MUSTARD FAMILY 



network like lace. Then it bursts into yellow bloom 

 and becomes still finer, more feathery and lace-like. 

 The stems are so small and so dark a green that at 

 a short distance they do not show and the cloud of 

 blossoms seems floating in the air — at times it looks 

 like golden mist." 



The Wild Turnip is another Brassica, having Mus- 

 tard flowers and appearing more or less abundantly 

 in gardens and cultivated fields. It seems to be the 

 common Turnip gone wild and persists for one or two 

 generations and then disappears. It may be dis- 

 tinguished from the Black Mustard and the Charlock 

 by its leaves. The lower leaves are lyrate and petioled, 

 but the upper leaves are clasping, and all are much 

 softer in texture than those of the other species. 



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