GENUS 43. 



MUSTARD FAMILY. 



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i. Raphanus Raphanistrum L. Wild Radish. Jointed or White Charlock. Wild 



Rape. Fig. 2110. 



Raphanus Raphanistrum L. Sp. PI. 669. 1753. 



Biennial or annual, erect or ascending from 

 a slender root, freely branching, i-2i high, 

 sparsely pubescent with stiff hairs especially 

 below, or rarely glabrous throughout Basal 

 and lower leaves deeply lyrate-pinnatifid, 4'- 

 8' long, with a large terminal lobe and 4-6 

 pairs of successively smaller lateral ones, 

 all crenate or dentate ; upper leaves few, 

 small, oblong; flowers 6"-o," broad, yellow 

 (sometimes purplish), fading to white, pur- 

 plish-veined ; pedicels 3"-8" long in fruit ; 

 pods i'-ii' long, 6-io-seeded, nearly cylindric 

 when fresh, constricted between the seeds 

 when dry, longitudinally grooved, tipped with 

 a conic beak .5"-io" long. 



In fields and waste places, Pennsylvania to 

 Ontario and Newfoundland. Often a trouble- 

 some weed. Introduced also in California and 

 British Columbia and in Bermuda. Naturalized 

 from Europe. Native also of northern Asia. 

 Black or wild mustard. Warlock. Cadlock. 

 Curlock. Skedlock. Kraut-weed. Erroneously 

 called Rape. Summer. 



2. Raphanus sativus L. Garden 

 Radish. Fig. 2111. 



Raphanus sativus L. Sp. PI. 669. 1753. 



Similar to the last, but flowers pink or 

 white. Root deep, fusiform or napiform, 

 fleshy. Pods fleshy, 2-3-seeded, not longi- 

 tudinally grooved, often equalled or ex- 

 ceeded by the long conic beak. 



Cultivated and occasionally spontaneous 

 for a year or two in gardens or fields, rarely 

 in waste places. Also in Cuba. Native of 

 Asia. June-Oct. 



44. CAKILE [Tourn.] Mill. Card. Diet. Abr. ed. 4. 1754. 



Annual, diffuse or ascending, glabrous fleshy branching herbs, with purplish or white 

 flowers. Siliques sessile on the calyx, flattened or ridged, indehiscent, 2-jointed, the joints 

 i-celled and i-seeded, or the lower one seedless, separating when ripe. Style none; coty- 

 ledons accumbent. [Old Arabic name.] 



A genus of several species, natives of sea and lake shores of Europe and North America, one 

 of them extending into tropical regions. Type species : Bunias Cakile L. 



