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32 almost entire, toothed or sinuate-lobed. Flowers small, yellow, in lax racemes. Pedicels slender, ebracteate. Petals about equalling the sepals. Pods oblong, turgid, slightly curved when ripe, $1⁄6$–$1⁄4$ in. long. Seeds numerous, crowded, in 2 series.—''Hook. f. Handb. N.Z. Fl. 10; Kirk, Students Fl.'' 25. N. terrestre, ''R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew.'' iv. 110; ''Hook. f. Fl. Nov. Zel.'' i. 14. N. semipinnatifidum, ''Hook. Journ. Bot.'' i. 246. N. sylvestre, ''A. Rich. Fl. Nouv. Zel. 309, (non R. Br.); A. Cunn. Precur. n. 625; Raoul, Choix de Plantes,'' 47.

Annual or perennial often flaccid herbs, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Leaves entire or more frequently pinnately divided. Flowers white or purplish. Sepals equal at the base. Petals clawed. Stigma simple or 2-lobed. Pod long, narrow-linear, compressed; valves usually flat, openmg elastically; septum membranous, transparent. Seeds numerous, flattened, in one series; cotyledons accumbent.

1. C. hirsuta, ''Linn. Sp. Plant.'' 655.—A very variable glabrous or slightly hairy annual or perennial herb, usually much branched from the base. Stems erect or decumbent, occasionally as much as