52 MUSTARD FAMILY. 



12. DENTARIA. Pods, &c. as in the preceding. Seed-stalks broad and flat 



Stem 2-3-leaved in the middle, i >vr, springing from a horizontal 



1 or irregular lle-hy r ( ,t-tu<-k. 



13. LUNARIA. Pods oval or oblmi;.', large ;ind very fiat, stalked above the calyx. 



Seeds winded, 2-rowed in cadi cell. Flowers pretty large, purple. 

 li. I>KAl'iA. pcid< round-oval, !at. Seeds wingless, 2-rowed in 



each cell. Flowers small, white in the common species. 



-w. *-+ +* +* Pod thort, jlattith parallel to the brnml jmr/ition. Flowers yellow,, small. 

 15. CAMELINA. Pods turgid, obovate or pcur->hapeil. 



++++++ ++ ++ Pod short, very much 'flattened inntmrif to the narrow partition ; the 

 calces thtrcj'on </ttji/y OOOi-shaped, Fl<m'<-r* irhitt, fiHitll. 



76. CAPSELLA. Pods obovate-trianguhir, or triangular with a notch at the top. 

 * * Seeds or the ovules single or sometimes 2 in each cdl. Pods short andjlat. 

 H- Corolla irregular, the petals being very unequal. 



17- IBKHIS. Flowers in short and flat-topped clusters, white or purple ; the two 

 petals on the outer side of the flower much larger than the others. Pods 

 scale-shaped, roundish or ovate, much flattened contrary to the very narrow 

 partition, bitched at the wing-margined top. 



- +- Corolla regular, small. 



18. LEPIDIUM. Pods scale-shaped, much flattened contrary to the very narrow 



partition, often notched or wing-margined at the top. Flowers white. 



19. ALYSSUM. Pods roundish, flattened parallel to the broad partition. Seeds 



Hat, commonly wing-margined. Flowers yellow or white. 



2. Fruit indehiscent, wine-like, \-seeded. 



20. ISATIS. Flowers yellow. Fruit 1-celled, 1-seeded, resembling a small samara 



or ash-fruit. 



3. Fruit fleshy, or when ripe and dry corky, not opening by valves, 2 -many-seeded. 



21. CAKII.E. Fruit jointed in the middle ; the two short joints 1-celled, 1-seeded. 



Seed oblong. 



22. RAPIIANUS. Fruit several-seeded, with cellular matter or Trith constrictions 



between the spherical seeds. 



1. BRASSICA, CABBAGE, MUSTARD, &c. (Ancient Latin name of 

 ( 'aliki-e. liotanieally the .Mustards rank in the same ijrmis.) (T) (5) Cult, 

 from Ku., m- run wild as wmU ; known liy their \cllow lld\\i'rs, lirak-pointed 

 jiixls, iiml o-ldliosi- socds, the cdt\ Irdons \\ra|i]icd round the radiele. 



B. oleracea, CABBAGE. The original is a sca-eoast plant of Knrope, with 

 tliiek and hard stem, and pretty larjje pale \ello\\ (lowers; the leaves \ ery ^la- 

 brous and glaucous ; upper ones entire, clasping the stem, not aurieled at the 

 lia>r : eult. as a biennial, the rounded, thick, and llr.-hy, strongly veined leaves 

 mllect into a heail the lir.-t year upon the summit of' a short and .-tout stem. 



Var. IJiioccoi.i is a state in which the stem divi.lo into >liort llohy branches, 

 lieariiiLT clu-ter> of abortive flower-buds. Var. I'M i.i I I.OWKU ha> the nour- 

 i-hiii"; matter mainly concentrated in short imperfect (lower-branches, collected 

 into a tlat head. Var. Kom.uusi has the nourishing matter accumulated ir. 

 (he stem, which forms a turnip-like enlargement above ground, beneath the 

 cluster of leaves. KALE is more nearly the natural slate of the species, the 

 Meshy leaves not forming :i head. 



B. camp^Stris, of the < >ld World ; like (lie last, but with briirhter flowers ; 

 the lower leaves pinnatilid or divided and rou^h with stiff hairs, and the upper 

 aurieled at the base, is reproentcd in cultivation by the Var. ('MI /. \ or HATK, 

 \\ ith small annual root, cult, for the oil of the seed. \'ar. Trnxir ( B. N MM < ) ; 

 cult, as a biennial, for the nourishment accumulated in the napiform white root. 



Var. K i i \ r. \<;\ or Swi. DISH TTKNI r, has a longer and vellowi-h root. 



B. Sinipastrum, <>r Sinapis arvensis, CHMM.MCK. A troublcsoine 



weed of cultivation in prainlielils. annual. \\'ith the snmcwliat rotiLrh leaves barelv 

 toothed or little lobed, and nearly smooth pods spreading in a lixise raceme, thu 

 seed-bearing ],art lonucr than the conical (usually empty) beak. 



B. (or Sinapis) alba, \Vmrr, MISIMID. Cult, and in waste places, an- 

 nual ; the leaves all pinnatilid ami rou^h-hairy ; pods spreading in the raceme. 



