PI. ex. thai. 80. CRUCIFER^. 428. Brassica. 68S 



Cultivated. 



Root nuti'itive, used as a potherb; seeds yield much oil 

 used in woolcombing and for other purposes; oil-cakes 

 fatten cattle, and are also used as manure. 



2. Brassica splicer or liiza. Roundrooted colewort. 

 Root stemforrning, orbicular, flattened, fleshy; root-leaves 



lyrate, rough ; stem-leaves not in the least cut. 



Rapa sativa rolunda, Raii Syn. 294, I. 

 Rapum iiiajuf, Ger.eni. 232, 1. 

 Brassica Rapa, Lin. S. P. 931. 

 Sinapis Rapa, Stokes Bot. Mat. 3Ied. 478. 

 Turnep. Rape. KnoUes. 



Edges of fields, also cultivated, in light soils; biennial; 

 April. 



Root fleshy ; ste?7i upright, smooth, branched ; root-leaves 

 rough, dark green ; stem-leaves smooth, rather glaucous ; 

 silJqucB cylindrical. — Roots nutritive to man and cattle, 

 either raw or dressed ; rind slightly acrid ; juice of the 

 root with sugar used in colds and hoarsenesses, also fer- 

 mented for a common sort of cyder; seeds pressed for oil; 

 young shoots used for sallads, or as a potherb. 



B. ollonga. Root oblong. 



Rapa sativa oblonga, seu foemina, Raii Syn, 294, 2. 

 Rapa radice oblonga, Ger. em, 232, 2, 

 Long-rooied turneps. 



3. Brassica oleracea. Pot colewort. 

 Root stemform.ing, cylindrical, fleshy; leaves bald, glau- 

 cous, repand or lobed. 



Brassica maritiraa arborea sen procerior laiBusfi, Htdi Syn, 293, 1. 

 Brassica oleracea a, Lin. S. P. 932. 



Sea cabbage. Sea coleirort, 



Clifls by the sea, also cultivated ; biennial ; May, June. 



Leaves rough, unequally toothed ijlowers yellow; siliqucs 

 torulose. — Roots eatable, but not so tender as those of 

 turnep ; leaves eatable, when wild require boiling in two 

 walers to remove the saltness; and when cultivated required 

 to be blanched, by being kept from the light. 



i3. viridis. Leaves white with a glaucous tinge. 



Brassica vulgaris sativa, Ger. on, 312, 1. 

 Brassica sativa, Park. 268. 

 Garden coleicorts. 



y. subrithens. Leaves red. 



Brassica rubra, Ger. em, 312,3. 

 Red coleteorts. Red kale. 



