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T U R R I T I S glabra»
Smooth Tower-'MuJlard.
TETRADYNAM1A Siliquefa.
Gen. Char. Pod very long, ftraight, fomewhat angular.
Cal. clofed, ereCt. Cor. eredl.
Spec. Char. Radical leaves toothed, rough ; the reft
entire, embracing the ftem, fmooth.
Syn. Turritis glabra; Linn. Sp. PI. 930. Srn. FI.
. 4 Brit. 713. Hudf. 291. With. 588. Hull. 148.
Sihth. 204. Curt. Lond.fafc, 4. t. 47.
Turritis. Rail Syn. 293.
G A T H E R E D by A. B. Lambert Efq. and Mr. Groultnear
Richmond. It loves a dry gravelly foil, and occurs in various
parts of Norfolk, flowering in May and June.
This is a much taller plant than the T. hirfuta figured in our
9th vol. t. 587. The root is annual. The ftraight wand-like
ftem is two feet or more in height, round, leafy, at firft Ample,
but it produces a few lateral upright flowering-branches after
the main fpike of feeds is full grown. Radical leaves lanceolate,
broadly toothed and almoft finuated, rough on both fides with
rigid, forked or Ample, hairs : ftem-leaves numerous, alternate,
feflile, upright, arrow-fhaped, entire, fmooth, glaucous
(as is the whole herb more or lefs), clafping the ftem at their
bafe. Flowers numerous, fmall, in a corymbus which foon
becomes a fpike. Petals pale fulphur-coloured, entire. Pods
long, linear, flat, burfting at their bafe, and containing a great
number of feeds.
The genus of Turritis, as I have ventured to hint in the
Flora Britannica, is fcarcely to be diftinguifhed from Arahis
either by its natural habit or technical characters.