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of which are used as cattle-food ; and B. Rdpa (Turnip), wiih 

 turnip sh:iped root, loiuer leaves hispid but not glaucous, upper 

 leaves glaucous and glabrous, and bright yellow flowers, which is 

 perhaps the most truly wild and ancestral form. 



3. B. monensls (Isle of Man Cabbage). — Rliizome .stout, woody; 

 stem 6 — 24 in. high, usually prostrate; leaves mostly radical, 

 glabrous, deeply pinnatifid ; ploivers bright lemon-yellow, veined 

 with purple. — Sandy sea-shores on the west coast of Lritain ; rare. 

 — Fl. Way — August. P'erennial. 



4. B. Cheirdiithtis (Jersey 

 Cabbage) is an allied species, 

 found in the Channel Islands, 

 differing in having an erect 

 leafy stem, 1—3 feet high and 

 hispid leeives. 



13. Sin.4pi3 (Mustard). — 

 Herbs, annual or biennial, very 

 similar to the Cabbages ; but 

 with spreadmg sepals. (Name 

 from the Greek j-/«(?/>/,mustard.) 



1. 5. nigra (Black Mustard). 

 — Stem 2 — 3 feet high, branch- 

 ed, hispid ; lower leaves large, 

 rough, lyrate ; ipper leaves 

 linear-lanceolate, stalked gla- 

 brous; Jloioers J- — TT in. across, 

 yellow ; poels erect, adpressed, 

 4-angled, glabrous, beak short, 

 subulate. — Fl. June— August. 

 Annual. Its seeds yield table 

 mustard. 



2. S. adpressa, growing in 

 sandy places in the Channel Islands, is more branched and has 

 very short pods. 



3. S. arvensis (Wild Mustard, Charlock). — Hispid; leaves 

 lyrately pinnatifid, rough ; floivers sub-corymbose, \ — f in. across, 

 bright yellow ; pods spreading, linear, many-angled, generally 

 hispid, 1-5 — 2 in. long, constricted. — A common weed in corn- 

 fields, sometimes springing up in profusion from recently disturbed 

 ground, though previously unknown there. — Fl. jNIay — August. 

 Armual. 



4. iS. alba CWhile Mustard). — Hispid Njith reflexed hairs; 

 fio'ivers \ in. across, yellow; pods spreading, 2 in. long, hispid 



bl.wuis ARvh^si^ {Jl^iA/ J/itstard^ Charlock). 



