Na’pus. 
Ra’pa. 
TETRADYNAMIA. SILIQUOSA. Brassica. 
indented, blunt, rough. Flowers yellow or white. i 
Flowers yellow in a garden specimen. Woopwarp. y 
places of growth given by Hadson are those from Ray, eid h 
really belong to B. orientalis, to which they are a referred, 
St. Hence it is probable that we have not both s and not 
unlikely that our plant may not accord well with either. 1 learn, 
— very lately, from Mr. Pitchford, that the B. campestris 
as found by the Rev. Mr. Sutton, of Norwich, at Bradley 
Orford, Suffolk, A. fs 
B. The root a regular continuation of the stem; spindle- 
shaped. 
~ Ludw. 165~-Blackw. 224—Wale.—Fuchs. 177-F. B. ii. 843, 
= Trag. 730-Lonic. i, 191. 3-Lod, obs. 200. 2-Ger. em 
235. Pack 865-Pet. 45. 9-H. ox. ili. 2. row 3.2. fr 
3<Ger. 18). 200+" 
’ Root-leaves lyre-shaped, smooth; stem-leaves sie dae 
dBlorgy embracing the stem, a little toothed. Calyx expanding, 
approaching to hae of Mog o Linn. Stem some wha branched, 
Calyx yellowis green. (tatty a flatted knob. with fre- 
quently 3 or A wary excrescences, not occasioned wae by the 
bulk of'the inc’ . ere is a variety with the leaves 
hairy at the edge. at yellow 
Wild Navew. — Nape . Rape Cabbage. On ditch 
banks, and among co B. May.* 
B. The root a papes continuation of the stem ; round, 
depressed, fl 
Blackw. Sie em 728-Matth. 435—Dod. 675+ 
1—Eob. obs. 98. 1, and ic. 197. 1—Ger. em. 232. 1-H. 0%: 
iii. 2. row 2. 1-Pet: 45.7-Ger. 177. 1-Ger. 177. 2 
we rough, deeply indented, a prhow Bosse 
Set Cabbage. 
Var. 2. Roots oblong. 
J. B. ii. 838—Matth, 436-Dod. 673. 2~Lob. obs. 98. 2, and 
ic. i, 197. 2—Ger. em. 232. 2-H. ox. iii. 2. row 3.2. f.} 
—Pet, 45. 8. 
* The roots of the cultivated variety may be eaten like the Turnep, 
but they have a stronger taste, and its seeds, which are called Coleseed 
afford a large quantity x il, called Rape Oil, What 
after the expressing of the oil is called Oil Cake, and is used for fattening 
© k $s roken to pieces, and st on the 
Jand as a manure i t to be a very efficacious one, and 
from 41. to 61. per ton. About half a ton is laid onan acre. WoopwAs® 
Cows, goats, and swine eat it. 
