SEA-SIDE PLANTS. 



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give a peculiar tint and character to the vegetation 

 of the spot. It is sufficiently like the young 



SEA CABBAGE (Brassica oleracea). 



cabbage-plant of the kitchen-garden to be recog- 

 nised at once : but few who look upon its bluish 

 small scattered leaves and handsome pale yellow 

 flowers, much like the wild mustard or charlock, 

 are aware that to this sea colewort we owe all the 

 kinds of cultivated cabbage, the leaves and flowers 

 of which are eaten at our tables : and that red 

 and white cabbage, and the giant cow-cabbage, and 



