346 HYPOPETALES. 
Cabbage (Brassica oleracea), of which the White Garden — 
or Heading Cabbage, the Colewort, the Red Cabbage, the — 
Blistered Cabbage or Savoy, the Borcole or Green Kale, 
the Cauliflower, the Broccoli, and the Brussels’ Sprouts, 
are varieties; Rape (Brassica napus), used as a salad, and 
the seeds of which contain a large quantity of fixed oil ; Gar- 
den Rocket (Brassica eruca) ; Turnip (Brassica rapa ; Rad- 
ish (Raphanus sativus); Sea-kale (Crambe maritima) ; White 
Mustard (Sinapis alba), the leaves of which are used as a 
salad; Black Mustard (Sinapis nigra), the ground ‘seeds of — 
which constitute a well known condiment; Garden Cress — 
(Lepidium sativum), a favourite small salad ; Winter Cress 
(Barbarea vulgaris); Water Cress (Sisymbrium Nasturti- 
um); Seurvy Grass ( Cochlearia officinalis) ; Horse Radish 
( Cochlearia Armoracia ); Charlock ( Sinapis arvensis), some- 
times eaten as turnip-tops ; Ladies’ Smock (Cardamine pra- 
tensis), the leaves of which are sometimes used as a salad. 
Gold of Pleasure (Camelina sativa or Myagrum sativum), — 
is much cultivated in France for the seeds, which yield a fixed 
oil much used for lamps.—Richard. 
Meprctnat Prorertizes.—The plants in this family have 
an acrid or pungent taste, and are generally stimulating and 
aromatic, being valued in medicine chiefly as antiscorbutic. 
A pungent volatile oil is found more or less in them all, and 
in some it is extremely acrid, as in Mustard seed. They 
are said to contain a quantity of azote or nitrogen, an ele- 
ment more rare in vegetables, Ladies’ Smock (Cardamine 
pratensis ), is somewhat diaphoretic, and has been recom- 
mended in some nervous diseases. Scurvy Grass and Horse 
_ Radish (Cochlearia officinalis and C. Armoracia), and Wa-— 
ter Cress (Sisymbrium Nasturtium) are stimulant and diu- 
_ retic, and deemed antiscorbutic. Mustard seeds, from the _ 
Sinapis alba and S. nigra, are used to stimulate the intesti- 
