504 BOTANY AS APPLIED TO VETERINARY SCIENCE. 
One of the evil consequences of castration is that of 
champignion, which by the way I never saw after the other 
method of operating. I have had many cases of champignion 
brought to me for treatment after castration by the clams. 
Perhaps the present is a good opportunity for stating that 
I have met with several horses with stringhalt which I kneio 
to have had scirrhous cord. If other practitioners were to turn 
their attention to this point, it might possibly lead to some 
satisfactory result. 
These remarks were hastily thrown together after reading 
the papers referred to, and which I did with much interest, 
notwithstanding I do not concur with the statements that 
are made. Did time permit, I should like to extend my 
observations upon castration, and perhaps at some other and 
more favorable opportunity, I may do so. Should these 
remarks have the effect of causing a few to think, I feel 
assured that good must result. 
BOTANY AS APPLIED TO VETERINARY SCIENCE. 
By W. Watson, M.R.C.V.S., Rugby. 
(Continued from p. 390.) 
Brassica oleracea (Cabbage). 
“ Leaves fleshy , glaucous , waved , lobed, partly lyrate, all quite 
smooth. Floivers pale yellow. Root fibrous 5 '— (Lindley). 
Next in importance to the turnip, for the large amount 
of valuable food it supplies both to man and animals, are the 
different varieties of cabbage. Like the turnip, it belongs to 
the natural order Crucifera and to the tribe Brassica. The 
wild cabbage, from which all our different varieties have been 
produced by cultivation^ is found in many parts of this 
country growing upon rocks and cliffs in the vicinity of the sea. 
It flowers in May or June, having small yellow flowers. Few 
would recognise in this bulky and almost worthless weed the 
original source of some of our most valuable foods and 
esculents. Jts cultivation has been much attended to from 
the earliest times, and it was held in high esteem, both as a 
food and medicine, by the Greeks and Romans. 
As most persons are familiar with the many varieties of 
the cabbage, I shall confine my remarks to that kind which is 
most commonly cultivated as food for animals, viz., the 
