10 On the different Species, §c of the Genus Brassica, 



as Brassica rubra, which name is given by the moderns to 

 the red variety of the round Cabbage * The third variety of 

 the Cavalier is, Brassica quercifolia, Chou a f entiles cle chene ; 

 (Oak-leaved Cabbage), nearly resembling the next variety, the 

 Chou frange'. Different gardeners assure me that they have 

 even seen these Cabbages change from one to the other. 

 Their mode of incisure, however, being distinctly character- 

 ised, I do not think proper to confound them. In the Chou 

 a feuilles de chene, the lobes are deep, broad-oblong, plain, 

 and entire, or nearly so ; the extremities not irregularly scol- 

 loped, nor the foliage inclined to a reddish hue ; it is uniformly 

 of a pale green ; this variety is far from being generally 

 cultivated/I* The fourth variety is the \Brassica fimbriata, 

 Chou frange,^ (fringed Cabbage,) remarkable for its nume- 

 rous lobes, the edges of which, from being much and closely 

 cut, have the appearance of a fringe ; the depth, the number, 

 and form of these incisures vary considerably, and have given 

 rise to as many different names. Chou vert f rise, Chou f rise, 

 Chou frange du Nord, Chou frise non pomme, Chou frise 

 d Allemagne, may be all referred to this variety. The 



* The Chou caulet de Flandres is described in the Bon Jardinier for 1821, page 

 145, as differing only from the others by the red colour of its leaves, and may 

 therefore be taken as the red sub-variety of the common Cavalier Cabbage. Sec. 



f The tall Cabbage known generally in England under the name of Chou de 

 Milan, and described in Mr. Morgan's Paper before alluded to (Horticultural 

 Transactions, Vol. ii. page 315,) is probably a sub-variety of the Chou a feuilles 

 de chene. Sec. 



X Brassica Sabellica. De Candolle, Reg. Veg. Syst. Nat. Vol. ii. page 584. 



§ The Green Borecole, or Scotch Kale of the English Gardens, (see Morgan 

 in Transactions of the Horticultural Society, Vol. ii. page 3 1 2,) is evidently 

 this variety ; and the Purple Borecole of the English, or Brown Kale of the 

 Germans, also described by Mr. Morgan, is a coloured sub-variety of the same. 

 Sec. 



