CRUCIFERili 



2.* E. fcrfolidtii/ii (Hare's-ear Treacle-mustard), with glaucous 

 oval /twf't'-s' and creaai-coloured //'^ztw'^, occurs as an escape. — Fl. 

 May — July. Annual. 



12. Drassica (Cabbage). — Herbs, with long racemes of con- 

 spicuous fhnvers, with sepals 

 erect, and long, nearly cylin- 

 dric pod, and seeih in one row. 

 (Name, the Latin name for 

 cabbage.) 



1. B. okrdaa (Wild Cab- 

 bage).^ — KkizovK stout, 

 branched ; braju-lics usually 

 decumbent, tortuous, fleshy; 

 leaves glabrous, glaucous, ob- 

 tuse, often a foot across ; 

 raa-iiu's elongated ; flo-wers i 

 in. across, pale yellow ; pods 

 2 3 in. long, beak subulate. 

 — Sea-cliffs ui the south and 

 west. -Fl. May — ^Yugust. Bi- 

 eiuiial. The original of all the 

 varieties of garden cabbage, 

 including broccoli, cauliflower, 

 kohlrabi, i\:c. 



2. B. ui/npes/n's (Xavew). — 

 A group-name for a series of 

 weed's occurring in cultivated 

 grouhd, probably not wild, ac- 

 cording to Sir Joseph Hooker, 

 "in this or any other country." 

 — RaJiail leaves lyratel)-pin- 

 nate, dentate ; eaiiline leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate, acute, auri- 

 cled, aniple.xicaul ; raee/iies 

 cor)iiibose. — Fl. June — Sep- 

 trnil)('r. This group includes 

 7>'. Adpus (Rape or Cole-seed), 



with a fusiform rcial, and all its /caves gla„brous and glaucous, and 

 yellow Jlawers, which is cultivated for the sake of the Colza and 

 Carcel oil pressed from its seeds, the refijse being used, under the 

 name of oil-cake, for feeding cattle ; B. A'l/liil'dga (Swede), with a 

 turni[)-shaped rac/l and all its /ivrr't'j- glaucous, the radical ones 

 hispid and the cauline ones glabrous, and hud plovcers, the roots 



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