fruit is a nut or siliqua-like capsule. Endosperm.—Herbs with scattered, repeatedly pinnately-divided leaves without stipules, generally quite glabrous and glaucous; the flowers are arranged in racemes with subtending bracts, but the bracteoles are sometimes suppressed.

Dicentra (syn. Dielytra) and Adlumia have a doubly symmetrical flower, with a spur or gibbous swelling at the base of each of the laterally-placed petals (Figs. 393 A, 394). Corydalis has a zygomorphic flower, only one of the lateral petals having a spur, and consequently there is only one nectary at the base of the bundle of stamens, which stands right in front of the spur (Fig. 393 B, 395, 396). The fruit is a many-seeded siliqua-like capsule. A peculiarity of the flower is that the plane of symmetry passes transversely through the flowers, whilst in nearly all other zygomorphic flowers it lies in the median line. Moreover, the flower is turned, so that the plane of symmetry ultimately becomes nearly vertical, and the spur is directed backwards.—Many species have subterranean tubers; in these the embryo germinates with one cotyledon, which is lanceolate and resembles a foliage-leaf. The tuber is in some the swollen hypocotyl (C. cava), in others a swollen root (C. fabacea, etc.), which grows down through the precisely similar swollen root of the mother-plant. The sub-genus Ceratocapnos has dimorphic fruits (nuts and capsules) in the same raceme. Fumaria differs from Corydalis only by its almost drupaceous, one-seeded nut (Fig. 395).

The structure of the flower. Hypecoum among the Papaveraceæ is the connecting link with the Fumariaceæ. The diagram (Fig. 393 C) corresponds both in number and in the relative position of its members with that of most of the other Papaveraceæ (Fig. 391), except that there are only four stamens (with extrorse anthers). In Dicentra (Fig. 393 A), the two central (uppermost) stamens are absent, but each of the two lateral ones are divided into three filaments, of which the central one bears a four-locular anther, and each of the others a two-locular (half) anther. Corydalis and Fumaria stand alone in the symmetry of the flower, differing from Dicentra in having only one of the lateral petals (Fig. 393 B, sp) prolonged into a spur, while in Dicentra both the petals are spurred. This structure has been interpreted in various ways. According to Asa Gray the median stamens are absent in the last-named genera, and the lateral ones are split in a similar manner to the petals of Hypecoum. Another, and no doubt the most reasonable theory (adduced by De Candolle), is: that two median stamens are split, the two parts move laterally, each to their respective sides and become united with the two lateral stamens; this affords a natural explanation of the two half-anthers, and establishes a close relationship to the Cruciferæ. A third interpretation, held by Eichler and others, is as follows: the median stamens are always wanting; when they appear to be present, as in Hypecoum, it is due to the fact that the side portions of the lateral stamens approach each other (as interpetiolar stipules) and coalesce into an apparently single stamen.

130 species; mostly from the northern temperatures.

Pollination. Fumaria, with its inconspicuous flowers, has to a great extent to resort to self-pollination. Corydalis, on the other hand, is dependent on cross-pollination; C. cava is even absolutely sterile with its own pollen. Corydalis is pollinated by insects with long probosces (humble-bees, bees), which are able to reach the honey secreted in the spur; as they alight on the flowers they press the exterior petals on one side (Fig. 396 e), so that the stigma, surrounded by the anthers, projects forward; the proboscis is introduced in the direction of the arrow in the figure, and during this act the under-surface of the insect is covered with pollen, which is transferred by similar movements to the stigma of another (older) flower.—Ornamental plants; Dicentra (spectabilis and eximia), Adlumia, Corydalis.

Order 3. Cruciferæ (Crucifers). The flowers are regular, ☿; sepals 4, free (2 + 2), deciduous; petals 4, free, deciduous, unguiculate, placed diagonally in one whorl, and alternating with the sepals; stamens 6; the 2 outer are short, the 4 inner (in reality the two median split to the base) longer, placed in pairs (tetradynamia of Linnæus); gynœceum syncarpous formed by 2 (as in the previous order, lateral) carpels, with 2 parietal placentæ, but divided into two loculi by a spurious membranous dissepiment (replum) (Fig. 397). Style single, with a capitate, usually two-lobed stigma, generally commisural, that is, placed above the parietal placentæ (Fig. 397), but it may also be placed above the dorsal suture, or remain undivided. Ovules curved. The fruit is generally a bivalvular siliqua (Fig. 398 B, C), the valves separating from below upwards, and leaving the placentæ attached to the replum; other forms of fruits are described below. The oily seeds have no endosperm (endosperm is present in the two previous orders); the embryo is curved (Figs. 398 E, F; 399, 400).—In general they are herbaceous plants, without latex, with scattered, penninerved leaves, without stipules; the inflorescence is very characteristic, namely, a raceme with the flowers aggregated together at the time of flowering into a corymb, and destitute of both bracts and bracteoles.

