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erect. — Desf. ii. 93 ; Brot. i. 580 ; DC. i. 213 ; Koch 58. B. ole - 
racea and B. Botrytis Presl 88, 89. — \ ar. : 
B. acephala DC.; st. elongated branched, 1. expanded. — Sprouts 
or Winter Greens. Subvarieties, Couve de Rinchao, C. de Ba- 
tatinha, &c. 
D. capitata DC. ; st. short, 1. concave imbricate forming a dense 
globose head. — Common Cabbage. Subvar. Couve Murciana, 
C. de Repolho, C. roxa , &c. 
F. Botrytis DC. ( Brassica Botrytis Presl 89) ; fl. abortive 
and with their thickened fleshy stalks forming a compact dense 
corymb. — Subvar. Cauliflower, Brocoli , &c. Couve Flor. 
Herb. bien. Mad., PS., MD., reg. 1, 2, 3 ; B, D, ccc;,F, ■£. — 
F, cult, in gardens only ; B, D, in gardens and fields, cult, and 
partially naturalized, everywhere, throughout the year j forming 
a staple article of food amongst all classes, and a principal in- 
gredient in Portuguese Sopas. — Although the exact original 
wild stock (.Z?. oleracea A, DC. ; EB. t. 637 ; Sm. E. Fl. iii. 219 ; 
Bab. 26) does not perhaps occur, the varieties B and D are too 
commonly found seminaturalized in some form or other to allow 
of their omission in a Flora of Madeira. — L. and whole pi. per- 
fectly smooth more or less glaucous. Fl. rather large bright 
lemon-y., pale ochre, or more rarely white, not veined. Pods 
not beaked. 
2. B. NIGRA (L.) Koch. Black Mustard. Mostarda. 
L. all stalked, the lower hispid lyrate toothed with the ter- 
minal lobe very large and lobed, the upper smooth lanceolate 
very entire pendulous ; sep. spreading ; pods close-pressed to the 
st. quadrangular 2-edged shortly beaked. — Koch 59 ; Bab. ed. 1. 
24. Sinapis nigra L. Brot. i. 585 ; EB. t. 969 ; DC. i. 218 ; Sm. 
E. Fl. iii. 222 ; Presl 95 ; Bab. ed. 4. 27. S. incana Herb. Linn. 
C. Lemann in litt. S. incana (Mass.) Buch 196. no. 320 (not of 
others). — Herb. ann. Mad. reg. 1, 2 ; ccc. Borders of cornfields 
and vineyards in waste ground about Funchal, &c., everywhere. 
Febr.-June. — St. 2-3 ft. high stiffly erect straight glaucous and 
purplish nearly smooth ; branches remote straight slender with 
pendulous narrow 1. and terminal rac. giving a peculiar light 
graceful habit to the pi. when flowering. Lower 1. hispid or 
roughish, upper nearly quite smooth. Fl. bright lemon-y. Pet. 
roundish-obovate, entire. Pods half an inch long smooth toru- 
lose 1-4-seeded with a very short square slender seedless beak. 
— This is undoubtedly the pi. intended by Von Buch and others 
in their lists of Mad. pi. under the name of S. incana L. And 
in fact the late Dr. Charles Lemann found the original S. incana 
of the Linnsean Herbarium to be nothing but S. nigra L. The 
synonym has been however usually referred to a different pi., a 
specimen of which also exists in the Linn. Herb., though with- 
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