26 6. CRUCIFER^. 



1 1 . Alliaria Adans. Sauce-alone. 



1. A. officinalis (Andrzj.) ; 1. heartshaped the lower ones reni- 

 form sinuate-dentate all stalked, pods erect- patent much longer 

 than their stalks, seeds oblong subcylindrical striated. — E. B. 

 796. R. ii. 60. Sisymbrium Alliaria Sm., Koch.— St. erect, 

 1 — 3 feet high, shghtly branched. L. large, thin, veined, smell- 

 ing like garlic when bruised. Fl. white. — Hedgebanks. B. V. 

 VI. Jack-by-the-Hedge. 



12. Erysimum Linn. Worm-seed. 



1. E. ckeiranthoides (L.) ; 1. oblong-lanceolate slightly toothed 

 with stellate-tripartite hairs, all narrowed into a slight footstalk, 

 pedicels longer than the calyx 2 or 3 times shorter than the pods, 

 pods patent ascending, seeds small many. — E. B. 942. R. ii. 83. 

 — Seeds very small, so many in the pod as to be nearly 2-rowed. 

 Fl. small. Pods always diverging from the stem. — Cultivated 

 ground. Wild in the Fens. B. VI.— VIII. E. I. 



*2. E. orientale (R. Br.) ; I. elliptical heartshaped obtuse 

 clasping the stem, radical 1. obovate, all smooth glaucous undi- 

 vided entire. — E. B. 1804. R. ii. 61. — Fl. white or cream-coloured. 

 — " Fields and cliffs near the sea." A. V.— VII. E. I. 



Tribe III. Brassicea. 



13. Brassica Linn. 

 " Valves of pod \ -ribbed. 



1. B. oleracea (L.) ; 1. glabrous glaucous waved and lobed, 

 lower 1. lyrate, upper I. oblong sessile. — E. B. 637. R. ii. .97. — • 

 L. thick and somewhat fleshy. Stam. all erect. Fl. large, cream- 

 coloured. Raceme elongated before the fl. expand. Cal. erect, 

 adpressed. The wild state of the garden Cabbage. — Cliffs by the 

 sea. B.VI.— Vm. Wild Cabbage. 



2. B. campestris (L.) ; lower I. lyrate dentate somewhat hispid, 

 upper I. ovate acuminate deeply cordate amplexicaul glabrous. 

 ■ — E. B. 2234. — " Raceme close, the open fl. rising above the 

 buds." Fl. yellow.— ^. B. Rapa (L.) ; root caulescent fleshv. 

 E. B. 2176. R. ii. 96.— Borders of fields. A. or B. VI. VII. 

 Wild Navew. fi. Turnip. 



3. B. Napus (L.); lower I. lyrate dentate glabrous, upper I. 

 oblong somewhat narrowed below with a dilated cordate semiam- 

 plexicaul base.—E. B. 2146. R. ii. 93.—" Raceme elongated at 

 the time when the fl. expand. Shorter stam. patent, ascending." 

 Fl. yellow. It is difficult to find any character by which to di- 



