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Th BRITISH HERBAL. 
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The feeds are large, roundifh, and dark co- 
loured. 
It Is a native of Italy, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Raphanus major orbiculatus 
five rotundus. Others, Raphanus rotundus niger. 
Linneus fuppofes it only a variety of the com- 
mon vadifo ; but this contradiéts reafon, 
3. Long, Jagged leaved black Radifh, 
Raphanus foliis laciniatis radice longo nigro. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with a 
few fibres : it is black on the outfide, white with- 
in, and of a pleafing tafte: in fhape it fomewhat 
refembles the common garden-radifb ; but it dif: 
fers altogether in colour, flavour, and fubftance : 
in all thefe refpects it approaches more to the na- 
ture of the round, black radifh; but in the 
leaves it differs both from that and the other in 
the moft obvious and diftin& manner; fo that al- 
though confounded by Linnzeus with the other as 
a variety of the common radifh, it is plainly a dif- 
tinct fpecies. 
The leaves are long, large, and deeply jagged : 
the fegments are placed irregularly two or three 
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on each fide, but not in pairs, and the ribs 
of the leaf between them is jagged : they are 
alfo nicked at the edges, as is the terminating 
fegment, and all of them are tharp-pointed, 
The ftalk is round, upright, firm, of a pale 
green, and a yard high. : 
The leaves on it are few, and placed irregu- 
larly ; but they refemble thofe from the root in 
form, and are rough to the touch, and of a pale 
green. 
The flowers grow at the tops of the ftalks and 
branches, on branched footttalks : they are large, 
whitifh, with a tinge of red, and quickly fall, 
The feed-veffel is thick, rounded, fpungy, and 
jointed : the feeds are large, roundifh, and brown. 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Raphanus niger. Others, 
Raphanus niger radice pyriformi., 
The qualities of all thefe radifhes are the fame, 
and they are more ufed at table than in medicine, 
They work by urine, and are faid to be fweet- 
eners of the blood, and good againft the feurvy , 
but they will agree with few ftomachs. 
XII. 
BASTARD RADISH. 
RAPHANISTRUM. 
'HE flower is compofed of four petals, difpofed regularly crofs-ways one to another; thefe are 
broad, and have very fhort and very flender bottoms, 
compofed of four little, oblong leaves, thick at the bafe, 
a little longer than the cup: the cup is - 
and ftanding clofe. The feed-veffel is a 
jointed pod, and, when ripe, it naturally breaks at the Joints, and lets out the feeds; and it is not 
fpungy, as in the radifh. 
Linneus places this among the tetradynamia Siliquofa, 
longer than the other two, and the feed. veffel bein 
and diftin&tive name, making it a fpecies of radi. 
being jointed, and feparating naturally at the joints: the radifo, 
other genera of this clafs, in the pods being fpungy. That character it poffeffes alone, 
diftinguifhed from this genus; as this is from all others, by the jointed ftructure, 
ration of the pod. 
As we have no proper Englith name for this genus, 
four of the fix threads in the fower being 
g§ 4 regular pod ; but he takes away its eftablifhed 
From this it differs in the fingularity of the pods, 
in the fame manner, differs from all 
and is by it 
and naturally fepa- 
baftard radifo being a compound and improper 
one, and fome of the fpecies being called by authors otherwife improperly, it will be beft to retain 
the Latin name raphiftrum. 
DIVISION L 
1. White-flowered Raphaniftrum. 
Raphaniftrum flore albo filiqua articulata. 
The root is long, flender, white, and fur- 
nifhed with many fibres. 
The leaves that rife from it are large, oblong, 
and broad, and have long, thick footftalks : they 
are compofed, as it were, of one pair of pinnae, 
and a large piece at the end; and their colour is 
a deep green: they are rough to the touch, and 
fomewhat hairy. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, weak, hairy, 
upright, and very much branched. * . 
The leaves are placed irregularly on them; and 
refemble thofe from the root: they are rough, 
and of a fomewhat paler green. 
BRETISH She GLUES 
The flowers are large, white, and ulually 
{treaked with red, or a pale purple: they are not 
unlike fome of the fmall fingle ftock-julyflowers. 
The feed-veffel is long, flender, and jointed : 
it is not hairy, as the reft of the plant, but per- 
feétly fmooth ; and, when the feeds are ripe, it 
drops to pieces at the joints: the feeds are round 
and brown. 
It is common in corn-fields, and flowers in 
July. ay 
C.Bauhine calls it Raphanifirum fiore albo fili- 
qua articulata ; aname ufed by motft others. We 
call it commonly W4ite-flowered charlock, with a 
Jointed pod :* but this is very improper, for char- 
lock is a fpecies of muftard. 
* “2, Yellow- 
