3. N. terrestre, leaves pinnatifid, unequally toothed; root tapering; flowers yellow, the petals scarcely so long as the calyx; pod curved. Annual Yellow Cress.

Hab. Watery places. About Ladykirk and Norham, Mr
W. Baird. Sides of the Tweed from West Ord to Nor
ham, plentiful. In the pond below Calf-hill; and at the
Cow-port. June, July. O

The root is simple and spindle-shaped; but in a specimen,
which measured upwards of two feet in height, we found
it a dense bunch of fibres. The stem is frequently pur-
plish, as are also the leaves, which are occasionally some-
what bristly on the margins. Pods short, cylindrical,
thick, on patent curved stalks longer than themselves,
tipped with a short style crowned with a peltate stigma.
The plant rarely exceeds a foot in height, and is often
much less.

201. SISYMBRIUM.

1. S. officinale, stem rough with reflexed bristles; leaves runcinate, hairy; flowers small, pale yellow; pods pressed close to the main stalk, awl-shaped, downy. Common Hedge-mustard. Hab. Wastes and road-sides. June, July.

2. S. Irio, leaves runcinate, toothed, smooth as well as the stem; flowers yellow; pods erect, long, slender. London Rocket. Hab. On the walls of Berwick-upon-Tweed, Ray. Most abundant at the Pier-gate. July, Aug. O

3. S. Sophia, leaves doubly pinnatifid, a little hairy; flowers small, greenish-yellow, the petals smaller than the calyx. Flixweed.

Hab. Waste ground near villages. About East-Ord, Etall, and Bamborough, Thomp. July-Sept. O

202. BARBAREA.

1. B. vulgaris, smooth; lower leaves lyrate, the terminal lobe roundish; upper obovate, toothed; flowers yellow; pods an inch long. Yellow Rocket.

Hab. Sides of the Tweed and Whiteadder; also at hedge bottoms in moist situations, frequent. A double flowered variety is common in gardens. May-Aug.

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2. B. præcox, smooth; lower leaves lyrate; upper deeply pin. natifid, with linear-oblong entire segments; flowers small, yellow; pods about three inches long. Early Winter-cress.

Hab. Hedge-side between Wooler and Earl. April-Oct.

Cultivated in many gardens as a salad-herb, under the name of American Cress.

203. ERYSIMUM.

1. E. Alliaria, smooth; leaves heart-shaped, broadly toothed, stalked; flowers white. Garlick-mustard, or Jack-by-the-hedge.

Hab. Hedge-sides and shady lanes. Near Lint-hill, Berwickshire, Rev. A. Baird. Near Haggerston. North side of the Tweed above the Union Bridge. May, June. O

The whole plant scents strongly of garlic. It is occasionally used as a sallad. "When gathered, as it approaches the flowering state, boiled separately, and then eaten to boiled mutton, it certainly forms a most desirable potherb; and to any kind of salted meat, an excellent green." NEILL.

204. CHEIRANTHUS.

1. Ch. fruticulosus, stem shrubby; branches angular; leaves lanceolate, acute, most hoary beneath, with simple close hairs; style prominent; flowers yellow. Wild Wall-flower.

Hab. On the ruins of all the old castles in the neighbour-
hood;
also on Spindlestone rocks. June. Y

205. ARABIS.

1. A. Thaliana, stem branched; leaves hairy, more or less toothed, radical ones stalked, oblong; flowers small, white; stamens not much shorter than the petals; pods pointing upwards, slender, smooth. Common Wall-cress.

Hab. Walls and dry banks, not common. In the ravine
above Burnmouth. Amongst the debris of Kyloe Rocks.
Abundant on walls below the Chain Bridge, and about
Warren. April, May.

206. BRASSICA.

1. B. Napus, root spindle-shaped; leaves smooth, upper ones lanceolate, heart-shaped at their base, clasping the stem, lower ones lyrate, toothed; flowers yellow. Rape-seed.

Hab. Corn-fields and road-sides occasionally, but not any where truly wild. May.

"Cultivated for the oil produced by the seeds; and the seeds, by pressure, are formed into cakes, which, after the extraction of the oil, are useful for manure, as well as for fattening cattle."

2. B. Rapa, root stem-like, fleshy, orbicular, depressed; radical leaves lyrate, rough, those of the stem smooth, the uppermost entire; flowers yellow. Common Turnip.

Hab. Cultivated fields and their borders, but not wild.
April.

As an object of agriculture, the Turnip was introduced into
this country by Lord TOWNSEND, in the reign of GEO. I.

207. SINAPIS.

1. S. arvensis, rough; leaves toothed, partly lyrate or hastate; flowers yellow; pods with many angles, rugged, longer than their own awl-shaped beak. Wild Mustard.

Hab. Corn-fields, too common. May. O

2. S. alba, rough; leaves lyrate; flowers yellow; pods bristly, rugged, spreading, shorter than their own flat two-edged beak. White Mustard.

Hab. Corn-fields, common. June. O

Cultivated for the sake of the young herbs, which are used in sallads; and for the seeds, which have long been a popular remedy in rheumatism, and of late have become fashionable in dyspeptic complaints.

3. S. nigra, lower leaves lyrate, upper linear-lanceolate, en. tire, smooth, more or less pendulous; flowers yellow, small; pods quadrangular, smooth, slightly beaked, close-pressed to the stalk. Common Mustard.

Hab. Fields and waste grounds.

"North side of the

Whitesider from the boundary to Edrington Craige, pienchiul. Thomp. Ord Fields sparingly, Dr ThompSeu June. O

Twbie-mustard is prepared from the seeds of this species.

4 X made, stem smooth; leaves once or twice pinnatifid, De appermost individed; dowers large, pale yellow; pods erect, a grading siks near, compressed, slightly beaked; seeds Ful Musard

Hak On the wails of Berwick, Ray; where it still grows.
Jules J

208 RAPHANUS.

2 X Sipiumorum, lares ynate, rough; flowers large, pale vellow Yetki pois ented, striated, of one cell. Charlock. Hoa Com-deus June, July. O

→ À 300SOME VONE, the without profit sucks

The soul's Sulity to wilesome flowers"

The seeds, mixed with bread, are said, by LINNEUS and others, to produce a severe spasmodic disease, which, in wet seasons, is common in Sweden.

CLASS XVI.

MONADELPHIA.

"Not a flower

But shows some touch in freckle, streak, or stain,
Of HIS unrivalled pencil. He inspires

Their balmy odours, and imparts their hues,
And bathes their eyes with nectar, and includes,
In grains as countless as the sea-side sands,
The forms, with which He sprinkles all the earth.
Happy who walks with Him! whom what he finds
Of flavour, or of scent in fruit or flower,
Or what he views of beautiful or grand
In Nature, from the broad majestic oak
To the green blade, that twinkles in the sun,
Prompts with remembrance of a present GOD.
His presence, who made all so fair, perceived,
Makes all still fairer."

COWPER.

I. PENTANDRIA.

209. ERODIUM. Style 1; fruit beaked, of 5 aggregate capsules, each tipped with a spiral awn, bearded on the inside.

II. DECANDRIA.

210. GERANIUM. Style 1; fruit beaked, of 5 aggregate capsules, each tipped with a recurved naked awn.