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witli Stellate-tripartite hairs, all narrowed into a slight foot- 

 stalk, pedicels longer than the calyx 2- or .3-fold shorter than 

 the pods,_ped. patent, pods suberect, seeds small many. — K B. 

 9-li!. R. ii. 83. — Seeds very small, so many in the pod as to he 

 nearly 2-rowed. Fl. small. — OLdtivated ground, rare. Wild 

 in the Fen country. B. VI.— VIII. E. 



\_E. orientdle (R. Br.) ; I. oval-Jieartshaped blunt clasping the 

 stem, radical 1. obovate, all smooth glaucous undivided entire. 

 — £. B. 1804. R. ii. 61. — Fl. white or cream-coloured. — Fields. 

 Introduced. A. V.— VU.] E. 



Tribe III. Brassicece. 



12. Beas'sica Linn. 



* Valves of pods \-rihhed. 



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

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

 Rootstock stout, branched. St. thick, persistent, usually decum- 

 bent. L. very large, thick, somewhat fleshy. Fl. large, cream- 

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

 adpressed. The wild state of the garden cabbage.— Sea-clifl's 

 in South and West. B. VI.— VUI. Wild Cabbage. E. S. ? I. 



2. B. oampes'tris (L.) ; radical 1. glaucous hispid lyrate-den- 

 tate, st.-l. glabrous ovate-lanceolate auricled clasping, fl. sub- 

 corymbose. — 0. B. Rapa (L.) not glaucous. — Both are probably 

 wild states of the true Turnip and hardly, if at all, distinguish- 

 able. See Watson and Dyer in J. of B. ■vii. viii. and ix. — Fields 

 and riverbanks. A. or B. VII. Vlll. E. 



\B. Ndpus (L.); radical I. glabrous glaucous lyrate, st.-L 

 lanceolate auricled clasping, fl. racemose. — An escape from 

 cultivation. I cannot distinguish this from Sp. 2. See J. of B. 

 ix. IQS.] 



** Valves of pod S-ribbed ; beak 1 — 3-seeded. 



3. B. monen'sis (R. Br.) ; 1. stalked all deeply pinnatifid, lobes 

 oblong unequally toothed those of the upper 1. linear. — E. B. 

 962. — Fl. yellow. St. usually prostrate, glabrous. L. glabrous. 

 — /3. B. Cheiranthtis (Vill.) ; st. 1 — 3 ft. high erect leaiy hispid 

 below, 1. hispid. Sinapis, E. B. & 2821. — On the western 

 coasts, rare. B. or P. VI.— VIII. E. S. 



13. Sina'pis Linn. Mustard. 



1. S. nigra (L.); poda q[uadrangular adpressed, beak short 



