52 MUSTARD FAMILY. 



12. DOTARIA. Tods, &c. as in the preceding. Seed-stalks broad and flat 



Stem 2- 3-leaved in the middle, naked below, springing from a horizontal 

 scaly-toothed or irregular fleshy rootstock. 



13. LUNARIA. Pods oval or oblong, large and very flat, stalked above the calyx. 



Seeds winged, 2-row^d in each cell. Flowers pretty large, purple. 



14. DRABA. Pods round-oval, oblong or linear, flat. Seeds wingless, 2-rowed in 



each cell. Flowers small, white in the common species. 



-M. *-+ ++ *-* Pod shorty Jlattish parallel to the broad partition. Flowers yellow, small. 

 16. CAMKLIXA. 1'ods turgid, obovate or pear-shaped. 

 *H. .-*. +f .*-* t-t- Pod shoi'f, very mm h flattened contrary to the narrow partition ; the 



valves therefore deeply boat-shaped. Flowers while, small. 



7J. CAPSELLA. Pods obovate-triangular, or triangular with a notch at the top 

 <; * Seeds or the ovules single or sometimes 2 in each cell. Pods short andjlat. 



-- Corolla irregular, the petals being very unequal. 



17- IBERIS. Flowers in short and flnt-topped clusters, white or purple ; the two 

 petals on the outer side of the flower much larger than the others. Pods 

 scale-shaped, roundish or ovate, much flattened contrary to the very narrow 

 partition, lotched at the wing-margined top. 



*- *- Corolla regular, small. 



)8. LEPID1UM. Pods scale-shaped, much flattened contrary to the very narrow 

 partition, often notched or wing-margined at the top. Flowers white. 



19. ALYSSUM. Pods roundish, flattened parallel to the broad partition. Seeds 



Hat, commonly wing-margined. Flowers yellow or white. 



2. Fruit indehiscent, tving-like, 1-seedcd. 



20. ISATIS. Flowers yellow. Fruit 1-celled, 1-seeded, resembling a small samara 



or ash-fruit. 



3. Fruit fleshy, or when ripe and dry corky, not opening by valves, 2 -many-seeded. 



21. CAK1LE. Fruit jointed in the' middle ; the two short joints 1-celled, 1-seeded. 



Seed oblong. 



22. RAP H ANUS. Fruit several-seeded, with cellular matter or ^ith constrictions 



between the spherical seeds. 



1. BRASSICA, CABBAGE, MUSTARD, &c. (Ancient Latin name of 

 Cabbage. Botanically the Mustards rank in the same genus.) (5) Cult, 

 from Eu., or run wild as weeds ; known by their yellow flowers, beak-pointed 

 pods, and globose seeds, the cotyledons wrapped round the radicle. 



B. oleracea, CABBAGE. The original is a sea-coast plant of Europe, with 

 thick and hard stem, and pretty large pale yellow flowers ; the leaves very gla- 

 brous and glaucous ; upper ones entire, clasping the stem, not auricled at the 

 base : cult, as a biennial, the rounded, thick, and fleshy, strongly veined leaves 

 collect into a head the first year upon the summit of a short and stout stem. 



Var. BROCCOLI is a state in which the stem divides into short fleshy branches 

 bearing clusters of abortive flower-buds. Yar. CAULIFLOWEH haa the nour- 

 ishing matter mainly concentrated in short imperfect flower-branches, collected 

 into a flat head. Var. KOHLRABI has the nourishing matter accumulated in 

 the stein, which fonns a turnip-like enlargement above ground, ben.-arh the 

 eluster of leaves. KALE is more nearly the natural state of the species, the 

 fleshy leaves not forming a head. 



B. Camp6stris, of the Old World ; like the last, but with brighter flowers ; 

 the lower leaves pinnatitid or divided and rough with stiff hairs, and the upper 

 auricled at the ha>e, is represented in cultivation by the Yar. Coi./ \ or KATE, 

 with small animal root, cult, for the oil of the seed. Yar. TIKM r ( I>. N AITS) ; 

 cult, as a biennial, lor the nourishment accumulated in the nupiform white root. 



Yar. IXITAKACA or SWKIMSII Tt I;N:I-, lias a longer and yellowish root. 



B. Sinipastrum, or Sinapis arvensis, CIIYKI.<>< K. A troublesome 



weed of cultivation in graintields, animal, with the somewhat rough leaves barely 

 toothed <>r little lobed, and nearlv smooth pods spreading in a loose raceme, thu 

 seed-bearing part longer than the conical (usually empty) beak. 



B. (or Sinapis) alba, Win IT; Mi si MM>. Cult, and in waste places, an- 

 nual ; the leaves all pinnatitid and rough-hairy ; pods spreading in the raCcma, 



