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open at the top, and two of them gibbous at the 

 bafe : the petals are yellow and vein'd : the Jili^ 

 qua are fmooth, or flightly hairy, and longer than 

 the rofirum: the feeds are acrid and fufcous, 

 eight or nine in a pod. 

 The young plants, before they flower, are boiled 

 and eaten as greens In feveral patts oi Ewjand, 



alba * 2. S. filiquis hifpidis, roftro obliquo longifllmo enfifor- 

 mi. Lin. fyft. nat, 445. 8p, pi. 933. (Ger, em. 

 244. /. 4. FeL herb. t. 45./. 10.. BlackwelL t. 29) 



White Muftard. Jnglis, 



It is fometimes found in hedges and wafle places, 

 near towns and villages, but is probably to be 

 confidered only as the outcaft of gardens. O. 

 VII. 



The flowers are yellow, the peduncles ilriated : 

 thtfiliqua are white, hairy, fhorter than the rof- 

 irum., and have generally three knobs or protu- 

 berances over the it^ds : the feeds are yellowifh, 

 acrid, and three or four in a pod. 



The feminal leaves of this plant, with thofe of tlie 

 Lepidium fativum Lin, afford a well-known fallad 

 in the fpring. 



* ^ SINAPIS filiquis glabris tetragonis racemo ap- 

 preflTis. Lin. fyft. nat.p. 445. Sp. pi. 933. {Ger. 

 em. 244./. I. Moris, hift. f 3. /. 3./. i. ordinis 

 fuperioris. Fet. herb. L 4^.f. 11. /. Bauh. IL p. 

 855, cum bona icone ^ defcriptions Blackwell t. 

 446) 



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