Blair Collection > Flora Scotica: or, a systematic arrangement, in the Linnaean method, of the native plants of Scotland and the Hebrides > Volume 1

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TETRADYNAMIA SILIQIJOSA. 361
open at the top, and two of them gibbous at the
bafe : the petals are yellow and vein'd : the JJli-
qu^e are fmooth, or (lightly hairy, and longer than
the rojlrtm: the feeds are acrid and fufcous,
eight or nine in a pod.
The young plants, before they flower, are boiled
and eaten as greens in feveral parts oi England..
S. filiquis hifpidis, roftro obliquo longiffimo enfifor-
mi. Lin. fyfi. nat. 445. .S^. pi 93:^. (Ger. em.
14^4' f' 4. i^£i' herb. t. 45. /. 10. Blackivell. t. 29)
White Muftard. Anglis.
It is fometimes found in hedges and waile places,
near towns and villages, but is probably to be
confidered only as the outcaft of gardens. O.
VII.
The flowers are yellow, the peduncles llriated :
xkitfiliquie are white, hairy, fliorter than the rof-
irum^ and Jiave generally three knobs or protu-
berances over the feeds : tlie feeds are yellowilh,
acrid, and three or four in a pod.
The feminal leaves of this plant, with thofe of the
Lepidium fativum Lin. afford a well-known fallad
in the fpring.
SIN APIS filiquis glabris tetragonis raceme ap-
preffis. Lin.fyji. nat. p. 445. Sp. pi. 933. {Ger.
em. 244./. I. Moris, hift. f. 3. /. 3./. r. or dims
Juperioris. Pet. herh. t. 45./. 11. /. Baub. IL p.
855, cum bona icone & defcriptione Blackwell t,
446)
Common