of the Genus Brassica. 89 



from the Brassica Rapa, whicli has hispid leaves, without 

 glaucous bloom; and from the Brassica Najms and Brassica 

 ■prcecox, the radical leaves of both which are pinnatifid, or 

 lyre-shaped. 



First Race*. Brassica oleracea sylvestris. 

 Choii Saiwacre. Wild Cabbage. 



From universal testimony, this Cabbage is a native of Eu- 

 rope; it is mentioned by Dioscoridesf as an inhabitant of 

 Greece, and Sibthorp^ expressly says that he found it wild 

 on rocks near the sea-shore of that country. M. Bosc as- 

 sures us that it still grows wild on the coasts of France. 

 M. Bouchet found it near Abbeville, on the hilly shores of 

 Treport; and I remember, likewise, to have seen a few ir- 

 regular plants on the elevated coasts of Normandy. In En- 

 gland §, it is found more plentifully in Yorkshire, Wales, 

 Cornwall, and especially about Dover ||, where it was noticed 

 by Ray ^; and grows abundantly, together with CheiranOms 

 Cheiri**, (Wild Wall Flower,) on the chalky rocks of that 

 shore. Both these plants are in blossom in the month of May, 

 and are distinguished from each other b}' their different tints, 

 the flowers of the Wild Cabbage being extremely pale, and. 

 those of the Wall Flower a deep yellow ; the stalk of the Wild 

 Cabbage is crooked, half ligneous, branching, and seemingly 

 perennial, though it most probably runs to seed at the end of 

 two, three or four years, and then dies ; it is from three to 

 four inches in diameter; the young branches are green, her- 

 baceous, and cylindrical. From the remarkable tliickness of 

 the parent stalk, compared with its height, and with the se- 

 condary branches, we can easily account tor the thick and fleshy 

 stalk of some of its varieties, such as the Chmi-rave. The 

 leaves which shoot from the summit of the sterile branches 

 form a kind of rose, giving to the wild plant the intermediate 

 aspect between the two grand races, the Round-headed Cab- 



* The Professor has used the terms Race, Variety, and Sub-variety, to 

 enable him more distinctly to class and divide what may be considered the 

 Botanical varieties of each species. Each Race comprehends one class of 

 variation, and is divided and subdivided into what he here terms Varieties 

 and Sub-varieties. Scr. 



+ Kja^^/i ij/^sQfj;. Dioscor. Hist. ed. Serr. lib. 2. cap. 140. 



I Sibthorp, Fin-Oi Grcecce Prodroimts, vol. ii. p. 2!). 



9 Brassica olcmcca. Smith's Flora Britannica, vol. ii. p. 720. English 

 Rot. plate fi;{7. 



II (icrard also found it in the county of Kent, on the shores between 

 Whitstable and the Isle ofThanct. Sec Johnson's fierartl, page 31(5. — Sec. 



^ Raii Si/nopsig Slirp. Brit. edit. '.i. vol. ii. paf;e 2[)',i. 

 •* C'/iriraiit/iiisfrulicit/osiin. Smith's Flora Brit. vol. ii. page 709. Eng. 

 Dot. plate l!);i4. 



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