ORtJCIFEKJE. 



87 



forked. Pod 3 or 4 lines in diameter; the 

 abortive article or stalk within the calyx 

 about a line long or rather more. 



In maritime sands and stony places, 

 along the western coasts of Europe, and 

 on the Baltic, reappearing on the Black 

 Sea. In Britain, rather thinly scattered 

 along the coasts of England, of Ireland, 

 and of the Scotch lowlands, becoming 

 more scarce northwards. Introduced 

 into our gardens last century, from De- 

 vonshire. Fl. early summer. 



XXVIII. RADISH. KAPHANUS. 



Coarse, often hairy annuals or biennials ; the lower leaves pinnatifid 

 or pinnate, the flowers rather large. Pod more or less elongated, thick, 

 pointed, indehiscent, more or less contracted or even jointed between 

 the seeds, without any longitudinal partition when ripe, but containing 

 several seeds, separated by a pithy substance filling the pod. Radicle 

 incumbent on the back of the cotyledons, which are folded over it. 



A genus well characterized by the pod, but consisting of very few 

 species, or perhaps only of several more or less permanent races of 

 one species. The most distinct form, our garden Radish, is unknown 

 in a wild state, but some varieties of the wild one, on the coasts of the 

 Mediterranean, come so near to it as to suggest the possibility that it 

 may be but a cultivated race of the same species, although placed by 

 some botanists in a distinct genus. 



1. Wild Radish. Raphanus Raphanistrum, Linn. 

 (Fig. 111.) 



(Eng. Bot. t. 856. Jointed Charlock.) 



An erect or spreading annual or biennial, 1 to 2 feet high, much 