Many are biennial, forming in the first year a close leaf-rosette. By cultivation the tap-root can readily be induced to swell out into the form of a tuber (Turnips, Swedes, etc.). Stipules are found indicated by small glands on the very young leaves; in Cochlearia armoracia they are fairly large triangular scales. Stellate hairs often occur. Floral-leaves are occasionally developed. Terminal flowers are never found in the inflorescences. Iberis and Teesdalia have zygomorphic flowers. Subularia (Fig. 403) is perigynous. The 2 external sepals (Fig. 397) stand in the median plane; it may therefore be supposed that there are two bracteoles outside these which, however, are suppressed, and can only in a few instances be traced in the young flower; the two lateral sepals are often gibbous at the base, and serve as reservoirs for the nectar secreted by the glands placed above them; they correspond in position to the external petals of the Fumariaceæ. The 4 petals which follow next arise simultaneously, and alternate with the 4 sepals; if it could be shown that these are merely 2 median petals, which have been deeply cleft and the two parts separated from each other and displaced to the diagonal position, there would be a perfect correspondence with the Fumariaceous flower; then the petals would be followed in regular alternation by the 2 lateral small stamens, the 2 median long stamens, which it has been proved are split into 4 and placed in couples, and the 2 laterally-placed carpels,—in all 6 dimerous whorls. But the formation of the corolla by the splitting of 2 petals does not agree with the development of the flower or bear comparison, and hence the only fact in favour of this theory is the otherwise prevailing correspondence with the Fumariaceæ. Yet it may be observed that in special cases each pair of long stamens clearly enough arises from one protuberance and even later on may be considerably united or entirely undivided (e.g. Vella); in other instances they are quite distinct from the beginning, and it is possible that this latter condition has become constant in the corolla. Lepidium ruderale and others have no corolla. Senebiera didyma has only 2 median stamens. Megacarpæa has several stamens, no doubt by dédoublement, as in Capparidaceæ.—The number of carpels may also be abnormally increased; Tetrapoma barbareifolium has normally 4 carpels with an equal number of placentæ and repla. It is supposed to be a variety of Nasturtium palustre.—The 2–4–8–10 greenish glands, which are found at the base of the stamens, are nectaries, morphologically emergences, and not rudimentary stamens. The forms of fruits are of great systematic significance, see the genera. In some species dimorphic fruits are present, e.g. Cardamine chenopodiifolia which has both ordinary Cardamine-siliquas and 1-seeded siliculas.

The curved embryo appears in five forms, which have systematic importance: 1. To the Pleurorhizæ belong those genera whose radicle (with the hypocotyl) lies bent upwards along the edge of the flat cotyledons (Fig. 399); to this group belong Cardamine, Nasturtium, Cheiranthus, Matthiola, Cochlearia, Draba, Iberis, Thlaspi, etc.; diagrammatic transverse section: ◯=.—2. To Notorhizæ belong those whose radicle lies in an upward direction along the back of one of the flat cotyledons (Figs. 400, 413); e.g. Hesperis, Sisymbrium, Lepidium, Capsella, Camelina: ◯‖.—3. Orthoploceæ differ from the Notorhizeæ in having the cotyledons folded (not flat) (Fig. 398 E, F); to this belong Brassica, Sinapis, Raphanus, Crambe, etc.: ◯>>.—4. Spirolobeæ: the radicle lies as in the Notorhizæ, but the cotyledons are so rolled together that a transverse section of the seed cuts them twice; Bunias: ◯‖‖.—5. Diplecolobeæ: the cotyledons are folded forward and backward so that a transverse section cuts them several times; Subularia, Senebiera: ◯‖‖‖.

On germination the cotyledons appear above the ground as green leaves; in the Orthoploceæ they are bilobed, in the Lepidium-species divided.

1. Silicula, broad replum (Siliculosæ latiseptæ), valves flat or slightly vaulted, and the replum extends through the greatest width of the silicula (Fig. 404). The seeds are situated in two rows.

