CORONOPUS Ruellii.
Common Wart-cress, or Swine’s-cress.
Te t r a d y n a m ia suicuiosa.
Gen. Char. Pouch kidneyshaped, compressed, rugged,
not separating into valves. Seeds 1 in each cell.
Spec. Char. Pouch undivided, crested with little sharp
points. Style prominent. Flowers not many in a
cluster.
Syn. Coronopus Ruellii. Gcertn. vt 2. 293. t. 142. f 5.
Sm. FI. Brit. 690. Relh. 254. Ger. cm. 427.
Cochlearia Coronopus. Linn. Sp. PI. 904. Huds. 284.
With. 574. Hull. 144. Sibth. 200. Abbot. 141.
Mart. Rust. t. 92.
Nasturtium supinum, capsulis verrucosis. Rail Syn. 304.
COMMON in waste places by road sides, on banks, and
among rubbish, flowering from June to September.
Root annual. Stems quite prostrate, depressed, branch'd,
leafy, round, smooth. Leaves alternate, pinnatifid, the segments
for the most part half pinnatifid, or pectinate, at their
fore side. Clusters of flowers opposite to the leaves, corymbose,
sessile, short, elongated as the fruit swells. Flowers
very small, white. Pouch kidneyshaped, compressed, transversely
rugged, its plaits extended into little marginal teeth,
which form a sort of crest, its summit not divided, but
crowned with the little short pyramidal style. Each cell contains
a rather large brown seed. The cells are leathery, and
never split into valves. The whole herb is somewhat glaucous,
slightly succulent, with an unpleasant mustard-like acrid
flavour.
No doubt can arise as to the certainty of this genus. We
have some exotic species. The only remaining British one is
represented in v. 4. t. 248, under its Linnsean name of Lepi-
dium didymum, and is the Coronopus didyma, FI. Brit. 691.