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Cole Crops 



Yar. acephala. DC. Syst. Nat. ii, 583. 1821. Kale, Collard. 

 Plant very short to tall, the stem simple or only sparingly 

 branched : leaves various, aggregated toward the top of the 

 stem, oblong to oval to roundish in outline and lobed toward 

 the base, in some forms much crisped and curled, the midrib 

 and petiole usually thick and stout. 



Yar. gem m if era, DC. Syst. Xat. ii, 583. 1821. Brussels 

 Sprouts. Stem erect, 1% to 3 ft. tall, bearing large edible 

 buds 1 in. or so in diam. in the axils : leaves short and broad, 

 short-oblong to nearly circular, usually with one or two large 

 rounded lobes near the base but sometimes unlobed, the 

 margins of the main leaves not notched or dentate, petiole 

 not winged. 



Yar. capitata, Linn. Sp. PI. 607. Cabbage. Plant low and 

 squat, with a very short stem, producing one large compact 

 terminal head 4 to 12 in. in diam. : leaves large, spreading, 

 oblong-obovate to nearly circular, the main ones mostly unlobed 

 and the blade tapering into a short margined petiole, margins 

 undulate and more or less obscurely toothed. — A race or sub- 

 variety is Yar. sahauda, Linn. (Yar. huUata, DC), the Savoy 

 cabbages, with blistered or bullate leaves (the word sahauda 

 means Savoy an). Recently there has come into cultivation a 

 " green-glazed " cabbage, with bright green shining foliage. 



Var. botrytis, Linn. Sp. PI. 667. Broccoll Caulifloweb. 

 Plant of the stature of Yar. capitata, but bearing long-oblong 

 or elliptic mostly undivided upright or incurving leaves with 

 margins entire or minutely denticulate, and the flower-clusters 

 (malformed stems and flowers) rather than the leaves con- 

 densed into a head. — Sometimes broccoli is separated as Sub- 

 var. cymosa, Duchesne, and cauliflower as Subvar. caulifiora, 

 DC. (The word totrytis means " a bunch of grapes"; here it 

 refers to the forms in the broccoli or cauliflower head.) 



2. B. caulorapa, Pasq. Cat. Ort. Bot. Nap. 17. 1867. {B. 

 oleracea var. gongylodes, Linn. Sp. PI. 667. B. oleracea 

 var. caulorapa, DC.) Kohlrabi. Plant low and erect, 1 to 2 

 ft. tall over all, the stem thickened just above the ground 



