PL ex, trial, 80. CRUCIFERiE. 428. Brassica. 683 
Cultivated. 
Root nutritive, used as a potherb; seeds yield much oil, 
used in woolcombing and for other purposes; oil-cakes 
fatten cattle, and are also used as manure. 
2. Brassica sphcerorhiza . Roundrooted colewort. 
Root stemforming, orbicular, flattened, fleshy; root-leaves 
Jyrate, rough ; stem-leaves not in the least cut. 
Rapa sativa rotunda, Raii Syn. 294, 1. 
Rapum majus, Ger.em. 232, 1. 
Brassica Rapa, Lin. S. P . 9.31. 
Sinapis Rapa, Stokes Bot. Mat. Med. 478. 
Turnep. Rape. Knolles. 
Edges of fields, also cultivated, in light soils; biennial ; 
April. 
Root fleshy ; stem upright, smooth, branched ; root-leaves 
rough, dark green ; stem-leaves smooth, rather glaucous ; 
siliquce cylindrical. — Roots nutritive to man and cattle, 
either raw or dressed ; rind slightly acrid ; juice of the 
root with sugar used in colds and hoarsenesses, also fer- 
mented for a common sort of cyder; seeds pressed for oil; 
young shoots used for sallads, or as a potherb. 
0. ollonga. Root oblong. 
Rapa sativa oblonga, seu foemina, Raii Syn. 294,2. 
Rapa rarlice oblonga, Ger. em. 232, 2. 
Long-rooted iurneps. 
3. Brassica olerQcea. Pot colewort . 
Root stemforming, cylindrical, fleshy; leaves bald, glau* 
cous, repand or lobed. 
Brassica maritima arborea seu procerior raraosa, Raii Syn. 293, 1. 
Brassica oleracea a, Lin. S. P. 932. 
Sea cabbage. Sea colewort. 
Cliffs by the sea, also cultivated ; biennial ; May, June. 
Leaves rough, unequally toothed ; flowers yellow; siliquce 
torulose. — Roots eatable, but not so tender as those of 
turnep; leaves eatable, when wild require boiling in two 
waters to remove the saltness; and when cultivated required 
to be blanched, by being kept from the light. 
0. viridis, Leaves white with a glaucous tinge. 
Brassica vulgaris sativa, Ger. em. 312, 1. 
Brassica sativa, Park. 268. 
Garden coleworts. 
y. sulrubens. Leaves red. 
Brassica rubra, Ger. em. 312, 3. 
Red coleworts. Red kale. 
