GAELIC-MUSTAED. 



Ord., 



Alii* 



>-ia qfficinalis. Xat. 

 Critcifera;. 



little care will be neces- 

 sary to prevent a mistake 

 arising in one's mind between 

 the present plant and the 

 Suymbrium. offic'n/ale, or com- 

 mon hedge-mustard. Both 

 plants are equally common, 

 and both are figured in our 

 series. The one plant has 

 small yellow flowers, and the 

 other considerably larger 

 white ones ; but they are 

 very nearly allied botanically 

 and some writers have placed 

 the two plants in the same 

 genus. No one, however, 

 could possibly mistake one 

 for the other if he saw them 



both together, as the similarity is verbal alone. Our present 

 plant is called the garlic-mustard, and the hedge-garlic, 

 while the other is the hedge-mustard. Hedge-garlic is not 

 by any means a happy title, as the true garlic, a plant 

 figured in a previous volume, is also a dweller in the 

 hedgerow, and is wholly different from this in every way. 