◯=: Cochlearia (Horse-radish): the siliqua is nearly spheroid; glabrous herbs, generally with fleshy, stalked leaves, and white flowers.—Draba has an oblong, lanceolate, somewhat compressed silicula; herbs with small rosettes of leaves, most frequently with stellate and long-stalked racemes.—Alyssum and Berteroa are whitish, on account of the stellate hairs; they have a more compressed and round or elliptical silicula. Vesicaria; Aubrietia. Lunaria (Honesty, Fig. 401): very broad and flat silicula with long stalk (the receptacle as in Capparidaceæ).

◯‖: Camelina (Gold-of-pleasure) has a spheroid, pear-shaped siliqua with a small rim passing right round (Fig. 402). Subularia (Awlwort), an aquatic plant with perigynous flower (Fig. 403) and folded cotyledons.

2. Silicula, narrow replum (Siliculosæ angustiseptæ), i.e. the replum is much shorter than the arched, more or less boat-shaped valves (Figs. 405, 406, 407).

◯=: Thlaspi (Penny-Cress) has a flat, almost circular silicula, emarginate or cordate, with a well-developed wing round the edge (Fig. 406). Iberis and Teesdalia: the racemes during flowering are especially corymbose, and the most external petals of the outer flowers project radially and are much larger than the other two (the flower is zygomorphic).—Biscutella, Megacarpæa.

◯‖: Capsella (Shepherd’s-Purse) has a wingless, obcordate or triangular silicula (Fig. 407). Lepidium (Pepperwort) has a few–(2–4) seeded, slightly winged, oval silicula. Senebiera has a silicula splitting longitudinally into two nut-like portions; its cotyledons are folded.—Anastatica hierochuntica (“Rose of Jericho”) is an annual, silicula-fruited, desert plant (Arabia, Syria, N. Africa). After the flowering all its then leafless branches bend together upwards, forming a kind of ball; this spreads out again on coming in contact with water, and the fruits then disseminate their seeds, which germinate very quickly, often in the fruit.

3. Siliqua (Siliquosæ). The fruit is a true siliqua, several times longer than broad. The seeds in most are borne apparently in one row.

◯>>: Brassica (Cabbage). The seeds are placed apparently in one row in each loculus (Fig. 398 C); the style is long and round; the valves have only 1 strong, longitudinal rib.—Melanosinapis (M. nigra, Black-mustard); the style is compressed, two-edged; the valves of the siliqua are one ribbed.—Sinapis (Mustard); quadrangular or flat style (in which in most cases there is a seed) and 3–5 strong, longitudinal ribs on the valves.—Eruca differs from Brassica by the shorter siliqua, broad, sword-like “beak” and seeds in two rows.

◯= (Fig. 399): Cardamine (Bitter Cress) has a long, linear siliqua, with flat, unribbed, elastic valves. The leaves are most frequently pinnatifid or pinnate. C. pratensis reproduces by buds formed in the axils of the leaves.—Arabis (Rock Cress); Matthiola (Stock); Cheiranthus cheiri (Wallflower); Barbarea (Winter Cress) (double-edged, quadrangular siliqua); Nasturtium (N. officinale, Water-cress); the siliqua of the latter genus is in some species short, in others long.

◯‖ (Fig.400): Sisymbrium (Hedge Mustard) the valves of the siliqua are 3-ribbed.—Erysimum; Hesperis; Schizopetalum (with fimbriate petals).

4. Fruit jointed (Lomentaceæ). The fruit is divided by transverse walls into as many spaces as there are seeds, and dehisces at maturity, generally transversely, into a corresponding number of nut-like joints (“articulate-siliqua.”)

◯=: Crambe (Kale, Fig. 408). The fruit has only 2 joints. The lower one resembles a short, thick stalk, and is barren, the upper one is spherical, and has 1 seed.—Cakile (C. maritima, Sea-kale); the lower node is triangular, 1-locular, the upper one more ensiform, 1-locular (Fig. 409).

◯>>: Raphanus has a long siliqua, which, in the garden Radish (R. sativus), is spongy and slightly abstricted (Fig. 411), but neither opens nor divides transversely (a kind of dry berry), and which in the Wild Radish (R. raphanistrum) (Fig. 410) is abstricted in the form of a string of pearls, and separates into many joints. R. sativus; the “Radish” is formed by the hypocotyl, after the bursting of its external, cortical portions (of which there are generally two patches at the top of the Radish).

5. Siliqua indehiscent (Nucumentaceæ). The fruit is a short, unjointed, unilocular and 1-seeded nut, and the fruit-stalks are often long, slender, and drooping. (Sometimes a thin endosperm is present).—Isatis (Woad) has most frequently an oblong, small-winged nut; ◯‖ (Figs. 412, 413).—Bunias; Neslia.

Family 10. Rhœadinæ.