774 TETRADYNAMIA. SILIQUOSA. Barbarea. 
(BARBA'REA. Pod quadrangular, two-edged : Seeds in one 
row : Cal. erect: Glands within the shorter filaments. E.) 
B. vulga'ris. (Lower-leaves lyre-shaped, terminal segment nearly 
circular: upper leaves inversely egg-shaped, toothed. E.) 
(2?. Bot. 443. E.)— FI. Dan. 985— Wale. — Ger. 188— Fuchs. 746— J. B. ii. 
869— Trag. 101. 2 —Lonic. i. 165. 2 —Dod. 712. 1— Lob. Ohs. 104. 2, and 
Ic. i. 207. 2— Ger. Em. 243— Park. 820— H. Ox. iii. 5. 11 and 12— Pet. 
46. 1 —Matth. 572. 
Stems two feet high, strong, with about eight deep furrows, and as many 
sharp ridges. Leaves half embracing the stem, winged, the terminal 
leafit egg-shaped, notched. Calyx-leaves, in the flowers not yet ex¬ 
panded, green, and two of them larger, with a helmet-shaped hollow at 
the top. Pods an inch long, slender, somewhat cylindrical, slightly 
flatted> not very sensibly four-edged. ( Blossoms yellow, numerous, in 
rounded clusters, which afterwards elongate. E.) 
Bitter Winter-cress. Yellow Rocket. (Welsh: Berwr y gauaf. 
Barharea. Dod. Ger. Bauh. B. vulgaris. Br. in Ait. De Cand. Hook. 
Sm. Grev. Erysimum Barharea. Linn. Lightf. With. Willd. Oed. 
FI. Brit. E.) Banks on the sides of running streams, watery places, 
and sometimes in cultivated fields. In Devonshire, and plentiful in 
Launceston Castle, Cornwall. (Not very common in Scotland. Water 
of Leith. Dr. Parsons. More frequent about Glasgow. Hopkirk. E.) 
P. May—Oct.* 
(B. rn/rc'cox. Lower leaves lyre-shaped; upper deeply wing-cleft, 
with linear-oblong, entire segments. 
E. Bot. 1129 —Pet. 46. 2. 
Stem about eighteen inches high, in moist situations two feet. Badical- 
leaves very numerous, exactly like those of Nasturtium officinale. Flow¬ 
ers smaller and paler yellow than those of B. vulgaris. Pods nearly 
twice as long as in that species, exactly square, smooth, crowned with a 
very short permanent style. Calyx-leaves cohering, much broader than 
those of B. vulgaris. Sm. Slenderer than the preceding in every part. 
Hook. E.) 
Early Winter Cress. B. prcecox. Br. De Cand. Hook. Sm. Grev. 
Erysimum proecox. Willd. FI. Brit. E. Barharea (5. Linn. With. On a 
hill half a mile north of Teignmouth, also near Dawlish, Kingsteignton, 
Honiton, and Bovey Tracey. Rev. Dr. Beeke, Dean of Bristol. About 
Settle. W. Hustler, Esq. in WhitakePs Craven. St. Bernard’s Well. 
Mr. J. Stewart. Grev. Edin. B. May—Oct. E.)t 
* In Sweden the leaves are used in salads, early in spring, and late in autumn; also 
boiled as cale. It is sown in gardens as an early spring salad. Linn, and also in England, 
where it is called French Cress. St. Cows eat it. Horses and swine refuse it. Goats 
and sheep are not fond of it. (Smith considers the above notices as rather belonging to 
the following species.—With double blossoms, it frequently ornaments our gardens. A 
minute species of Tipula , or Gall-gnat, sometimes renders the flowers like a Hop-blossom ; 
but this metamorphosis does not strictly partake of the nature of galls, as it originates not 
from the egg, but from the larva, which, in the operation of extracting the seed in some 
way imparts a morbid action to the juices, causing the flower to expand unnaturally. E.) 
+ This herb is grateful in salads, tasting exactly like Nasturtium officinale, whereas 
B. vulgaris is mucilaginous, and of a nauseous bitter. 
