910 BRASSICA. [CLASS XV. ORDER 11. 



hairs, slender. Leaves lanceolate, sessile, dark green, rough, with 

 close blanched or starry pubescence, the margins entire, or slightly 

 toothed. Inflorescence an erect sub-corymbose raceme, becoming after 

 flowering much elongated and lax, the pedicles spreading when iu 

 fruit, erect in flower, the calyx of four equal oblong narrow pieces, 

 with a pale narrow membranous margin. Corolla of four yellow 

 broadly ovate notched petals, the claw tapering, white. Stamens with 

 awl-shaped ^/amewis and small ovate yellow anthers. Stigma obtuse, 

 nearly sessile. Fruit an erect quadrangular siliqua, somewhat 

 compressed, more or less scattered over with close pressed stellated 

 hairs. 



Habitat. — Cultivated fields, gardens, and waste places. 



Annual ; flowering in July and August. 



The seeds are bitter and acrid, and have been used for destroying 

 intestinal worms in children ; but are not now applied to any use. 

 The whole plant is bitter and acrid, and was formerly used in medi- 

 cinal compounds, but is now almost forgotten. 



2. E.iorienta'le, Broivn. (Fig. 1053.) Haie's-ear Treacle Mus.tard. 

 Leaves entire, smooth, glaucous, the radical ones oblong, the upper 

 cordate, amplexicaul; siliqua long, spreading, quadrangular; stigma 

 obtuse, sessile. 



English Flora, vol. iii. p. 202. — Hooker, British Flora, ed, 4. vol. i. 

 p. 254. — Lindley, Synopsis, p. 30. — Brassica orientalis, Linn. — 

 English Botany, t. 1804. 



Root small, tapering. Stem erect, from one to two feet high, round, 

 smooth, glaucous, simple or branched. Leaves a smooth glaucous 

 green, succulent, quite entire, the radical ones oblong, obovate, the 

 upper oblong, heart-shaped at the base, sessile, and clasping the stem. 

 Inflorescence a much elongated terminal raceme, of a few pale yellow 

 or cream-coloured flowers, the -pedicles about as long as the calyx 

 spreading. Calyx of four narrow oblong erect smooth pieces. 

 Corolla of four ovate somewhat spreading petals, tapering into a 

 narrow claw. Stamens with slender ^/amerais and small ovate anthers. 

 Stigma obtuse, sessile. Fruit a quadrangular smooth siliqua, spread, 

 ing, or somewhat curved, from two to three inches long. 



Habitat. — Fields and on cliffs near the sea, rare; Essex, Suffolk, 

 and Sussex. 



Annual; flowering in June. 



GENUS XXIV. BRAS'SICA.— Linn. Cabbage Turnip. 



Nat. Ord. Crdcif'er^. Juss. 



Gen. Char. Si%tta linear or oblong, with convex valves, having a 

 longitudinal dorsal rib, and sometimes with lateral branched 



