CRUCIFER^. o5 



VI. Edmonton. 



VII. Camden Town; Irv. MSS. Hampstead, 1850, Syme ; Pki/t. iv. 46. 

 Chelsea ; Britten. Sandy End, Fulham. Site of International Ex- 

 hibition, South Kensington. Green Park, a weed in gardens and 

 flower-beds. Kilburn, 1862; Bromwick. 

 First record: Irvine, about 1830. It is especially abundant in land near 

 the Thames, 



BBASSICA, Li7i)i. 



S3. *B. polymorpIia« Syme. 

 Comp. 103. 



1 . B. napus, L. Navew. Winter Rape. Coleseed. 



Napus sylvestris, C. B. Piti. (Blackst.). 



Cyb. Br. i. 160 ; iii. 385. Syme E. B. i. t. 88. 



River banks and cultivated land ; common. A. or B. May — July. 



1. Harefield ; Blackst. Ease. 63. 



II. By the Thames, not unfrequent in this district. By the Thames, near 

 Hampton, 1829; Winch MSS. {' B.campestris'). Bet. Sunbury and 

 Walton Bridge. Bet. Hampton Court and Kingston Bridge. 

 III. Near Richmond bridge. Cornfields at Wood End, Hind ; Melvill, 10. 

 V. Chiswick ; Fox. Very abundant on banks of Thames from Putney 

 upwards, 1852, Syme; Pkyt. iv. 859. 

 VII. Marylebone Fields, 1815; Herb. G. # R. Kentish Town; Herb. 

 Hardw. Side of Lea, bet. Lea Bridge and Tottenham ; Cherry. 



2. B. campestris, L. Summer Rape. Colza. Swedish Turnip. 

 Cyb. Br. i. 158 ; iii. 385. Syme E. B. i. t. 89. 



Sides of Fields and road-sides ; rare. A. or B. May — July. 

 III. Twickenham, Mr. Quekctt ; Varenne. 



VII. Bet. Kentish Town and Hampstead ; behind Primrose Hill ; Herb. 

 Hardw. [All the ditch-banks about Islington ; Pet. Bof. LoniL 

 289.] 

 Hardly to be distinguished from B. napus, but a much less common 

 weed in Middlesex. We have not observed it ourselves. 



3. B. Rapa, L. B. campestris var. fi (Bab.). Turnip. 



Rapistrum aliud sylvestre non bulbosiim (Park). ? Rapum minus (Ger.). 

 Cyb. Br. i. 160 ; iii. 385. Syme E. B. i. t. 90. 

 Fields and waysides ; rare. A. or B. May — July. 

 III. Commonly at Harrow; Melvill, 10. 

 VI. Edmonton. 



VII. [Going from Shoreditch by Bethnal Green to Hackney ; Park. Thcat. 



864.] Hampstead ; Herb. Hardw. Bet. Kentish Town and Hanip- 



stead. 



This is usually found in fields where it has been cultivated, and can scarcely 



be said to be naturalised. It was cultivated in Gerarde's time near 



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