40. Cruciferae.—Mustard Family.

Herbs with pungent, watery juice; sepals and petals 4 each, cruciform; stamens 6, tetradynamous; capsule usually spuriously 2-celled; fruit a silique or silicle.

A Manual of Organic Materia Medica and Pharmacognosy, 1917, was written by Lucius E. Sayre, B.S. Ph. M.