Class XV. TETRADYNAMI A. 557 
0278 Pods sess nearly erect, Style roundish 1-2-seed. Lvs. pinnatif. with cut lobes and lin. sinuate toothed segm. - 
9279 Pods somewhat stalked erect, Style filif. short without seeds. Upper lvs. entire lower pinnatifid compound 
9280 Pods sess. erect. Style short somew, filif. Rad. lvs. toothed or lyrate smooth. Stems nearly naked ascending 
0281 Pods sess erect. Style short somew. filif. Rad. lvs. runcinate toothed hispid. Stems naked erect 
0282 Pods sess! erect. Style short somew. filif Rad. lvs. lyrate very blunt smooth, Stenis naked decumbent 
9283 Pods sess. erect narrowed at base. Style short conical, Rad. lvs. pinnatifid thickish with entire lobes 
9284 Lvs lyrate pinnated with toothed acute lobes, Stem hirsute. Pedicels shorter than deciduous calyx 
9285 Lvs.' pinnatifid. Lobes acute nearly entire. Stem hirsute. Calyx persi-stent somewhat bladdery 
9286 The only species 1 
9287 The only species 
9288 The only species 
9289 The only species 
9290 The only species 
9291 Long filaments forked. Pod blunt, Leaves roundish sinuated wavy toothed glauc. and stem quite smooth 
9292 LonI filaments forked. Pod blunt, Leaves pinnatifid with obi. acute toothed lobes. Stem smooth 
Q293 Lone filaments forked. Pod blunt smooth, Leaves pinnatifid toothed rough. Stem smooth [smoothish 
9294 Long filam. forked. Pod blunt, Rad. lvs. decompound, Pinn^ cut toothed : younger rough ; old and stem 
9295 LonI filam forked. Pod blunt rugose, Lvs. pinnated with obi. lin. toothed lobes and stem rough 
9296 Long filam forked. Pod nearly blunt, Lvs. stalked toothed : lower cord.; upper ov. and stem nearly smooth 
9297 Long filam. toothed. Pod blunt, Lvs. lyrate rough, Terminal lobe cord, orbicular 
9298 Long filam. scarcely toothed, Pod blunt, Lvs. pinnate-lyrate hairy. Terminal lobe ovate 
Q299 Long filam. toothed on one side. Pod mucronate, Lvs. lyrate pinnatifid toothed hoary 
9300 Filam. not toothed. Pod mucronate, Lvs. ov. toothed unequal and somew. auriclcd at base and stem hispid 
9301 Pods round torose acuminate scarcely longer than stalk 
9302 Pods denressed acuminate decumbent longer than the whole plant 
9303 Pods 1-celled jointed striated 3-8-seeded longer than the style, Lvs. simply lyrate 
9304 Pods 1-celled jointed substriated 2.6-seeded longer than the subulate style, Lvs. interruptedly lyrate 
9305 Pods 1-celled jointed striated 2-6-seeded, Style conical shorter than the last joint, Lvs. interrupted, lyrate 
and Miscellaneous Particulars. 
and gravel, in March and April j when they cut them off under ground, as is done in gathering asparagus, and 
boil them as greens. About the middle of the last century the plant was first introduced into gardens, grown 
on deep sandy soil, and blanched either by sand, ashes, litter, or by covering with flower pots, earthen pots 
made on purpose, or any opaque cover. It is now almost as universal in good gardens as asparagus, and like 
it is forced either by taking up the roots and planting them on a hotbed, or in the border of a forcing house, 
or by covering or surrounding them with litter in the open garden. Before covering a bed with warm litter, 
each plant or stool of plants is covered with an earthenware blanching pot, or a wicker case, to keep off the 
dung from the young shoots, and to ensure their being blanched. No plant is so easily forced ; and, unlike 
asparagus, it yields produce the first spring after raising from seed. 
C. tataria is called by the Hungarians Tatar-Kenyer or Tartarian bread, and its root, stripped of the ba-rk 
and sliced, is eaten with oil, vinegar, and salt. The boiled root is sweet, and eaten by children. The young 
shoots are boiled like those of sea kail, and have an excellent taste, but are stringy, vvhich they would not be 
if well cultivated, which the plant appears to deserve. 
1443. Raphanus. From pa, quickly, and (potivofjMf, to appear, on account of the rapidity of its germination 
and arriving at perfection. R. sativus is a well known salad root, requiring a deep sandy soil to attain a large 
size. There are several varieties both of the spindle-shaped and globular rooted kinds, and a very distinct 
sort known as the black or Spanish radish. In the Horticultural Transactions, sixteen varieties are men- 
tioned besides subvarieties, arranged as spring, summer, turnip, autumn, and winter radishes. They are all 
of easy culture, and the spring, summer, and turnip sorts force well on hot-beds, or on dung-beds covered 
with mats. 
R. caudatus, or tree radish, is remarkable for the length of its pod, which is greater than the whole height 
of the plant. The young leaves of R. Landra are eaten by the inhabitants of Insubria as salad. 
