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HE flower is compofed of four petals, difpofed crofs-ways; thefe are of a heart-fathj d 
fhape, and have very flender bottoms, which are a little longer than the cup: the cupis a 
of four leaves, which are narrow, oblong, erect, and thick at the bafe ; they do not open aN era 
the whole cup falls with the flower: the feed-veffel is thick, rounded, fpungy, {welled out by mire 
in feparate parts, fo that it appears jointed, and is terminated by a long point: the feeds are aha 
rous, large, and round. 
Linnzus places this among the ¢etradynamia Jiliquofa, four of the fix threads in the flower bein 
longer than the other two, and the feed-veffel being a regular pod. 8 
He very rafhly joins under this head the raphaniftrum and cakile of authors; they properly belong- 
ing to feparate genera: we fhall fhew the diftinctions. 8 
PEUNe Tass 1} Welle 
Wild white Radifh. 
Raphanus fylveftris radice albente. 
The root is long, thick, flefhy, and perfectly 
like the connmmnon radifb of our gardens, but that 
it is white: the tafte is like it, but milder, and 
the fubftance only a little harder from its grow- 
ing in worfe ground ; fometimes it is crooked, or 
fplit from ftones in its paffage: but when it has 
free growth, any one would call it a white ra- 
difp. 
The leaves are large, long, and very deeply 
divided into a number of pairs of fegments, re- 
. fembling fo many pinn, and a roundifh piece at 
the end: they are of a dufky green, and fome- 
what rough to the touch. 
The ftalk is round, upright, fmooth, divided 
into many branches, and two feet high. 
DIVISION I. 
1, Garden-Radith. 
Raphanus vulgaris. 
This, though fo commonly cultivated among 
us, is not a native of our country. 
The root is long, flender, and flefhy, of a de- 
licate purple or redifh colour, mixed with white, 
and of a harp, pleafing tafte. 
The leaves are large, long, and in their divi- 
fion plainly pinnated: each confifts of four or 
five pairs of roundifh pinna’, with a larger alfo 
rounded at the end. 
The ftalk is round, firm, upright, and three 
feet high : it is divided into feveral branches, and 
has a few leaves placed irregularly on it. 
Thefe are compofed of narrower pinne than 
thofe from the root, and are of a paler colour. 
The flowers are very numerous, and mode, 
rately large: they ftand at the tops of the 
branches ; and are white, with a tinge of purple 
or red, more in fome, and lefs in others. , 
The feed-vefiel is thick, flefhy, or fpungy, and 
fwelled out into a kind of joints. 
The feeds are large, and of a redifh or pur- 
plifh colour: one lies in every fwelling of the 
pod, 
FOREIGN 
BORAT? ESg5S (FG eT Ree: 
The leaves on the lower part of it refemble 
thofe from the root; but thofe higher up are 
fimple, oblong, and only jagged at the edges. 
The flowers ftand at the tops of the ftalks and 
branches : they are fmall and yellow. 
The feed-veffel is thick jointed, and, while 
young and tender, is fpungy, bur it afterwards 
gets almoft a woody hardnefs, and becomes 
ftriated. , 
The feeds are round and brown, 
It is found in fome parts of Suffex, principally 
near the fea-coaft, and flowers in June. 
Ray calls it Raphanus maritimus flore luteo fili- 
quis articulatis Jecundum longitudinem eminenter 
Jtriatis. 
One would think the garden-radifh railed from 
this, but for the colour of the flower. 
SPECIES. 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Raphanus minor oblongus, 
Orhers, Raphanus fativus, and Raphanus vul. 
aris. 
2. Round black Radith. 
Raphanus radice rotundo nigro. 
The root is of the fhape and bignefs of a {mall 
turnip, black on the outfide, white within, and 
of a flefhy fubftance: it is of a firmer texture 
than the common radifb, and of a tafte not unlike 
it, but to many palates more agreeable. 
The leaves that rife from this are long, pin- 
nated, and of a black green: the feveral pinnz 
are narrower than in the common radifb, and are 
jagged at the edges, and terminate in a point. 
The ftalk is round, upright, thick, firm, and 
two feet high. 
The eaves on its lower part refemble thofe 
from the root; but thofe on the upper part are 
fmall, fimple, and only notched at the edges. 
The flowers are {mall and purplifh, but with 
fome white, and they grow at the tops of the 
ftalks and branches. 
The pods. are thick, flefhy, fpungy, 
jointed. 
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