CRUCIFER^. 35 



VI, Edmonton. 



VII. Camden Town; Irv. M8S. Hampstead, 1850, Syme ; Pkyt. iv. 46. 

 Chelsea ; Britten. Sandy End, Eulham. Site of International Ex- 

 hibition, South Kensington. Green Park, a weed in gardens and 

 flower-beds. Kilburn, 1862; Bromwich. 

 First record: Irvine, about 1830. It is especially abundant in land near 

 the Thames. 



BEASSICA, Linn. 



S3. ^ B. polymorpha* Syme. 

 Comp. 103. 



1. B. napus, L. Navew. Winter Bape. Coleseed. 



Napus sylvestris, G. B. Pin. (Blackst.). 



Cyb. Br. i. 160 ; iii. 385. Syme E. B. i. t. 88. 



River banks and cultivated land ; common. A. or B. May — July. 



1. Harefield ; Blackst. Fasc. 63. 



II. By the Thames, not unfrequent in this district. By the Tliames, near 

 Hampton, 1829 ; Winch MS8. {' B. campestris'). Bet. Sunbury and 

 Walton Bridge. Bet. Hampton Court and Kingston Bridge. 

 III. Near Richmond bridge. Cornfields at Wood End, Hind ; Melvili, 10. 

 V. Chiswick ; Fox. Very abundant on banks of Thames from Putney 

 upwards, 1852, Syme; Phyt. iv. 859. 

 VII. Marylebone Fields, 1815; Herb. G. # E. Kentish Town; Herb. 

 Hardiv. Side of Lea, bet. Lea Bridge and Tottenham ; Cherry. 



2. B. campestris, L. Summer Bape. Colza. Swedish Turnip. 

 Cyb. Br. i. 158 ; iii. 385. Syme E. B. i. t. 89. 



Sides of Fields and road-sides ; rare. A. or B. May — July. 

 III. Twickenham, Mr, Quekett ; Varenne. 



VII. Bet. Kentish Town and Hampstead ; behind Primrose Hill ; Herb. 

 Hardw. [All the ditch-banks about Islington ; Pet. Bot. Bond. 

 289.] 

 Hardly to be distinguished from B. napus, but a much less common 

 weed in Middlesex. We have not observed it ourselves. 



3. B. Bapa, L. B. caynpestris var. fi (Bab,). Turnip. 



Bapistrum aliud sylvestre non bulbosum (Park).? Rapum minus (Grer.). 

 Cyb. Br. 1. 160 ; iii. 385. Syme E. B. i. t, 90, 

 Fields and waysides ; rare. A. or B. May — July. 

 III. Commonly at Harrow ; Melvili, 10. 

 VI. Edmonton. 



VII. [Going from Shoreditch by Bethnal Green to Hackney ; Park. Thcat. 

 864,] Hampstead ; Herb. Hardw. Bet, Kentish Town and Hamp- 

 stead. 

 This is usually found in fields where it has been cultivated, and can scarcely 

 be said to be naturalised. It was cultivated in Gerarde's time near 

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