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open at the top, and two of them gibbous at the 

 bafe : the petals are yellow and vein'd : the JJli- 

 qu^e are fmooth, or (lightly hairy, and longer than 

 the rojlrtm: the feeds are acrid and fufcous, 

 eight or nine in a pod. 

 The young plants, before they flower, are boiled 

 and eaten as greens in feveral parts oi England.. 



S. filiquis hifpidis, roftro obliquo longiffimo enfifor- 

 mi. Lin. fyfi. nat. 445. .S^. pi 93:^. (Ger. em. 

 14^4' f' 4. i^£i' herb. t. 45. /. 10. Blackivell. t. 29) 



White Muftard. Anglis. 



It is fometimes found in hedges and waile places, 

 near towns and villages, but is probably to be 

 confidered only as the outcaft of gardens. O. 

 VII. 



The flowers are yellow, the peduncles llriated : 

 xkitfiliquie are white, hairy, fliorter than the rof- 

 irum^ and Jiave generally three knobs or protu- 

 berances over the feeds : tlie feeds are yellowilh, 

 acrid, and three or four in a pod. 



The feminal leaves of this plant, with thofe of the 

 Lepidium fativum Lin. afford a well-known fallad 

 in the fpring. 



SIN APIS filiquis glabris tetragonis raceme ap- 

 preffis. Lin.fyji. nat. p. 445. Sp. pi. 933. {Ger. 

 em. 244./. I. Moris, hift. f. 3. /. 3./. r. or dims 

 Juperioris. Pet. herh. t. 45./. 11. /. Baub. IL p. 

 855, cum bona icone & defcriptione Blackwell t, 

 446) 



Common 



