26 6. CRUCIFERJE. 



11. ALLIARIA Adans. Sauce-alone. 



1. A. officinalis (Andrzj.) ; 1. heartshaped the lower ones reni- 

 forra sinuate-dentate all stalked, pods erect- patent much longer 

 than their stalks, seeds oblong subcylindrical striated. E. B. 

 796. R. ii. 60. Sisymbrium Alliaria Sm., Koch. St. erect, 

 1 3 feet high, slightly branched. L. large, thin, veined, smell- 

 ing like garlic when bruised. Fl. white. Hedgebanks. B. V. 

 VI. Jack-by-the-Hedge. 



12. ERYSIMUM Linn. Worm-seed. 



1. E. cheiranthoides (L.) ; 1. oblong-lanceolate slightly toothed 

 with stellate-tripartite hairs, all narrowed into a slight footstalk, 

 pedicels longer than the calyx 2 or 3 times shorter than the pods, 

 pods patent ascending, seeds small many. E. B. 942. R. ii. 83. 

 Seeds very small, so many in the pod as to be nearly 2-rowed. 

 Fl. small. Pods always diverging from the stem. Cultivated 

 ground. Wild in the Fens. B. VI. VIII. E. I. 



*2. E. orientate (R. Br.) ; L elliptical heartshaped obtuse 

 clasping the stem, radical 1. obovate, all smooth glaucous undi- 

 vided entire. E. B. 1804. R. ii. 61. Fl. white or cream-coloured. 

 " Fields and cliffs near the sea." A. V. VII. E. I. 



Tribe III. Brassicea. 



13. BRASSICA Linn. 

 * Valves of pod \-ribbed. 



1. B. oleracea (L.) ; 1. glabrous glaucous waved and lobed, 

 lower 1. lyrate, upper I. oblong sessile. E. B. 63J. R. ii. 9/. 

 L. thick and somewhat fleshy. . Stam. all erect. Fl. large, cream- 

 coloured. Raceme elongated before the fl. expand. Cal. erect, 

 adpressed. The wild state of the garden Cabbage. Cliffs bv the 

 sea. B. VI. VIII. Wild Cabbage. 



2. B. campestris (L.) ; lower L lyrate dentate somewhat hispid, 

 upper I. ovate acuminate deeply cordate amplexicaul glabrous. 

 E. B. 2234. " Raceme close, the open fl. rising above the 

 buds." Fl. yellow. j8. B. Rapa (L.) ; root caulescent fleshy. 

 E. B. 2176. R. ii. 96. Borders of fields. A. or B. VI. VII. 

 Wild Navew. j8. Turnip. 



3. B. Napus (L.); lower I. lyrate dentate glabrous, upper I. 

 oblong somewhat narrowed below with a dilated cordate semiam- 

 plexicaul base. E. B. 2146. R. ii. 93. *' Raceme elongated at 

 the time when the fl. expand. Shorter stam. patent, ascending." 

 Fl. yellow. It is difficult to find any character by which to di- 



