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BRASSICA app* Mustard, rape* etc. 
Mustard oil is derived from the seeds .of various species of Braiaioa 
( Slnapis ), Chinese colza oil from B* campestris L*, and rape oil probably 
from B* napua L* These oils have 'often been used im eaaulaioaa as inaeoti- 
cides and occasionally as repellents* 
CAPSELLA BURSA-PASTORIS (L*) Medic* Synonym j Bursa buraa-paatoria 
(L*) Britton* Shepherds-purse* 
Extracts of the entire plant were repellent to the Japanese beetle* — 
Metzger and Grant ( 277 ), 
ERYSIMUM i-EROFSKIANUM Fisch. & Mey. Afghan bittercress. 
Full-strength extracts from the entire plant *ere repellent to the 
Japanese beetle* — Metzger and Grant ( 277 ) * 
LEPIDIUM RUDERALE L. Peppergrass* 
In Austria this plant was recommended as effective against flea 
beetles* In Japan it was dried and powdered and used as an insecticide* — 
Anonymous (6) • 
Fumigation with this plant in hothouses was recommended against 
aphids and mites* When the leaves were dried in the shade and burned 
between sheets of paper soaked in nitrio acid, they caused a very dense 
smoke*— Binnenthal (57, p* 69)* 
LEPIDIUM VTRGINICUM L. Wild peppergrass. 
Extraots were not repellent to the Japanese beetle*— Metzger and 
Grant (277)* 
BROMELIACEAE 
(Pineapple Family) 
ANANAS SATIVUS Sohult. Pineapple. 
In olfactory tests to find an attractive essential oil that could 
be added to a poisoned bait, the oil of pineapple was found strongly 
attractive to the oriental cockroach* An attractive bait was made with 
6 gm* of gelatin, 200 oc* of dilute beef broth, 0*5 gra» of mercuric 
chloride, and 1 drop of oil of pineapple* — Cole ( 101 ) » 
TILLANDSIA USNOIDES L. 
This species contains rotenone* — Scarone (553). 
