Mustard family
Cruciferae
Lob-you-lair’i-a. A small genus of about 5 species of Mediterranean herbs, related to Alyssum .
Description
Leaves alternate, with unbroken margin. Flowers white, with 4 petals and 4 sepals. Stamens 6.
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Mustard family
Cruciferae
Brass’i-ka. An important genus of temperate Old World annual or biennial herbs, containing all the vegetables of the cabbage tribe, including mustard, kale, rape, and turnip. Some are pernicious weeds.
Description
They have mostly smooth, often bluish-green, water-shedding leaves. Flowers yellow or white, with 4 petals, and in terminal racemes.
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Mustard family
Cruciferae
Mat-thy’o-la. A genus containing 50 species of Old World annuals, perennials, or subshrubs, only 2 species commonly in cultivation.
Description
Leaves alternate, without marginal teeth, or way or cut into segments. Flowers in terminal racemes, with 4 long-clawed petals.
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Mustard family
Cruciferae
Loo-nay’ri-a. Two Eurasian herbs cultivated for the satiny, parchmentlike divisions of their pods, used in dried bouquets.
Description
Leaves usually alternate, ovalish, and stalked. Flowers violet-purple or white, in a showy terminal raceme. Petals 4, long-clawed.
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Mustard family
Cruciferae
Ky-ran’thus. Perhaps a dozen perennial herbs, scattered from Madeira to the Himalayas, one the widely cultivated Wallflower.
Description
Leaves narrow with few marginal teeth. Flowers with 4-clawed petals, yellow or orange-brown, fragrant.
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Mustard family
Cruciferae
Mal-col’mi-a. A small genus of low, grayish herbs.
Description
Stems branching profusely, making a compact plant. Leaves simple, alternate, slightly cut. Flowers white, purple, or reddish, in loose clusters at end of branches, the petals 4, long and narrow.
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Mustard family
Cruciferae
Eye-on-op-sid’i-um. A few species of annual herbs, related to Aethionema and Iberis .
Description
Leaves basal, in rosettes, nearly round. Inflorescence leafy at the base; 4 sepals and 4 petals.
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Mustard family
Cruciferae
Eye-beer’is. About 30 species of garden plants, mostly from the Mediterranean region.
Description
Leaves divided or undivided, alternate. Flowers in flat-topped or finger-shaped clusters, the 4 petals separate. Sometimes the outer flowers of a cluster are sterile.
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Mustard family
Cruciferae
Bar-ba-ree’a. The winter cresses are weedy herbs, used as substitutes for watercress.
Description
Leaves divided or compound. Small yellow flowers in terminal racemes.
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Mustard family
Cruciferae
E-riss’i-mum. A large genus of north temperate zone herbs, closely related to the Wallflower ( Cheiranthus ), differing only in technical characters. Commonly called blister-cresses.
Description
Somewhat resembling stocks, with yellow, lilac, or blue flowers, usually in terminal racemes that lengthen considerably as the long, 4-sided, usually beaked pods ripen.
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