TETRADYNAMIA. SILIQCJOSA. Sinapis. 785 
leafless, ascending: pods quadrangular, "beak with one to three 
seeds. E.) 
{Hook. FI Lond. 205— E. Bot. 962. E.)— Light/. 15. 1, at p. 347 —Pet. 46. 
7— Dill. Elth. 111. 13,5, segments entire. 
{Root tapering, long, woody. Stems six or eight inches high, when very 
luxuriant taller, and branched. Flowers corymbose. Petals pale yellow, 
veined, exceeding the calyx , which is hairy at the top. Herb when bruised 
fetid. Sm. E.) 
(Dwarf Sea Cabbage. E.) Isle of Man Cabbage. (Welsh: Berwr 
Mon, a Manaw. E.) B. Monensis. Huds. With. Br. Sisymbrium Mo - 
nense. Linn. Lightf. FI. Brit. Sea shores in sandy soil. In the Isle of 
Man, between Ramsey and the town: also at Sella Fields Sea-bank, 
Cumberland; between Marsh Grange and the Isle of Walney, and near 
Abermeney Ferry, Anglesey. Ray. Isles of Bute, Skye, and Arran, and 
in Cantire. Lightfoot. (Confined to the western shores of Scotland. 
Hooker. E.) P. May—July.* 
SINA'PIS.f Cal. expanding horizontally : Petals upright: 
Glands between the shorter stamens and the pistil, and 
between the longer stamens and the calyx : Pod beaked, 
two-valved. 
S. arven'sis. Pods with many angles, tumid, longer than the two- 
edged beak : (leaves toothed, ovate, or lyrate. E.) 
Curt. 321— FI. Dan. 753— {E. Bot. 1748. E.)— Fuchs. 257 —J. B. ii. 844— 
Dod. 675. 1— Ger. Em. 233. 2— Ger. 199— Lob. Obs. 99. 1, and Ic. i. 198. 
1 —Park. 862. 3—H. Ox. iii. 3. 7— Pet. 45. 12. 
(One to two feet high. Stem and leaves harsh with short scattered bris¬ 
tles ; the former often purplish ; the bristles of the leaves mostly on the 
ribs or fibres of the under side. Petals yellow, without veins. Calyx 
yellowish. Pod with a beak nearly half its length, and both, in our spe¬ 
cimens, free from bristles. E.) 
Wild Mustard. Charlock. Corn Kale. (Irish: Gas an chunnaghta. 
Welsh: Cedw gwyllt. E.) Corn-fields and borders of corn-fields. 
A. May 4: 
* (la places where cattle graze, the plant is always eaten down to the root ; and 
probably in poor sandy soil, especially near the sea, it might be cultivated to advantage. 
It bears seed abundantly. Hooker. E.) The different species of Brassica afford nourish¬ 
ment to Papilio Brassica , Rapes, and Napi; Phalcsna fidiginosa ; Aphis Brassica; ; 
and Chrysomela Hyoseyami. 
+ (From aivw, painfully to affect; wirag, the eyes; as by its pungency. E.) 
t The Scandinavians boil and eat this herb as cabbage, and in Ireland the tender tops are 
collected for the same purpose.—Cows, goats, and swine eat it. Sheep are very fond of it. 
Horses generally refuse it. (The seeds are often found mixed with corn, but may be 
completely separated by skreening. Under the general name of Charlock , pronounced 
Kedlock in the midland counties, farmers usually comprehend S . arvensis and nigra , 
Raphanus raphanistrum , and Brassica napus , as one or other most abound ; but the 
former is the more noxious weed, and should be carefully extirpated. Sold by the name of 
Durham Mustard, and said to be inferior to the produce of S. nigra. Though the greater 
part of the vegetable excrescences, termed galls, are caused by insects of the genus Cynips , 
they do not always originate from this tribe. Some are produced by beetles, as those on 
the roots of S. arvensis, which are inhabited by the larvae of Curculio contractus , and 
Rynchwnus assimilis , according to Kirby and Spence. E.) 
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