218 TETRADYNAMIA— SILIQUOSA. Brassica. 



Rapa sativa rotunda. Bauh. Pin. 8^. Rail Syn. 294. Moris, v. 2. 



213. sect. 3. t.2.f. 1. 

 Rapum. Trag. Hist. 728./. Dod. Pempt. 673./. Camer. Epit. 



218./ 

 R. sativum. Fuchs. Hist. 212. f. 

 R. rotundum. Matth. Falgr. v. \. 394. f. 

 R. majus. Ger. Em. 232./ 

 Round Turnep. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 45. f. 7. 

 /3. Rapa sativa oblonga,seu fixmina. Bauh. Pin. 90. Rail Syn. 294. 



Moris. V. 2. 213. sect. 3. t. 2./ 2. 

 Rapum longum. Matth. Valgr.v. 1. 395./ Camer. Epit.2\9.f. 

 R. radice oblonga. Ger. Em. 232. f. 

 Long Turnep. Petiv. H. Brit. t. 45./ 8. 



In cultivated fields and their borders, more or less completely na- 

 turalized. 



Biennial. April. 



Root orbicular, mostly depressed, in /3 oblong ; always succulent, 

 white, or tinged with purple, varying greatly in size according 

 to the soil ; tapering and fibrous at the base. Stem erect, 2 feet 

 high, branched, leafy, round, very smooth. Radical leaves abun- 

 dant the first season, withering as the stem arises, lyrate, jagged, 

 large, dark green, veiny, rough with small sharp bristly hairs ; 

 those on the lower part of the stem more simple, smoother, 

 clasping at the base ; upper ones small, glaucous, quite smooth 

 and entire. Fl. yellow, larger than the preceding, in numerous 

 corymbose tufts. Cal. spreading considerably in the upper part, 

 though not at the base. Pet. rounded. Pod cylindrical, veiny, 

 smooth, with a tapering barren beak. 



The Swedish Turnip, not wild in Britain, is surely a distinct spe- 

 cies from this and the following, as Mr. Knight has proved it to 

 be from B. oleracea. Both these turnips are well known for their 

 agricultural uses, and are acceptable at table, if not grown in a 

 rank or manured soil. 



3. B. campestris. Common Wild Navew. 



Root tapering. Radical leaves lyrate, rough; stem- leaves 

 smooth, clasping, oblong, partly pinnatifid ; all somewhat 

 glaucous. 



B. campestris. Linn. Sp. PL 931. mild. v. 3. 546. Fl. Br. 718. 



Engl. Bot. v. 32. t. 2234. Hook. Scot. 203. DeCand. Syst. r. 2, 



588. A. Scholl. Barb. 153. 

 Napus sylvestris. Raii Syn. ed. 2. 167. ed. 3. 295 ; but not of 



Bauhin or Morison. 

 Wild Navew. Petiv. H. Brit. L45.f.9; copied from Lobel's cut of 



B. Napus. 



In corn fields and about the banks of ditches. Ray. 



Abundant by the sides of rivers, marsh ditches, &c. Mr. E. Forsfer. 



