MUSTARD FAMILY 



Fruit. — Pod, linear, two-celled, about an inch long, 

 tipped with the slender style. 



Pollinated by small bees. Nectar-bearing. 



Crinkle-Root, as this plant is known to country 

 children, possesses a long, edible rootstock, crisp and 

 peppery and well worth the trouble of digging it up. 

 The leaves rising from the rootstock stand up on long 

 petioles, and are compotmded of three broad, ovate, 

 toothed leaflets. There are two similar leaves on the 

 flowering stem nearly opposite one another. 



This is one of our early bloomers, found in company 

 with the Anemones and Bloodroots, and following the 

 Hepatica. The flower is a white cross, the inflores- 

 cence a terminal raceme, the fruit a flat pod. While 

 the plants do not exactly grow in beds, there are many 

 together, so that one might say they grow in commu- 

 nities. 



YELLOW ROCKET. WINTER-CRESS 



Barbarea mdgdris 



Barbarea, because anciently caUed the Herb of St. 

 Barbara. 



An early blooming biennial. Naturalized from Europe. 

 Sunny places in low grounds and margins of runlets. 

 Labrador to New York, south to Virginia and westward. 

 Abundant in northern Ohio. April, May. 



Stems. — About two feet high, growing in tufts, branched, 

 leafy, bearing many racemes of yellow flowers. 



Leaves. — Lower leaves lyrate; the terminal division 

 round and usually large; the lateral divisions in pairs 

 varying from one to four, or rarely wanting; upper leaves 

 obovate, cut, toothed, or pinnatified at the base. 



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