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Brassica balearica (Badar5). 
(Nat. Ord. Cruciferae) 
Brassica robertiana, 6ra?/^ Arduini. 
A variety of cabbage, grows from 4 to 
15 decim. high, with a stem which reaches 
sometimes to 3 centim. in diameter, long- 
branched or not. Glabrous in all its parts 
and inclined to sea-green. 
Leaves of the most robust specimens 
as large as those of a well grown cabbage, 
but generally smaller and very similar to 
those of common hroccolo, rather fleshy, 
the upper ones stem-clasping oblong or 
lanceolate, some hastate, more or less 
toothed, not auriculated, the lower petio- 
late, lyrate, sinuated, waved, with two or 
more leafy projections towards the base 
irregularly scattered. 
Flowers, in corymb at first, large, pale 
yellow. Sepals four, long, oval, or elliptical; 
petals as long again as the sepals, obovate, 
with long peduncle, erect; stamens rather 
longer than the sepals. 
Siliqua cylindrical, rather flattened per- 
