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L E P I DI UM didymuiii*
Procumbent Pepper-wort*,
T E T R A D t N A M I A Siliculofa.
Gen. Char. Pouch notched, with many feeds: valves
keeled, but not margined : partition contrary to
them.
Spec. Char. Stem procumbent, hairy. Leaves
pinnatifid. Fruit didymous.
Syn. Lepidium didymum. Linn. Mant. 92. DickJ.
Dr. Plants 11. With. Bot.Arr. 671.
L . anglicum. Hudf. FI. An. 280.
G a t h e r e d by John Adams, Efq. at Dale, z village near
the entrance of Milford Haven. Mr. Hudfon mentions this
fpecies (which efcaped Ray and Dillenius) as a native of
Devonfhire and Cornwall among rubbilh. It is an annual,
flowering in July, and is in a manner naturalized in Chelfea
garden. Our figure, however, has been drawn from real wild
fpecimens, like all the reft in this work when we do not ex-
prefsly mention the contrary; for we do not approve of imposing
cultivated fpecimens upon the public for wild ones, which
“ in fimilar works (according to Mr. Curtis’s juft obfervation,
Bot. Mag. 154.) every plant is expefted to be.”
The roots of Lepidium didymum are fmall and fibrous. Stems
procumbent (which Linnaeus, having it only in a dried ftate,
did not know), roundifh, pilofe, alternately branched, leafy.
Leaves alternate, fmooth, pinnatifid, the lobes notched, efpe*
cially on the forefide. Spikes generally oppofite to the leaves,
many-flowered, and foon lengthened out into racemi. Flowers
very fmall, with 2 or 4 Stamina, fcarcely more. Pouch very
diftinftly two-lobed, rugged, and much refembling that of Coch-
learia Goronopus, to which this plant is very nearly related as to
generic character ; and indeed Linnxus fays, it is an interme*
diate fpecies between the two genera. Mant. 92.