CABBAGE FAMILY 



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Fl. April — June. Annual or Biennial. An early-flowering and 

 attractive plant, with delicate green leaves and snow-white flowers, 

 but emitting a nauseous smell of garlic when gathered. It was 

 formerly used as a sauce. 



- ii. Erysimum (Treacle-mustard). — Hoary herbs, with adpressed 

 forked hairs ; leaves simple, without auricles ; pods narrow, linear, 



ALLiAria officinalis {Garlic Mustardy. 



compressed ; valves keeled, i -veined. (Name from the Greek 

 eruo, I draw blisters.) 



i. E. cheiranthoides (Worm-seed, Treacle-mustard). — Stem erect, 

 branched, i to 2 feet high ; leaves lanceolate, acute, slightly 

 toothed, with three-forked hairs, dull green ; flowers small, yellow ; 

 sepals whitish ; pods 1 in. long, erect, on short-spreading stalks. — 

 Generally in cultivated ground; uncommon. — Fl. June — August. 

 Annual. 



