9 1Q BRASSICA. [CLASS XV. ORDER II. 



hairs, slender. Leaves lanceolate, sessile, dark green, rough, with 

 close blanched or starry pubescence, the margins entire, or slightly 

 toothed. Inflorescence an erect sub-corymbose raceme, becoming after 

 flowering much elongated and lax, the pedicles spreading when in 

 fruit, erect in flower, the calyx of four equal oblong narrow pieces, 

 with a pale narrow membranous margin. Corolla of four yellow 

 broadly ovate notched petals, the claw tapering, white. Stamens with 

 awl-shaped filaments and small ovate yellow anthers. Stigma obtuse, 

 nearly sessile. Fruit an erect quadrangular siliqua, somewhat 

 compressed, more or less scattered over with close pressed stellated 

 hairs. 



Habitat. Cultivated fields, gardens, and waste places. 



Annual ; flowering in July and August. 



The seeds are bitter and acrid, and have been used for destroying 

 intestinal worms in children ; but are not now applied to any use. 

 The whole plant is bitter and acrid, and was formerly used in medi- 

 cinal compounds, but is now almost forgotten. 



2. E. orienta'le, Brown. (Fig. 1053.) Haie's-ear Treacle Mustard. 

 Leaves entire, smooth, glaucous, the radical ones oblong, the upper 

 cordate, amplexicaul; siliqua long, spreading, quadrangular; stigma 

 obtuse, sessile. 



English Flora, vol. iii. p. 202. Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. 

 p. 254. Lindley, Synopsis, p. 30. Brassica orientalis, Linn. 

 English Botany, t. 1804. 



Hoot small, tapering. Stem erect, from one to two feet high, round, 

 smooth, glaucous, simple or branched. Leaves a smooth glaucous 

 green, succulent, quite entire, the radical ones oblong, obovate, the 

 upper oblong, heart-shaped at the base, sessile, and clasping the stem. 

 inflorescence a much elongated terminal raceme, of a few pale yellow 

 or cream-coloured flowers, the pedicles about as long as the calyx 

 spreading. Calyx of four,, narrow oblong erect smooth pieces. 

 Corolla of four ovate somewhat spreading petals, tapering into a 

 narrow claw. Stamens with slender filaments and small ovate anthers. 

 Stigma obtuse, sessile. Fruit a quadrangular smooth siliqua, spread, 

 ing, or somewhat curved, from two to three inches long. 



Habitat. Fields and on cliffs near the sea, rare; Essex, Suffolk, 

 and Sussex. 



Annual ; flowering in June. 



GENUS XXIV. BRAS'SICA. LINN. Cabbage Turnip. 



Nat. Ord. CRDCIF'ER^E. Juss. 



GEN. CHAR. Siliqua linear or oblong, with convex valves, having a 

 longitudinal dorsal rib, and sometimes with lateral branched 



