CABBAGE FAMILY 



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Fl. April — June. Annual or Biennial. An early-flowering and 

 at_tractive plant, with delicate green leaves and snow-white llowers, 

 but emitting a nauseous smell of garlic when gathered. It was 

 formerly used as a sauce. 



II. Ervsiimum (Treacle-mustard). — Hoary -herbs, with adpressed 

 forked hairs; leaves simple, without auricles ; pods narro-vv, linear, 



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ALLIARIA OM'ICINALIS ^Garh'i Mustar^'D- 



compressed ; valves keeled, i-veined, (Name from the Greek 

 eriu\ I draw blisters.) 



I. K. cheiranthoides (Worm-seed, Treacle-mustard). — Stem erect, 

 branched, i to 2 feet high ; leaves lanceolate, acute, slightly 

 toothed, with three-forked hairs, dull green ; flmvers small, yellow ; 

 sepals whitish ; pods i in. long, erect, on short-spreading stalks. — 

 Generally in cultivated ground; uncommon. — Tl. June — August. 

 Annual, 



