The BRITISH HERBAL. 
The feeds are large, roundilh, and dark co- 
loured. 
It Is a native of Italy, and flowers in July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Rapbanus major orbiculatus 
five rolundus. Others, Raphanus rolunduj niger. 
Linnsus fuppofes it only a variety of the com- 
mon radijh ; but this contradids reafon. 
3. Long, jaggsd leaved black Radifh; 
Raphanus foliis laciniatis radice longo nigro. 
The root is long, thick, and furnifhed with a 
few fibres : it is black on the outfide, white with- 
in, and of a pleafing tafle : in fliape it fomewhac 
refembles the common garden-radijh % but it dif- 
fers altogether in colour, flavour, and fubftance : 
in all thefe refpeds it approaches more to the na- 
ture of the round, black radilh ; but in the 
leaves it differs both from that and the other in 
the moft obvious and diftind manner 1 fo that al- 
though confounded by Linnsus with the other as 
a variety of the common radijh, it is plainly a dif- 
tin£t fpecies. 
The leaves are long, large, and deeply jagged : 
the fegments are placed irregularly two or three 
on each fide, hut not in pairs, -and the ribs 
of the leaf between them is jagged : they are 
alfo nicked at the edges, as is the terminating 
fegmcnt, and all of them are fliarp-pointcd. 
The ftalk is round, upright, firm, of a pale 
green, and a yard high. 
The Leaves on it are few, and placed irregu- 
larly i but they refemble thofe from the root in 
form, and are rough to the touch, and of a pale 
green. 
The flowers grow at the tops of the flalks and 
branches, oii branched footftalks : they are large, 
whitifh, with a tinge of red, and quickly fall. 
The f^^ed-veflel is thick, rounded, fpuugy, and 
jointed : the feeds are large, roundilh, and brown. 
It is a native of Spain, and flowers in June. 
C. Bauhine calls it Raphanus niger. Others, 
Raphanus niger radice pyrifornn.^ 
The qualities of all thefe radiihes are the fame, 
and they are more ufed at table than in medicine. 
They work by urine, and are faid to be fweet- 
eners of the blood, and good againft the fcurvy j 
1 but they will agree with few ftomachs. 
GENUS XII. 
BASTARD RADISH. 
RJPHJNIS'TRUM. 
^HE flower is compofed of four petals, difpofed regularly crofs-ways one to another i thefe are 
broad, and have very fhort and very flender bottoms, a little longer than the cup : the cup is 
compofed of four little, oblong leaves, thick at the bafe, and Handing clofe. The fced-vcflrl is a 
jointed pod, and, when ripe, it naturally breaks at the joints, and lets out tiie feeds j and it is not 
ipungy, as in the radifh. 
LinnjEUs places this among the tetradynamia ftliquofa, four of the fix threads in the flower being 
longer than the other two, and the feed veflrl being a regular pod ; but he takes away its eftabliflied 
and diftindive name, making it a fpecies of radijh. From this it differs in the fingularity of the pods, 
being jointed, and feparacing naturally at the joints : the radijh^ in the fame manner, differs from all 
other genera of this clafs, in the pods being fpungy. That charafler it pofl'efl'es alone, and is by it 
diftinguifhed from this genus j as this is from all others, by the jointed ftrufturc, and naturally fepa- 
ration of the pod. 
As we have no proper Englifli name for this genus, hajtard radijh being a compound and improper 
one, and fome of the fpecies being called by authors otherwife improperly, it will be beft to retain 
the Latin name raphijirum. 
DIVISION L BRITISH SPECIES. 
1. White- flowered Raphanifl:rum. 
Raphanijlrtim Jlore albo filiqua articulata. 
The root is long, flender, white, and fur- 
niflied with many fibres. 
The leaves that rife from it are large, oblong, 
and broad, and have long, thick footftalks : they 
are compofed, as it were, of one pair of pinns, 
and a large piece at the end ; and their colour is 
a deep green : they are rough to the touch, and 
fomewhat hairy. 
The ftalks are numerous, round, weak, hairy, 
upright, and very much branched. 
The leaves are placed irregularly on them, and 
refemble thofe from the root: they are rough, 
and of a fomewhat paler green. 
The flowers are large, white, and ulually 
ftreaked with red, or a pale purple : they are not 
unlike fome of the fmall fingle ftock-julyflowers. 
The feed-veflcl is long, flender, and jointed : 
it is not hairy, as the reft: of the plant, but per- 
feiSly fmooth ; and, when the feeds are ripe, it 
drops to pieces at the joints : the feeds are round 
and brown. 
It is common in corn-fields, and flowers in 
July. 
C. Bauhine calls it Raphanijirum Jlcre albo fili- 
qua articulata \ a name ufed by moft others. We 
call it commonly IVhite fiowercd charlock^ with a 
jointed pod : but this is very improper, for char- 
lock is a fpecies of muflard, 
2. Yellow- 
