XCIII. 



SISYMBRIUM OFFICINALE. 



Common Hedge-Mustard. 



Class XV. Tetradynamia. — Order II. Siliquosa. 



Nat. Ord. Crucifer^. 



Gen. Char. Calyx patent, sometimes erect. Pod sessile, 

 rounded or angular. Cotyledons plane, incumbent, 

 sometimes oblique. 



Spec. Char. Pods subulate, pubescent, close-pressed to 

 the main stalk. Leaves runcinate, hairy. Stem hispid. 



SYIJONYMES. 

 Greek .... tpvcri/iov. Hippocrates. 



'Erysimum vulgare. Bauh. Pin. 100. Tourn. Inst, 228. 

 Erysimum Dioscoridis Lobelii. Ger. Em. 254. 

 Eruca hirsuta siliqua cauli adpressa Erysimum dicta. Rait 



, .. , Syn. 298. 



Latin -^ " 



I Verbena fceraina. Trag. 102. 

 Erysimum officinale. Lin. Sp. PI. 922. Eng. Fl. ni. p. 19G. 

 Eng. Bot. t. 735. 



L, Sisymbrium officinale. Dec. Syst. ii. p. 460. 



French Velar; Velar des boutiques ; Tortelle. 



Italian .... Erisamo. 



Spanish .... Erisimo ; Jaramago. 



German.... Wegsenf; Hederich ; Wassernfhederich. 



Dutch Steenraket. 



Danish .. . . Vild Senep. 

 Swedish . . . Vceggkressa. 

 Polish • • ■ • Gorczyka polna. 



Description. — The root is annual, tapering, and fiu-nished 

 with long fibres. The stem is erect, cylindrical, leafy, pubes- 

 cent, with spreading brandies, and rises from one to two feet in 

 height. The leaves are alternate, petiolate, somewhat villous, 



