Raphanis’- 
trum, 
TETRADYNAMIA. SILIQUOSA. Raphanus. 
Common Mustard. Cornfields, ditch banks, road ree ae 
banks of the Severn. St.] A. June. 
RAPH’ANUS. Cal. close, upright : nect. glands 2 
tween the shorter stamens and the pistil, 
and 2 between the longer stamens and the 
calyx: pod round, but protuberating, with 
cells, and nearly jointed. 
R. Pods round, jointed, smooth, of 1 cell, Lun. originally 
of 2 cells, lut, as the seeds increase in s ize, the parti- 
tion becomes obliterated. HA. 
Curt. 267-E. bot. 856—Linn. amen. acad. vi. at p. 451- 
FI, dan. 67 8-~F. B. ii. 851. 1-Ger. 179, 2-Lab. ie. a 
199, 1-Ger. 240. 1—Pet. 46. 10-Ger. 199-Park. 863. 4 
~H. ox. iii. 13. 1 and 2-Park, 863. 5-H. ox. iii. 13; 
row 254. fo 4e 
Stem rough with transparent hairs pointing backwards. Leaves 
sometimes rough with hairs ; the /ower lyre-sha mee alter- 
r lyre-shaped, 
_ nate, heart-oblong, serrated, the lowermost very small, the odd 
on 
on 3 pe with purplish waite: Curt.—Plant ae a 
a sea-green cast. Petals of whatever colour, veined with dark 
_ * The seeds, reduced 2 powder make. the common dso much 
in request at our tables. They yield a pose ES quantity of expressed 
oil, which pattakes but little of the acrimony of the plant. 
a crumb o negar, and powdered mustard seed, are very com- 
monly wd ote to he son of the feet, as stimulants, in fevers that fig 
such treatment; they are used 3 vantage, topically applied, in ed 
rheumatic and sciatic ains. U he whole, wherever we want a strong 
oa that acts upon the nervous goer without exciting much heat, 
e know none preferable to Its acrimony consists in alt 
sitential otl,—The Phaléda. Fuliginosa Lived upon the different species. 
