HEDGE-MUSTARD. 



Sisymbritim officinale. Nat. Ord., Crucifera. 



NATTRACTIVE as the hedge- 

 mustard must be considered 

 when we compare it with some 

 of the other plants of our series 

 the sweet-briar, the broom, or 

 theyellow water-lily its extreme 

 abundance gives it by right a 

 place amongst the most familiar 

 of our familiar wild flowers. By 

 almost every roadside, and on 

 almost every piece of waste 

 ground, we may reasonably ex- 

 pect to find the hedge-mustard, 

 though its name is so far a mis- 

 nomer that the plant rarely ex- 

 changes these bare and dry 

 localities for a place in the fresh 

 verdure of the hedgerow. The plant is an annual, and 

 flowers during June, July, and August. The hedge-mus- 

 tard is an excellent illustration of the great diversity of 

 appearance which plants may assume at different periods 

 of their growth. Any one unfamiliar with it, and viewing 

 it first when it was just coming into flower, and then again 

 when its flowering branches had elongated, would scarcely 

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