CABBAGE FAMILY 



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kai'is, and rather large straw-coloured or white flois'ers veined 

 with purple ; well distinguished when in seed by its long-beaked 

 pods, which have from 3 — 7 one-seeded joints. Cornfields. — Fl. 

 May — September. Annual. This is the original of the garden 

 radish. 



2. R. niaritimtis (Sea Radish). — Leaves composed of small and 

 large segments arranged alternately (interruptedly pinnatifid) ; 

 fiowers smaller, yellow, rarely white ; pod with 2 — 4 joints, deeply 



C.\KILK MARiTJ^IA {Purpic Sca Rock^t). 



constricted. — Sea-cliffs in the south and we_pt ; rare. — Fl. July, 

 August. Biennial. 



Ord. VII. — ResedacEjE. — Mignonette Family 



Herbaceous or somewhat shrubby plants, w'ith scattered stipu- 

 late leaves, and tht'vc Jfoiuei-s in bracteate racemes. Sepals 4 — 7, 

 persistent ; petals 4 — 7 ; disk large, hypogyno'us ; stamens 10 — 24, 

 inserted on the disk ; oi'a?-]- of 3 united carpels, i-chamhered, 

 opening at the summit ; stigma 3-lobed, sessife ; seeds many, on 3 

 parietat placentas ; fruit a capsule. Most mfeprbers of the Order 



