Class XV. 
TETRADYNAMIA. 
555 
VI botrytis Dec. 
Cauliflower 
Garden VarkUcs. 
t capilata Dec. Sugar-loaf Cabbage icaido-rapa Dec. 
Battcrsea Cabbage Penton Cabbage Chou-rave, or 
Early York Cabbage Red Cabbage, &c. &c. Kohl Rabi Brocoli, &c. &c. 
Early Dwarf Cabbage Chou-rave cr^pue, 
&c. &c. 
9245 Lvs. fleshy with glaucous bloom : the lower when young somew. hispid or ciliat. lyrate toothed j the others 
Qcordate amplexicaul acum. 
9246 Rad. leaves lyrate without glauc. bloom rough ; cauline cut : upper entire 
9247 Lvs. smooth coesious : radical lyrate ; cauline pinnatifld and cren. cord. ; upper lane, stem-clasping 
9248 Lvs. smooth coesious : radic. and lower cauline lyrate ; upper cord. lane, stem-clasping cren. Pods erect 
9249 Lvs. oval nearly entire : floral amplexicaul lane. Cal. longer than the claw of the petals 
9250 Radic. leaves fleshy smooth repand toothed, Scapes naked, Style slender distinct from silique 
9251 Leaves smooth : lower stalked obi. somewhat toothed ; upper linear ianc. few 
9252 Leaves smooth somewhat fleshy glauc. pinnated with linear distant somewhat toothed lobes 
9253 Leaves runcinate somewhat smooth. Lobes unequal bluntly sinuated, Stem hispid at base 
9254 Leaves stalked : lower sinuate pinnatifid hispid ; upper smooth toothed. Stem smooth 
9255 Rad. leaves stalked lyrate pinnatifid somewhat hispid : cauline few with entire acute lobes 
9256 Pods smooth about 4-cornered pressed to the peduncles. Lower lvs. lyrate : upper lane, entire 
/3 Pods turgid veiny diverging with a conical striated beak 
92.57 Smooth, Lvs. stalked lyrate pinnatifid with acute lobes. Petiole not auricled at base 
9278 Smooth, Lvs. ovate lane, undivided acutely toothed. Pods erect torose with a subulate style 
9259 Smooth, Lower leaves ovate lane, coarsely serrated : upper lane, entire. Branches fascicled 
9260 At the base and nerves hairy, Lvs. blunt cut pinnatifid. Lobes toothed. Pods erect pointed with the style 
9261 Smooth, Caul. lvs. cord, amplexicaul obi. entire : lower lyrate pinnatifid toothed. Pods spreading with a 
9262 Lvs. pubesc. villous lyrate pinnatifid. Terminal lobe large ovate. Pod hairy [conical beak 
92()3 Pods smooth with many angles torulose three times as long as their slender tvSifo-edged beak. Stem and lvs. 
9264 Pods hairy backwards about 4-cornered torulose shorter than the slender beak [[hairy 
926;) Pods smooth round with smooth valves twice as long as the conical beak 
92f)6 Pods smooth ovate-oblong. Valves smooth scarcely longer than conical beak 
9267 Pods smooth appressed to the raceme somew. torose. Stem branch, rough at base, Lvs. lyrate rough 
9268 Pods downy appressed to raceme somew. torose. Stem bran, rough at base, Lvs. lyrate pinn. hispid on nerves 
9269 Pods hispid spreading a little narrower than the ensiform beak, Lvs. lyrate and stem nearly smooth 
9270 Pods hispid spreading a little narrower than the ensiform beak, Lvs. lyrate rough. Stem hispid backwards 
9271 Pods suberect torulose shorter than the ensiform beak, Lvs. pinnat. Lobes narr. cut-toothed or pinnatifid 
9272 Beak compressed very rough longer than the hispid pod, Lvs. lyrate repand angular smooth 
9273 Calyx bisaccate, Lvs. coriaceous : lower oblong lane, narrowed at base somewhat toothed 
9274 Pods about 4 cornered, Cauline leaves cordate amplexicaul entire 
9275 Pods pendulous stalked. Cauline leaves oblong hispid coarsely cut-toothed 
9276 Pods pendulous sessile. Leaves obovate coarsely toothed hispid 
9277 Pods sessile nearly erect, Style ensiform, Leaves sessile runcinate lyrate toothed 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
Brassica and Raphanus genera. Both S. alba and nigra are grown as small salads to be eaten with cress ; they 
are sown as thick as the seeds will lie, in pots or boxes, or in the area of forcing-houses, in the winter season, 
and forced, or m beds m the open air, and cut as soon as the seed leaf is fully expanded. For flower of mus- 
tard, or for the seed for oil or medical purjioses, both white and black sorts are sown in the fields in rich well 
pulverized soil, in March or April, and kept free of weeds. The crop ripens in July and August, and is either 
threshed immediately or stacked like other grain. It is like other oleiferous seeds, exhausting for the soil, 
and such seeds as drop and are buried, will retain their vegetative qualities for an unknown length of time: 
so that where mustard has once been grown, it will come up occasionally for a century or more aftenvards. 
It the seeds. Dr. CuUen observes, be taken fresh from the plant and ground, the powder has little pungency, 
but IS very bitter; by steeping in vinegar, however, the essential oil is cooled, and the powder becomes ex- 
tremely pungent. In moistening mustard-powder for the table, it may be remarked, that it makes the best 
ai>pearance v/hen rich milk is used ; but the mixture in this case docs not keep good for more than two days. 
Ihe seeds of both the black and white mustard are often used in an entire state medicinally. Half or a 
quarter of a wine glass of mustard seeds, swallowed fasting, about five in the morning, is the mo.st powerful 
tonic and strcngthener of the digestive organs which is known. 
1434. Moricajtdia. Named by Decandolle, after his friend Stephen Moricand, author of the Flora Vcnetn, 
and an excellent Italian botanist. M. hesperidiflora is a favourite food of the camel, notwithctandine its 
intense acridity. ' 
1435. Diplo/axis. From hfrXos, double, and Ta|/f, arrangement, on account of the double rows of seeds in 
eai li cell. 
