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1. Lepidium sativum. Garden-cress. 
Silicules orbiculate winged emarginate, leaves vari- 
ously divided or cut, branches not spinescent. 
Var. y . latifolium, Be Cand. Syst. II. 533. 
I IAB. A common weed in the mountains, and moist situations. 
FL. Throughout the year 
I his is said to have originally been indigenous to Persia, and 
the Island of Cyprus. It has long been cultivated in the gar- 
dens of Europe, and has become a very common weed in hilly 
situations, and even in the plains, where the climate is moist, of 
this Island. It is a favourite salad, and has the reputation of 
being antiscorbutic and antiphthisical. 
VIII. Biiassica. Cabbage , Turnip. 
Pod 2-valved (with a sterile 1-oc -seeded beak). 
Cotyledons conduplicate ( 0») Calyx erect. — 
Brown. 
Name , derived from the Celtic bresic a cabbage, according 
to Theis. 
1. Brassica oleracea. Cabbage. 
Leaves glaucous with pollen subcarnose repand or 
lobed very glabrous. 
Be Cand. Syst. II. 583. 
HAB. Cultivated. 
FL. ? 
The following varieties of this useful vegetable are cultivated 
in this Island: — 1. Bullata; the Savoy cabbage. 2. Capitata; 
including the following subvarieties or sorts ; a, rubra, the 
red cabbage ; b, depressa, the drum-head; c, conica, the 
sugar loaf, Battersea, and early York cabbages. 3. Caulorapa, 
the turnip stemmed cabbage. 4. Botrytis, including, a, 
cauli flora, the caulifloiver ; and b, asparagoides, the broccoli. 
There is a 5th variety, Acephala, of which one sort, ramosa 
or Brussels' sprouts, is occasionally cnltivated. Of these, the 
early York is the most hardy, and comes to the greatest per- 
fection. 
The Cabbage tribe is the most .ancient as well as the most 
extensive of all the classes of cultivated vegetables. The b. 
oleracea sylvestris, the original stock of this diversified race, 
grows naturally along the sea-shore at the foot of Mount Athos 
in Greece, along the West coast of England, and in the Firth of 
Forth in Scotland. In this part of the world, we are indebted 
for our supply of seeds of the different varieties to England and 
