CABBAGE FAMILY 



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Fl. April — June. Annual or Biennial An early-flowering and 

 attractive plant, with delicate green leaves and snow-white flowers, 

 but emitting a nauseous smell of garlic when gathered. It was 

 formerly used as a sauce. 



1 1. Erysimum (Treacle-mustard). — Hoary herbs, with adpres&ed 

 forked hairs ; leaves simple, without auricles ; pods narraw, linear. 



ALLiARiA OFFICINALIS (Gurlzc MiistavcTy. 



compressed j valves keeled, i -veined, (Name from the Greek 

 eruo^ I draw blisters.) 



I. E. cheiranthoides (Worm-seed, Treacle-mustard). — .5'/(^;;/ erect, 

 branched, i to 2 feet high ; haves lanceolate, acute, slightly 

 toothed, with three-forked hairs, dull green \ flowers small, yellow ; 

 sepals whitish ; pods i in. long, erect, on short-spreading stalks. — 

 Generally in cultivated ground; uncommon. — Fl. June — August. 

 Annual. 



